World Junior-B Curling Championships

World Junior-B Curling Championships
Established	1999
2025 host city	Lohja, Finland
2025 arena	Kisakallio Sports Institute
Current champions (2024)
Men	South Korea
Women	South Korea
Current edition
2024 World Junior-B Curling Championships

The World Junior-B Curling Championships are an annual curling bonspiel. The championships feature curlers under the age of 21 competing to qualify for three spots in the World Junior Curling Championships. Nations that participate are those which have not already qualified for the World Junior Championships. The competition originally was established in 1999, then was replaced after the 2003-04 season with the European Junior Curling Challenge and Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships. In 2016, the Junior-B Championships were brought back to replace the European and Pacific-Asia Junior Championships. ^[1]

The 2021 World Junior-B Championships were scheduled to be held in Lohja, Finland, but in September 2020 the World Curling Federation announced they would be cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. ^[2]

Summary

Skips of each winning team are listed below their corresponding nation

Men

Year	Host City/Country		Final				Third Place Match
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1999	Hamburg, Germany		Norway Thomas Berntsen	N/A [a]	Czech Republic Vit Nekovarik		France Jérémy Frarier	N/A [a]	Austria Marco Reiner
2001	Tårnby, Denmark		France Richard Ducroz	N/A [a]	Russia Alexander Kirikov		Italy Joël Retornaz	N/A [a]	Norway Thomas Løvold
2002	Hügelsheim, Germany		Norway Thomas Løvold	N/A [a]	Russia Alexander Kirikov		Czech Republic Petr Sulc	5–4	France Jérémy Frarier
2003	Tårnby, Denmark		Norway Thomas Løvold	4–3	Finland Tuomas Vuori		United States Kristopher Perkovich	4–3	France Richard Ducroz
2004	Tårnby, Denmark		South Korea Kim Soo-hyuk	9–5	Italy Joël Retornaz		Czech Republic Milos Hoferka	N/A [a]	Finland Riku Harjula
2016	Lohja, Finland		Russia Alexander Eremin	5–2	Denmark Tobias Thune		South Korea Lee Ki-jeong	4–2	Germany Marc Muskatewitz
2017	Östersund, Sweden		China Wang Zhiyu	5–2	Turkey Uğurcan Karagöz		Italy Marco Onnis	5–2	Germany Marc Muskatewitz
2018	Lohja, Finland		China Wang Zhiyu	5–4	Russia Aleksandr Bystrov		Germany Sixten Totzek	6–4	Spain Gontzal Garcia
2019 (January)	Lohja, Finland		New Zealand Matthew Neilson	8–4	Italy Luca Rizzolli		China Wang Weihaoping	6–4	South Korea Lee Jae-beom
2019 (December)	Lohja, Finland		Sweden Daniel Magnusson	6–5	Italy Giacomo Colli		Germany Sixten Totzek	5–4	France Eddy Mercier
2021	Lohja, Finland		Cancelled [2]				Cancelled
2022 (January)	Lohja, Finland		Suspended				Suspended
2022 (December)	Lohja, Finland		China Fei Xueqing	7–2	Italy Giacomo Colli		Turkey Serkan Karagöz	6–5	Sweden Axel Landelius
2023	Lohja, Finland		Canada Johnson Tao	7–4	United States Wesley Wendling		Denmark Jacob Schmidt	7–5	New Zealand Sam Flanagan
2024	Lohja, Finland		South Korea Kim Dae-hyun	4–3	Switzerland Felix Lüthold		Japan Toa Nakahara	7–2	China Liu Guangshen
2025	Lohja, Finland

Women

Year	Host City/Country		Final				Third Place Match
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1999	Hamburg, Germany		Germany Cornelia Stock	N/A [a]	Russia Nina Golovtchenko		Denmark Louise Jensen	N/A [a]	Italy Erica de Salvador
2001	Tårnby, Denmark		Germany Daniela Jentsch	N/A [a]	Denmark Madeleine Dupont		Italy Diana Gaspari	N/A [a]	Czech Republic Lenka Danielisova
2002	Hügelsheim, Germany		Germany Daniela Jentsch	N/A [a]	Italy Diana Gaspari		Denmark Denise Dupont	N/A [a]	Czech Republic Hana Synácková
2003	Tårnby, Denmark		Russia Nkeirouka Ezekh	N/A [a]	Norway Linn Githmark		Denmark Nete Larsen	N/A [a]	Czech Republic Sárka Doudová
2004	Tårnby, Denmark		Denmark Madeleine Dupont	N/A [a]	Russia Liudmila Privivkova		Czech Republic Sárka Doudová	N/A [a]	South Korea Kim Ji-Suk
2016	Lohja, Finland		Russia Evgeniya Demkina	6–3	Japan Ayano Tsuchiya		Hungary Dorottya Palancsa	9–2	Estonia Marie Turmann
2017	Östersund, Sweden		Scotland Sophie Jackson	7–4	Turkey Dilşat Yıldız		Japan Misaki Tanaka	6–3	China Zhang Lijun
2018	Lohja, Finland		China Wang Zixin	4–2	Turkey Dilşat Yıldız		Norway Maia Ramsfjell	5–4	New Zealand Jessica Smith
2019 (January)	Lohja, Finland		Scotland Beth Farmer	5–3	Russia Vlada Rumiantseva		Japan Ami Enami	6–5	Hungary Linda Joó
2019 (December)	Lohja, Finland		Japan Sae Yamamoto	7–1	Latvia Evelīna Barone		Denmark Mathilde Halse	8–2	Hungary Linda Joó
2021	Lohja, Finland		Cancelled [2]				Cancelled
2022 (January)	Lohja, Finland		Cancelled				Cancelled
2022 (December)	Lohja, Finland		Canada Emily Deschenes	5–4	Scotland Fay Henderson		South Korea Kang Bo-bae	11–10	Turkey İlknur Ürüşan
2023	Lohja, Finland		China Li Ziru	6–3	Canada Myla Plett		Germany Sara Messenzehl	7–5	Turkey İlknur Ürüşan
2024	Lohja, Finland		South Korea Kang Bo-bae	7–3	Latvia Evelīna Barone		China Li Ziru	8–4	Scotland Callie Soutar
2025	Lohja, Finland

Notes

1. Not played due to format of tournament.

References

1. "Lohja, Finland to host two World Curling Championship qualification events". World Curling Federation. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
2. "World Curling Federation cancels five 2020-2021 season qualification events". Around the Rings. 1 September 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2021.