Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic | |
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Established | 2001 |
Host city | Vernon, British Columbia |
Arena | Vernon Curling Club |
Men's purse | $28,500 |
Women's purse | $28,500 |
Current champions (2024) | |
Men | Xu Xiaoming |
Women | Kang Bo-bae |
The Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic is an annual curling tournament on the men's and women's curling tour. It is held at the Vernon Curling Club in Vernon, British Columbia. It was a part of the World Curling Tour until 2019 when it was discontinued. It is held at the beginning of October, with the beginning of the bonspiel sometimes occurring in September. The event has been held since 2001. [1]
Only skips names listed
Year | Winning skip | Runner up skip | Purse (CAD) |
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2001 | Rick Folk | Jeff Stoughton | $36,000 |
2002 | Rob Bucholz | Brent Pierce | $36,000 |
2003 | Randy Ferbey | Greg McAulay | $43,500 |
2004 | Rick Folk | J. D. Lind | $43,000 |
2005 | Bob Ursel | Pierre Charette | $43,500 |
2006 | Brent Pierce | Mark Johnson | $45,000 |
2007 | Bob Ursel | Sean Geall | $24,000 |
2008 | Bob Ursel | Sean Geall | $24,000 |
2009 | Kevin Koe | Bob Ursel | $25,000 |
2010 | Kevin Koe | Andrey Drozdov | $37,000 |
2011 | Robert Schlender | Brent Pierce | $27,000 |
2012 | Jim Cotter | Jamie King | $26,000 |
2013 | Kevin Koe | Brady Clark | $35,000 |
2014 | Grant Dezura | Brent Pierce | $26,000 |
2015 | Sean Geall | Dean Joanisse | $17,000 |
2016 [2] | Tyler Tardi | Yusuke Morozumi | $17,000 |
2017 | Jeff Guignard | Adam Cseke | $12,000 |
2018 [3] | Matt Dunstone | Jim Cotter | $18,000 |
2019 [4] | Tyler Tardi | Jim Cotter | $18,000 |
2020 | Cancelled | ||
2021 | Cancelled | ||
2022 [5] | Riku Yanagisawa | Kohsuke Hirata | $18,000 |
2023 [6] | Brent Pierce | Catlin Schneider | $28,500 |
2024 [7] | Xu Xiaoming | Brent Pierce | $28,500 |
Year | Winning skip | Runner up skip | Purse (CAD) |
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2001 [8] | Kelley Law | Marla Mallett | |
2002 [9] | Kelly Scott | Kelley Law | |
2003 [10] | Shannon Kleibrink | Penny Shantz-Henderson | |
2004 | Cheryl Bernard | Kelly Scott | $15,000 |
2005 | Cheryl Bernard | Kristy Lewis | $21,000 |
2006 | Kelley Law | Corrie Lubben | $21,000 |
2007 | Heather Rankin | Shannon Kleibrink | $29,200 |
2008 | Shannon Kleibrink | Kelly Scott | $38,000 |
2009 | Moe Meguro | Cheryl Bernard | $35,000 |
2010 | Cheryl Bernard | Liudmila Privivkova | $35,000 |
2011 | Amy Nixon | Lisa Eyamie | $35,000 |
2012 | Heather Nedohin | Anna Sidorova | $35,000 |
2013 | Wang Bingyu | Mirjam Ott | $35,000 |
2014 | Ayumi Ogasawara | Corryn Brown | $37,000 |
2015 | Stefanie Lawton | Chelsea Carey | $39,000 |
2016 [11] | Marla Mallett | Cheryl Bernard | $41,500 |
2017 | Rachel Homan | Gim Un-chi | $41,000 |
2018 | Alina Kovaleva | Kelsey Rocque | $41,000 |
2019 [12] | Kelsey Rocque | Chelsea Carey | $31,500 |
2020 | Cancelled | ||
2021 | Cancelled | ||
2022 [13] | Corryn Brown | Ikue Kitazawa | $31,500 |
2023 [14] | Wang Rui | Corryn Brown | $28,500 |
2024 [15] | Kang Bo-bae | Zhang Yujie | $28,500 |
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