The curling competition of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the
Ice Cube Curling Center
The Ice Cube Curling Center ( rus, Керлинговый Центр Ледяной куб) is a 3,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Sochi, Russia, that opened in 2012. It is a component of the Sochi Olympic Park.
It hosted all the curling events ...
, nicknamed "the Ice Cube". It is the sixth time that
curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns slidi ...
was on the Olympic program. In both the men's and women's competitions, ten nations competed.
These two events took place from 10 to 21 February 2014.
The Canadian women's team went through the whole competition undefeated, the first time this has happened in an Olympic women's curling competition. Additionally, both the Canadian men's and women's teams won the gold medal, becoming the first country to do so in the history of the event.
Medal summary
Medal table
Medal events
Qualification
Qualification to the curling tournaments at the Winter Olympics was determined through two methods. Nations could qualify teams by earning qualification points from performances at the 2012 and 2013
World Curling Championships
The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and mixed doubles championships, as well as men's ...
. Teams could also qualify through an Olympic qualification event which was held in the autumn of 2013. Seven nations qualified teams via World Championship qualification points, while two nations qualified through the qualification event. As host nation, Russia qualified teams automatically, thus making a total of ten teams per gender in the curling tournaments.
Participating nations
Twelve nations participated, with the number of athletes participating per nation in parentheses.
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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Results summary
Men
Round robin
The men's curling competition began with a
round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Me ...
, where every team played every other team. The top four teams from the round robin advanced to the playoffs.
;Standings
;Results
Playoffs
The top four teams at the conclusion of the round robin advanced to the playoffs. The fourth seed was determined by a
tiebreaker game between Norway and Great Britain, which Great Britain won with a score of 6–5.
;Bronze medal game
''Friday, 21 February, 12:30 pm''
;Gold medal game
''Friday, 21 February, 5:30 pm''
Women
Round robin
The women's curling competition began with a
round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Me ...
, where every team played every other team. The top four teams from the round robin advanced to the playoffs.
;Standings
;Results
Playoffs
The top four teams at the conclusion of the round robin advanced to the playoffs.
;Bronze medal game
''Thursday, 20 February, 12:30''
;Gold medal game
''Thursday, 20 February, 17:30''
References
External links
Official Results Book – Curling
{{2013–14 curling season
2014 Winter Olympics events
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2014 in curling
International curling competitions hosted by Russia