18-03-2016, 01:13
(This post was last modified: 18-03-2016, 01:14 by ritchiebaby.)
The 2016 Ford World Womens Curling Championships are being held in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada, starting on Saturday 19 March. This will be the second time that Swift Current has been the venue, the last time being in 2010, when Eve Muirhead's Scotland team won the Silver Medals.
The twelve teams who have qualified are: hosts Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Scotland, defending champions Switzerland, Sweden and the USA. They will battle it out in seventeen sessions of round-robin play, until the evening of Thursday 24th March. The Gold/Silver and Bronze Medal finals will take place on Sunday 27 March.
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David Hay (coach), Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams and Sarah Reid after winning the Scottish Championships.
With the addition of alternate player Rachel Hannen, who played in the World Juniors a week ago in Denmark, these are Scotland's representatives for the next week or so. Eve Muirhead won Gold in these Championships 3 years ago in Latvia and also Bronze in the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Scotland's first game is on Saturday evening against Olympic silver medallists Sweden, followed by two games on Sunday, against Korea and Germany.
The twelve teams who have qualified are: hosts Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Scotland, defending champions Switzerland, Sweden and the USA. They will battle it out in seventeen sessions of round-robin play, until the evening of Thursday 24th March. The Gold/Silver and Bronze Medal finals will take place on Sunday 27 March.
David Hay (coach), Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams and Sarah Reid after winning the Scottish Championships.
With the addition of alternate player Rachel Hannen, who played in the World Juniors a week ago in Denmark, these are Scotland's representatives for the next week or so. Eve Muirhead won Gold in these Championships 3 years ago in Latvia and also Bronze in the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Scotland's first game is on Saturday evening against Olympic silver medallists Sweden, followed by two games on Sunday, against Korea and Germany.
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