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2024 Tour Challenge
The 2024 HearingLife Tour Challenge was held from October 1 to 6 at the Bell Aliant Centre in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. It was the first Grand Slam event of the 2024–25 curling season, and the first event following the series' acquisition by The Curling Group. One of the main changes brought in by the new ownership included streaming every single game on every sheet. Manitoba's Team Kerri Einarson won the women's final, defeating Team Rachel Homan from Ottawa, 5–4. It was Einarson's sixth Grand Slam. The team featured a temporary front-end of Dawn McEwen who was filling in for regular second Shannon Birchard who was injured, and Krysten Karwacki who was filling in for Briane Harris who was waiting on an appeal for being barred for testing positive for a banned substance. On the men's side, Scotland's Team Bruce Mouat defeated Newfoundland's Brad Gushue 10–3. The win gave Mouat his first Tour Challenge, and with it a championship in each of the tour's five slam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlottetown
Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in 1855. It was the site of the famous Charlottetown Conference in 1864, the first gathering of Canadian and Maritime statesmen to discuss the proposed Maritime Union. This conference led, instead, to the union of British North American colonies in 1867, which was the beginning of the Canadian confederation. Prince Edward Island, however, did not join Confederation until 1873. From this, the city adopted as its motto ''Cunabula Foederis'', "Birthplace of Confederation". The population of Charlottetown is estimated to be 40,500 (2022); this forms the centre of a census agglomeration of 83,063 (2021), which is roughly half of the province's population (160,302). History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers (born December 30, 1984) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Carruthers was the 2011 world champion—winning gold as a second on Jeff Stoughton's team—as well as an eight-time provincial champion, the 2003 junior provincial champion, and the 2008 Manitoba provincial mixed champion. He coaches the Kerri Einarson women's team. Career As a junior curler, Carruthers skipped Manitoba at the 2003 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. He would lead the team to a 4-8 round robin record. After juniors, he skipped a team with Jason Gunnlaugson, Derek Samagalski and Tyler Forrest to a provincial final against Jeff Stoughton in 2006. In 2008, he would play in his first Brier, playing as the alternate for the Kerry Burtnyk rink, finishing in 5th place. Carruthers would join the Stoughton rink as his second, in 2010. He won his first Manitoba provincial title playing for Stoughton at the 2011 Safeway Championship. Carruthers went on to win his first T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayaka Yoshimura
is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the skip of the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in 2015, 2021 and 2025. At the international level, she has represented Japan three times at the World Women's Curling Championship (, , ) and two Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in and , winning the gold medal in 2021. Career Yoshimura made her international debut for Japan at the 2006 Pacific Junior Curling Championships, playing lead for Team Japan, skipped by Megumi Kobayashi. They would win a silver medal after losing in the final to China's Wang Bingyu. In 2009, her junior team competed in the qualification round for the 2010 Winter Olympics, but lost in the first round to Team Nagano. Yoshimura did not return to the Pacific Juniors until 2011, when she skipped Japan to a gold medal at the 2011 Pacific Junior Curling Championships, qualifying her nation for the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships. There, she led Japan to a 3–6 reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Black
Christina Black (born October 21, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently skips her own team out of the Halifax Curling Club. Career Women's Black joined Team Mary-Anne Arsenault for the 2014–15 season at third. The team, along with second Jane Snyder and lead Jennifer Baxter, won two tour events early in the season, the Dave Jones Molson Mayflower Cashspiel and the Gibson's Cashspiel. They also won the 2015 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, qualifying them for the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Black's first. There, the team finished in seventh place with a 5–6 record. In 2016, Jennifer Crouse joined at second when Snyder left the team. A few seasons later, they won the 2018 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts and won a bronze medal at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Later that year, the team won the 2018 New Scotland Clothing Ladies Cashspiel. The Arsenault rink began the 2019–20 season by winning the 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Ramsfjell
Magnus Ramsfjell (born 17 July 1997 in Tønsberg) is a Norwegian curler from Trondheim. Career Juniors Ramsfjell was the skip of the Norwegian junior men's team in four straight World Junior Curling Championships from 2016 to 2019. At the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships, Ramsfjell led his team of Bendik Ramsfjell, Magnus Vågberg, Elias Høstmælingen and Eskil Vintervold to a 5-4 round robin record, missing the playoffs. At the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships, his team improved to a 6-3 round robin record, which put them in a tiebreaker game against Canada's Tyler Tardi rink for the final playoff spot. They beat Canada in the tiebreaker game, but lost to Scotland's Cameron Bryce in the 3 vs. 4 game. This put them in the bronze medal game, where they faced Scotland again. This time, they would beat the Scots to claim the bronze medal. At the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships, Ramsfjell would skip a new team which consisted of Kristian Foss, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rylan Kleiter
