2020 World Women's Curling Championship | |
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Host city | Prince George, Canada |
Arena | CN Centre |
Dates | March 14–22 (cancelled) |
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The 2020 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship presented by Nature's Bounty for sponsorship reasons) was scheduled to be held from March 14 to 22 at the CN Centre in Prince George, Canada. [1] [2] On March 12, 2020, following the recommendations of Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry, the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] [4]
The event was set to be the first event to start gathering points towards the 2022 Winter Olympic Qualification. [5] Upon cancellation, the qualifying process was left unclear.
The following nations qualified to participate in the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship: [6]
Event | Vacancies | Qualified |
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Host nation | 1 | Canada |
2019 Americas Challenge | 1 | United States |
2019 European Curling Championships | 7 [7] | Sweden Scotland Switzerland Russia Germany Czech Republic Denmark |
2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships | 2 [8] | China Japan |
2020 World Qualification Event | 2 | South Korea Italy |
TOTAL | 13 |
The World Curling Federation World Ranking tracks and lists the success of all Member Associations. [9]
Member Associations | Rank | Points |
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Sweden | 1 | 81.569 |
South Korea | 2 | 65.907 |
Canada | 3 | 63.382 |
Switzerland | 4 | 59.559 |
Japan | 5 | 56.520 |
Russia | 6 | 55.588 |
Scotland | 7 | 50.098 |
United States | 8 | 45.441 |
China | 9 | 40.147 |
Denmark | 10 | 27.059 |
Czech Republic | 11 | 19.593 |
Germany | 12 | 19.338 |
Italy | 13 | 13.284 |
The teams were to be: [10]
Year to date World Curling Tour order of merit ranking for each team prior to the event. [11]
Nation (Skip) | Rank | Points |
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Sweden (Hasselborg) | 1 | 467.461 |
Canada (Einarson) | 2 | 420.070 |
Japan (Fujisawa) | 4 | 342.872 |
Switzerland (Stern) | 6 | 333.591 |
Scotland (Muirhead) | 9 | 283.984 |
United States (Peterson) | 10 | 245.428 |
Russia (Kovaleva) | 12 | 237.658 |
South Korea (Gim) | 17 | 194.967 |
China (Han) | 26 | 149.539 |
Germany (Jentsch) | 30 | 135.678 |
Italy (Zappone) | 76 | 46.404 |
Czech Republic (Kubešková) | 79 | 45.753 |
Denmark (Halse) | 148 | 12.838 |
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