2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championship

2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championship
Host city	Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Arena	Richmond Curling Centre
Dates	March 4–12
Winner	China
Skip	Wang Haitao
Third	Zhang Shuaiyu
Second	Yang Jinqiao
Lead	Li Nana
Alternate	Zhang Mingliang
Coach	Li Jianrui, Yue Qingshuang
Finalist	Canada (Ideson)
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The 2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held from March 4 to 12 at the Richmond Curling Centre in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. ^[1] The event was held in conjunction with the 2023 World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

Qualification

The following nations qualified to participate in the 2023 World Wheelchair Curling Championship: ^[2]

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	1	Canada
2021 World Wheelchair Curling Championship	7	China   Sweden   United States   Scotland   Norway   Latvia   South Korea
2022 World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship	3 [3]	Czech Republic   Denmark   Germany   Japan
Emergency Ruling Replacement	1 [4]	Italy
TOTAL	12

Teams

The teams are listed as follows: ^[5]

Canada	China	Czech Republic	Denmark
Fourth: Jon Thurston Third: Ina Forrest Second: Gil Dash Skip: Mark Ideson Alternate: Marie Wright	Skip: Wang Haitao Third: Zhang Shuaiyu Second: Yang Jinqiao Lead: Li Nana Alternate: Zhang Mingliang	Skip: Dana Selnekovičová Third: Martin Tluk Second: Milan Bartůněk Lead: Radek Musílek	Skip: Kenneth Ørbæk Third: Michaell Jensen Second: Niels Nielsen Lead: Sussie Nielsen
Italy	Japan	Latvia	Norway
Skip: Egidio Marchese Third: Fabrizio Bich Second: Sergio de Florian Lead: Orietta Berto Alternate: Angela Menardi	Skip: Takashi Sakataya Third: Kazuhiro Kashiwabara Second: Hiromi Takahashi Lead: Kana Matsuda Alternate: Yoku Akazawa	Fourth: Sergejs Djačenko Third: Agris Lasmans Skip: Ojārs Briedis Lead: Ieva Melle Alternate: Linda Meijere	Skip: Jostein Stordahl Third: Ole Fredrik Syversen Second: Geir Arne Skogstad Lead: Mia Larsen Sveberg Alternate: Ingrid Djupskaas
Scotland	South Korea	Sweden	United States
Fourth: Gregor Ewan Skip: Hugh Nibloe Second: Gary Logan Lead: Joanna Butterfield Alternate: Meggan Dawson-Farrell	Skip: Lee Hyeon-chul Third: Yang Hui-tae Second: Jang Jae-hyuk Lead: Cho Eun-geon Alternate: Min Yeong-nam	Skip: Viljo Petersson-Dahl Third: Ronny Persson Second: Sabina Johansson Lead: Johanna Glennert Alternate: Aasa Lie	Fourth: Matthew Thums Skip: Stephen Emt Second: Shawn Sadowski Lead: Laura Dwyer Alternate: Batoyun Uranchimeg

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings ^[6]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams relegated to 2024 B Championship

Country	Skip	W	L	W–L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	DSC
China	Wang Haitao	10	1	–	75	28	43	25	6	18	105.20
Canada	Mark Ideson	9	2	–	79	43	43	31	1	19	97.25
South Korea	Lee Hyeon-chul	8	3	–	72	47	42	37	3	15	98.78
United States	Stephen Emt	7	4	–	64	60	38	39	2	14	121.25
Sweden	Viljo Petersson-Dahl	6	5	–	65	62	34	38	2	12	127.17
Scotland	Hugh Nibloe	5	6	2–0	57	60	39	38	1	17	141.94
Norway	Jostein Stordahl	5	6	1–1	63	63	40	36	4	16	105.74
Czech Republic	Dana Selnekovičová	5	6	0–2	61	67	40	38	1	11	141.99
Latvia	Ojārs Briedis	4	7	–	50	73	37	43	0	13	160.00
Italy	Egidio Marchese	3	8	–	71	85	39	41	2	16	164.13
Denmark	Kenneth Ørbæk	2	9	1–0	47	90	30	46	1	9	119.66
Japan	Takashi Sakataya	2	9	0–1	51	77	33	46	3	9	124.23