Rylan Kleiter (born July 4, 1998) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He currently skips his own team. Team Kleiter is known for their brightly coloured paint splash pants. Curling career Juniors Kleiter and his rink of Trevor Johnson, Joshua Mattern and Matthieu Taillon represented Saskatchewan internationally for the first time at the 2015 U18 International Curling Championships where he skipped the team to a 2–3 round robin record, unfortunately missing the playoffs. The team was able to win their two consolation games however, winning the C Event. Team Kleiter won the U18 provincial championship once again in 2017. They represented Saskatchewan at the 2017 Canadian U18 Curling Championships in Moncton, New Brunswick and topped their pool with a 4–1 record. Two more wins in the championship pool qualified them for the playoffs as the second seed. They lost the semifinal against Nova Scotia and the bronze medal game against British Columbia, unfortunately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briane Harris
Briane Harris (born March 11, 1992, as Briane Meilleur) is a Canadian curler from Petersfield, Manitoba. She currently plays third on Team Kate Cameron. Harris was a member of the Kerri Einarson rink from 2018 until being suspended from competitive curling in 2024 due to testing positive for Ligandrol, which she was found to have not been responsible for. With Einarson, Harris is a four-time Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion, winning the title in , , and . She has also won four Grand Slam of Curling events with the Einarson rink. Career Harris had a fairly successful junior career playing third for Breanne Knapp, winning the Manitoba junior title in 2010 and 2011 and competing in the 2010 and 2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. She won the bronze medal in 2011. She began her senior career as a skip in the 2011–12 season, and played in her first Grand Slam, the 2011 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic. After playing for several different teams, she b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Birchard
Shannon Birchard (born May 11, 1994) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays second on Team Kerri Einarson from Gimli, Manitoba. The Einarson team are four-time Scotties Tournament of Hearts champions, winning the title in , , and . Birchard also won the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts with Jennifer Jones when she filled for Kaitlyn Lawes who was competing at the PyeongChang Olympics. She would win a world championship as the alternate member of the Jones team that same year when they won the event in North Bay in 2018. She has also won four Grand Slam of Curling events with the Einarson rink. Career Juniors Birchard won two provincial junior championships in her junior career, in 2012 and 2013 as a skip. At the 2012 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Birchard led her team of Selena Kaatz, Kristin MacCuish and Mariah Mondor to a 10-2 round robin record, giving her rink a bye to the finals, where she lost to Alberta's Jocelyn Peterman. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Karrys
George Karrys (born February 15, 1967) is a Canadian retired curler and journalist. He won a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano"1998 Winter Olympics – Nagano, Japan – Curling" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on March 20, 2008) with , Richard Hart, and Collin Mitchell. Karrys is the former owner of and current Editor-In-Chief of '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curling News
''The Curling News'' (TCN), formerly the ''Canadian Curling News'' is a publication dedicated to the sport of curling. Formerly a monthly print newspaper, it now publishes its articles on-line. The ''Canadian Curling News'' was founded in 1957 by future Canadian Curling Hall of Fame inductee Ted Thonger in Calgary. The publication had 7,800 subscriptions by the end of its first season in print. Former editors of the publication include Larry Wood, Doug Maxwell, and George Karrys. Maxwell shut down the publication in 1994, but later brought it back. 1998 Olympic silver medallist George Karrys bought the publication in 2003, and re-branded it as ''The Curling News''. Karrys served as Editor-In-Chief until 2019. The Curling News was acquired by Roustan Media in 2019. The publication suspended its print operation during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Later that year, it formed a partnership with ''Sports Illustrated ''Sports Illustrated'' (''SI'') is an American sports magaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024–25 Curling Season
The 2024–25 curling season began in May 2024 and ended in May 2025. World Curling Federation events Source: Championships Qualification events Other events Curling Canada events Source: Championships Invitationals Provincial and Territorial Playdowns National championships Australia Czech Republic source: Denmark source: Estonia Finland Source: Germany Hungary Source: Italy Source: Japan Latvia source: New Zealand Norway source: Russia Source: Video: (Official RuTube-channel of Russian Curling Federation) Scotland source: South Korea Sweden source: Switzerland United States source: Tour events Men's events Source: * Women's team. Women's events Source: Mixed doubles events Source: World Curling team rankings Notable team changes Retirement Announcements * Glenn Howard: The four-time Canadian and world champion announced his retirement in April 2024, citing a knee injury. The 61-year-old, who also won 14 Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Slam Of Curling
The Grand Slam of Curling (formerly branded as the Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling for sponsorship reasons) is a series of curling bonspiels that were formerly part of the annual World Curling Tour. Grand Slam events offer a purse of at least Canadian dollar, CAD$100,000, and feature the best teams from across Canada and around the World. The Grand Slam was instituted during the 2001–02 season for men and 2006–07 for women (with the 2006 Players' Championship also considered a Slam), but some of the Grand Slam events have longer histories as bonspiels. The Grand Slam season consists of five men's and women's events. The original four events (Masters, Open, National, and Players' Championship) are considered to be "majors". The other slam (Tour Challenge) has a unique format that sets it apart from other events in the series. History In 2001, many male curlers were upset with the Canadian Curling Association (CCA). Their complaints included the long length of the curling seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
