The 2017
World Women's Curling Championship (branded as CPT World Women's Curling Championship 2017 for sponsorship reasons) was a
curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ...
event held between March 18–26 at the
Capital Indoor Stadium
The Capital Indoor Stadium () is an indoor arena in 56 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, China that was built in 1968. It hosted matches between national table tennis teams of China and the United States in 1971; these matches were part of the ...
in
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
. The winning
Rachel Homan
Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curling, curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Canadian junior champion, a five-time Scotties Tourna ...
rink from Canada was the first team to go through a women's world championship undefeated since the event began in 1979, winning 13 games through the round robin, playoffs and final.
Runners-up Russia took their first silver medal on this event.
Qualification
The following nations are qualified to participate in the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship:
* (host country)
*Two teams from the Americas zone
**
** (winner of the
2017 Americas Challenge)
*Eight teams from the
2016 European Curling Championships
**
**
**
**
**
**
**
** (winner of the
World Challenge Games
The world is the totality of entities, the whole of reality, or everything that exists. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique, while others talk of a "plu ...
)
*One team from the
2016 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships
The 2016 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships were held from November 5 to 12 at the Gyeongbuk Uiseong Curling Training Center in Uiseong-eup, Uiseong County, South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country i ...
**
Teams
WCT ranking
Year to date
World Curling Tour
The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male, female, and Doubles curling, mixed doubles curlers in the world.
History
The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later ass ...
order of merit ranking for each team prior to the event.
CurlingZone
/ref>
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Round-robin results
All draw times are listed in China Standard Time
The time in China follows a single standard UTC offset, time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones. It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only ...
(UTC+8
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.
It is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time, mainly due to China's large population, with an estimated population ...
).
Draw 1
''Saturday, March 18, 13:00''
Draw 2
''Saturday, March 18, 19:00''
Draw 3
''Sunday, March 19, 9:00''
Draw 4
''Sunday, March 19, 14:00''
Draw 5
''Sunday, March 19, 19:00''
Draw 6
''Monday, March 20, 9:00''
Draw 7
''Monday, March 20, 14:00''
Draw 8
''Monday, March 20, 19:00''
Draw 9
''Tuesday, March 21, 9:00''
Draw 10
''Tuesday, March 21, 14:00''
Draw 11
''Tuesday, March 21, 19:00''
Draw 12
''Wednesday, March 22, 9:00''
Draw 13
''Wednesday, March 22, 14:00''
Draw 14
''Wednesday, March 22, 19:00''
Draw 15
''Thursday, March 23, 9:00''
Draw 16
''Thursday, March 23, 14:00''
Draw 17
''Thursday, March 23, 19:00''
Playoffs
1 vs. 2
''Friday, March 24, 19:00''
3 vs. 4
''Saturday, March 25, 14:00''
Semifinal
''Saturday, March 25, 19:00''
Bronze medal game
''Sunday, March 26, 10:00''
Gold medal game
''Sunday, March 26, 15:00''
Statistics
Top 5 player percentages
''After Round Robin; minimum 5 games''
Perfect games
References
;General
*
;Specific
{{World championships in 2017
World Women's Curling Championship
March 2017 sports events in Asia
2017 in Beijing
2017 in women's curling
Sports competitions in Beijing
2017 in Chinese women's sport
Qualification tournaments for the 2018 Winter Olympics
International curling competitions hosted by China
Women's curling competitions in China