Round Robin Summary Table

Pos.	Country													Record
2	Canada	—	4–8	8–2	7–3	6–4	7–4	7–6	10–3	8–1	3–7	13–1	6–4	9–2
1	China	8–4	—	7–2	11–2	6–2	7–2	4–3	5–1	9–2	4–7	8–2	6–1	10–1
8	Czech Republic	2–8	2–7	—	11–6	10–6	3–7	5–2	5–9	3–9	6–3	4–7	10–3	5–6
11	Denmark	3–7	2–11	6–11	—	2–7	10–5	6–7	1–9	L–W	1–13	8–7	4–7	2–9
10	Italy	4–6	2–6	6–10	7–2	—	9–10	4–8	15–4	9–6	4–10	3–12	8–11	3–8
12	Japan	4–7	2–7	7–3	5–10	10–9	—	7–8	2–7	2–6	4–6	4–7	4–7	2–9
9	Latvia	6–7	3–4	2–5	7–6	8–4	8–7	—	2–11	6–3	4–6	1–13	3–7	4–7
7	Norway	3–10	1–5	9–5	9–1	4–15	7–2	11–2	—	5–6	6–7	1–5	7–5	5–6
6	Scotland	1–8	2–9	9–3	W–L	6–9	6–2	3–6	6–5	—	4–6	10–1	4–7	5–6
3	South Korea	7–3	7–4	3–6	13–1	10–4	6–4	6–4	7–6	6–4	—	3–6	4–5	8–3
5	Sweden	1–13	2–8	7–4	7–8	12–3	7–4	13–1	5–1	1–10	6–3	—	4–7	6–5
4	United States	4–6	1–6	3–10	7–4	11–8	7–4	7–3	5–7	7–4	5–4	7–4	—	7–4

Round robin results

All draws times are listed in Pacific Time (UTC−08:00). ^[7]

Draw 1

Saturday, March 4, 12:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 4 7   Denmark (Ørbæk) 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 8 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Norway (Stordahl) 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 7   United States (Emt) 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 5 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final   Canada (Ideson) 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 4   China (Wang) 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 4 8

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   South Korea (Lee) 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 6   Scotland (Nibloe) 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Japan (Sakataya) 1 0 2 2 0 2 0 X 7   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 X 3 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Latvia (Briedis) 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 2 8   Italy (Marchese) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 4

Draw 2

Saturday, March 4, 7:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   United States (Emt) 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 7   Scotland (Nibloe) 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 4 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final   Italy (Marchese) 0 0 5 0 2 0 1 1 0 9   Japan (Sakataya) 2 1 0 3 0 3 0 0 1 10 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Denmark (Ørbæk) 0 1 0 0 0 0 X X 1   Norway (Stordahl) 2 0 2 1 3 1 X X 9

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   China (Wang) 1 1 0 2 0 0 4 X 8   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 X 2 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   South Korea (Lee) 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 6   Latvia (Briedis) 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Canada (Ideson) 3 0 1 3 1 0 X X 8   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 0 0 0 1 X X 2

Draw 3

Sunday, March 5, 12:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final   Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3   China (Wang) 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Scotland (Nibloe) 0 3 2 1 3 1 X X 10   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 1 0 0 0 0 0 X X 1 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 X 6   South Korea (Lee) 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 X 3

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Italy (Marchese) 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 X 7   Denmark (Ørbæk) 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 2 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   United States (Emt) 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 4   Canada (Ideson) 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 6 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Norway (Stordahl) 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 X 7   Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 X 2

Draw 4

Sunday, March 5, 7:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   South Korea (Lee) 1 0 0 4 0 2 3 X 10   Italy (Marchese) 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 X 4 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 X 2   China (Wang) 1 1 1 1 0 3 0 X 7 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Japan (Sakataya) 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 X 4   United States (Emt) 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 X 7

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Canada (Ideson) 2 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 7   Latvia (Briedis) 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 6 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 X 5   Norway (Stordahl) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Denmark (Ørbæk) 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 / L^   Scotland (Nibloe) 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 W ^  Denmark ran out of time, and therefore forfeited the match. [8]

Draw 5

Monday, March 6, 12:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Canada (Ideson) 2 0 0 3 0 2 0 X 7   Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 X 4 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   South Korea (Lee) 0 4 1 4 1 3 X X 13   Denmark (Ørbæk) 1 0 0 0 0 0 X X 1 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Scotland (Nibloe) 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 X 3   Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 X 6

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 5   Norway (Stordahl) 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 4 9 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Italy (Marchese) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 X 2   China (Wang) 0 0 3 1 0 0 2 X 6 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 4   United States (Emt) 3 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 7

Draw 6

Monday, March 6, 8:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Scotland (Nibloe) 1 0 0 3 0 4 1 X 9   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 X 3 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   United States (Emt) 3 0 1 0 2 0 5 0 11   Italy (Marchese) 0 3 0 1 0 3 0 1 8 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Norway (Stordahl) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 X 3   Canada (Ideson) 2 0 0 2 0 3 3 X 10

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 3 1 0 1 0 2 0 X 7   Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 X 4 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 2 0 0 2 2 0 7   Denmark (Ørbæk) 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 6 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   China (Wang) 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 4   South Korea (Lee) 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 7

Draw 7

Tuesday, March 7, 12:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Norway (Stordahl) 4 0 4 0 2 1 X X 11   Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 0 1 0 0 X X 2 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2   Scotland (Nibloe) 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 6 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   South Korea (Lee) 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 3   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 6

