The qualification event for the curling tournament at the
2014 Winter Olympics
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Opening ro ...
was held from December 10 to 15, 2013 at the
BLZ Arena in
Füssen
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,
Germany
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. The top two teams from the qualification event qualified their nations to participate in the Olympics. The qualification event was open to any nations that earned
qualification points at the 2012 or 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 Doubles curling, mixed doubles championships, as ...
or participated at the 2011 World Curling Championships (the South Korea men's team and the Norway women's team).
Competition format
In both the men's and the women's tournaments, the teams played a single round robin, and at its conclusion, the top three teams advanced to the playoffs. In the playoffs, the first and second seeds played a game to determine the first team to advance to the main Olympic tournament. The loser of this game, along with the third seed, played a game to determine the second team to advance to the main Olympic tournament.
Men
Teams
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Round-robin results
All draw times are listed in
Central European Time
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The UTC offset, time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00.
It is used in most parts of Eur ...
(
UTC+1
+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. This time is used in:
*Central European Time
* West Africa Time
* Western European Summer Time
**Brit ...
).
Draw 1
''Tuesday, December 10, 16:00''
Draw 2
''Wednesday, December 11, 8:00''
Draw 3
''Wednesday, December 11, 16:00''
Draw 4
''Thursday, December 12, 9:00''
Draw 5
''Thursday, December 12, 19:00''
Draw 6
''Friday, December 13, 12:00''
Draw 7
''Friday, December 13, 20:00''
Tiebreaker
''Saturday, December 14, 16:00''
Playoffs
First qualifier
''Saturday, December 14, 20:00''
Second qualifier
''Sunday, December 15, 12:30''
Women
Teams
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Round-robin results
All draw times are listed in
Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
The UTC offset, time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00.
It is used in most parts of Eur ...
(
UTC+1
+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. This time is used in:
*Central European Time
* West Africa Time
* Western European Summer Time
**Brit ...
).
Draw 1
''Tuesday, December 10, 20:00''
Draw 2
''Wednesday, December 11, 12:00''
Draw 3
''Wednesday, December 11, 20:00''
Draw 4
''Thursday, December 12, 14:00''
Draw 5
''Friday, December 13, 8:00''
Draw 6
''Friday, December 13, 16:00''
Draw 7
''Saturday, December 14, 8:00''
Tiebreaker
''Saturday, December 14, 16:00''
Playoffs
First qualifier
''Sunday, December 15, 8:30''
Second qualifier
''Sunday, December 15, 16:30''
References
;General
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;Specific
External links
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qualification
Qualification may refer to:
Processes
* Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS), a competitive contract procurement process established by the United States Congress
* Process qualification, ensures that manufacturing and production processes can ...
Winter Olympics qualification
Qualification events for the 2014 Winter Olympics
2013 in German sport
International curling competitions hosted by Germany