Wang Zhiyu (; born August 24, 1996, in

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) is a Chinese curler. He currently plays

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on the Chinese men's curling team skipped by

Ma Xiuyue Ma Xiuyue (; born May 21, 1991) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. He won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and represented China at the 2022 Winter Olympics, skipping the men's curling team. Career Ma represented Chi ...

Career

As a junior curler, Wang threw last rocks for the Chinese junior men's team at the

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and

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, skipping the team in 2018. In 2017, Wang, skip Yuan Ming Jie, and front end Li Hong Bo and Kang Xin Long finished with a 2–7 record. In 2018, Wang led his team of Tian Jiafeng, Wang Xiangkun, and Zhang Zezhong to a 3–6 record. The team missed the playoffs in both tournaments. After juniors, Wang joined the Chinese men's national team in 2018, playing

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on the team, which was skipped by

Zou Qiang Zou Qiang (; born 13 August 1991 in Yichun) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. Career Juniors Zou skipped the Chinese team (which also consisted of Shao Zhilin, Zhang Tianyu and Liang Shuming), at the 2013 Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Champion ...

. The team first played in the

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, where they won a silver medal. The team qualified for the

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, finishing with a 2–10 record. Also that season, Wang played in the

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leg of the

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as second for

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. The team lost in the event's final to Canada's

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. Team Zou represented China at the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. There, the team finished with a 7–2 round robin record. Following the round robin, the team lost in the semifinal to Japan but won the bronze medal game against New Zealand. The team then had to play in the

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to qualify for the World Championship, which they won. This secured China a spot at the cancelled

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. On the

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that season, Team Zou won the 2019

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event. Because of the

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, most of the

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was cancelled. However, the

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took place in a fan-less bubble in

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, with the teams qualifying for the 2020 Worlds qualifying for the event. At the 2021 Worlds, the team finished in last place with a 2–11 record. The next season, Wang was selected to be the second on the Chinese men's team for the

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, held in

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. The team also included skip

Xu Jingtao Xu Jingtao (; born August 5, 1993, in Harbin) is a Chinese curler. Career As a junior curler, Xu played lead for the Chinese men's team (skipped by Jiang Dongxu) at the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships, finishing with a 1–8 record. He ...

and

Jiang Dongxu Jiang Dongxu (; born March 3, 1993) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. He represented China at the 2022 Winter Olympics as the alternate on the Chinese men's team skipped by Ma Xiuyue. He also won a silver medal at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling ...

. Despite not playing a single international competition before the Games, the team fared quite well, finishing the round robin with a 4–5 record. This included defeating higher-seeded teams such as Switzerland's

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, Norway's

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, and Italy's

Joël Retornaz Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022. Retornaz gained sudden renown in Ital ...

. Ultimately, they finished in a four-way tie for fifth place; however, their head to head wins over Switzerland and Norway placed them alone in fifth place at the end of the competition.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Zhiyu Living people 1996 births Chinese male curlers Sportspeople from Harbin Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for China