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Denmark (Ørbæk) 1 0 0 0 1 0 X X 2   China (Wang) 0 4 3 2 0 2 X X 11 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 5 1 0 0 2 2 X X 10   United States (Emt) 0 0 2 1 0 0 X X 3 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Italy (Marchese) 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 X 4   Canada (Ideson) 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 X 6

Draw 8

Tuesday, March 7, 8:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   China (Wang) 1 1 0 2 1 1 X X 6   United States (Emt) 0 0 1 0 0 0 X X 1 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 3 1 4 3 2 0 X X 13   Latvia (Briedis) 0 0 0 0 0 1 X X 1 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Italy (Marchese) 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 6   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 2 2 0 4 0 1 1 10

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Scotland (Nibloe) 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1   Canada (Ideson) 1 2 3 0 1 1 X X 8 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final   Norway (Stordahl) 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 6   South Korea (Lee) 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 7 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Japan (Sakataya) 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 X 5   Denmark (Ørbæk) 4 0 0 2 2 0 2 X 10

Draw 9

Wednesday, March 8, 12:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Italy (Marchese) 0 0 2 0 1 0 X X 3   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 4 3 0 2 0 3 X X 12 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Canada (Ideson) 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 X 3   South Korea (Lee) 2 0 0 0 2 2 1 X 7 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   United States (Emt) 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 X 7   Denmark (Ørbæk) 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 X 4

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Latvia (Briedis) 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 X 2   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 X 5 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   China (Wang) 2 0 1 0 1 0 3 X 7   Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 2 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Scotland (Nibloe) 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 6   Norway (Stordahl) 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 5

Draw 10

Wednesday, March 8, 8:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Japan (Sakataya) 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 4   South Korea (Lee) 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 6 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Denmark (Ørbæk) 0 0 4 1 0 1 0 X 6   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 3 3 0 0 1 0 4 X 11 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   China (Wang) 3 0 0 1 0 0 5 X 9   Scotland (Nibloe) 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 X 2

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Norway (Stordahl) 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 4   Italy (Marchese) 0 1 2 2 0 3 7 X 15 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Canada (Ideson) 2 3 2 1 0 5 X X 13   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   United States (Emt) 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 X 7   Latvia (Briedis) 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 3

Draw 11

Thursday, March 9, 1:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Denmark (Ørbæk) 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3   Canada (Ideson) 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 1 7 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   China (Wang) 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 X 5   Norway (Stordahl) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final   Latvia (Briedis) 0 1 2 1 0 3 0 0 1 8   Japan (Sakataya) 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 7

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   United States (Emt) 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 5   South Korea (Lee) 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 4 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Scotland (Nibloe) 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 6   Italy (Marchese) 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 9 Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Czech Republic (Selnekovičová) 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 4   Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 7

Playoffs

	Qualification games					Semifinals					Final
						1	China	5
	4	United States	3			5	Sweden	2
	5	Sweden	11								1	China	5
											2	Canada	2
						2	Canada	5
	3	South Korea	2			6	Scotland	2
	6	Scotland	6								Bronze medal game
											5	Sweden	4
											6	Scotland	7

Qualification Games

Friday, March 10, 1:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
South Korea (Lee)	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	2
Scotland (Nibloe)	0	1	0	1	1	1	2	X	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States (Emt)	0	0	0	2	0	1	X	X	3
Sweden (Petersson-Dahl)	5	1	1	0	4	0	X	X	11

Semifinals

Saturday, March 11, 2:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
China (Wang)	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	5
Sweden (Petersson-Dahl)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Ideson)	0	0	1	0	2	2	0	X	5
Scotland (Nibloe)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	2

Bronze medal game

Sunday, March 12, 10:00 am

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sweden (Petersson-Dahl)	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	4
Scotland (Nibloe)	0	0	3	1	0	1	2	X	7

Final

Sunday, March 12, 10:00 am

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
China (Wang)	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	5
Canada (Ideson)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2

Final standings

Key
	Teams relegated to 2024 B Championship

Place	Team
	China
	Canada
	Scotland
4	Sweden
5	South Korea
6	United States
7	Norway
8	Czech Republic
9	Latvia
10	Italy
11	Denmark
12	Japan

See also

• 2022 World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship
• 2023 World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship

References

1. "World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2023". World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
2. "Two World Wheelchair Championships begin Saturday in Richmond, Canada". World Curling Federation. February 28, 2023. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
3. "Czech Republic, Denmark and Germany qualify for World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2023". World Curling Federation. November 10, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
4. "Belarus and Russia event exclusion extended". World Curling Federation. December 19, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
5. "Teams". World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
6. "Standings". World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
7. "Schedule". World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
8. "Game Results – Denmark vs Scotland" (PDF). World Curling Federation. Retrieved March 8, 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Results from the World Curling Federation