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Xenia Schwaller
Xenia Schwaller (born September 16, 2002) is a Swiss curler from Zürich. She currently skips her own team out of the Grasshopper Club Zürich. In 2024, she skipped her team to victory at the 2024 World Junior Curling Championships, going undefeated at the event. Career Schwaller first represented Switzerland on the international stage at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival as third for Jan Iseli. At the festival, the Swiss team with second Maximilian Winz and lead Malin Da Ros posted an undefeated 6–0 record to qualify for the playoffs. They defeated Hungary in the semifinal before losing to Great Britain in the final, settling for silver. The next season, the same team returned to represent Switzerland as the host team at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Champéry. Drawing on their past experience, the squad again went undefeated in the round robin to reach the knockout round. However, in the quarterfinals, they gave up a steal of two in the eighth end to lose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zürich
, neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich () is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 434,335 inhabitants, the urban area 1.315 million (2009), and the Zürich metropolitan area 1.83 million (2011). Zürich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and Zürich's main railway station are the largest and busiest in the country. Permanently settled for over 2,000 years, Zürich was founded by the Romans, who called it '. However, early settlements have been found dating back more than 6,400 years (although this only indicates human presence in the area and not the presence of a town that early). During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling At The 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed Doubles
Mixed doubles curling at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics was held from 18 to 22 January at the Palladium de Champéry in Champéry, Switzerland. Teams The teams will consist of athletes from the mixed team tournament, one boy and one girl from different NOCs. The teams will be selected by the organizing committee based on the final ranking from the mixed team competition in a way that balances out the teams. The players in each pair will then be allowed time to train together. Knockout Draw Bracket The event was held in a modified knockout, with all winners of the Round of 6, including the loser with the best Draw Shot Challenge (DSC), qualifying for the finals. Top half Middle Half Bottom half Ranking of Draw Shot Challenge Finals Knockout results All draw times are listed in Central European Time (UTC+01). Round of 48 Draw 1 ''Saturday, January 18, 10:00'' } Draw 2 ''Saturday, January 18, 14:00'' Draw 3 ''Saturday, January 18, 18:00'' Draw 4 ''Sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the fourth-largest city and fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and headquarters to the federal government. The city houses numerous foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Canada's government, including the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court, the residence of Canada's viceroy, and Office of the Prime Minister. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, its original boundaries were expanded through numerous annexations and were ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is currently the reigning women's world champion skip having won the last three championships, in 2019, 2021 and . Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics, after winning the 2017 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials. Career In 1997, Tirinzoni was the Swiss alternate for Bianca Röthlisberger at the World Junior Curling Championships. The team finished seventh. The following year, Tirinzoni was the Swiss skip at the World Juniors, and she and her team of Michèle Knobel, Brigitte Schori and Martina von Arx finished sixth. In 1999, the same team returned to the Juniors and won the whole tournament for Switzerland. After finishing the round robin in second place with a 7–2 record, Tirinzoni led Switzerland to a semi-final win over Sweden's Matilda Mattsson and a final win against Japan (skipped by Akiko Katoh) to win the gold medal. In 2005 Tirinzoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Women's Masters Basel
The 2022 Women's Masters Basel was held from September 23 to 25 at the Curlingzentrum Region Basel in Arlesheim, Switzerland as part of the World Curling Tour. The event was held in a round-robin format with a purse of 32,000 CHF. It was the first women's World Curling Tour event of the 2022–23 curling season. Teams The teams are listed as follows: Round robin standings ''Final Round Robin Standings'' Round robin results All draw times listed in Central European Time Central European Time (CET) is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00. It is used in most parts of Europe and in a few North African countries. CET i ... ( UTC+01:00). Draw 1 ''Friday, September 23, 9:00 am'' Draw 2 ''Friday, September 23, 12:00 pm'' Draw 3 ''Friday, September 23, 3:30 pm'' Draw 4 ''Friday, September 23, 7:00 pm'' Draw 5 ''Saturday, September 24, 9:00 am'' Draw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 Curling Season
The 2022–23 curling season began in June 2022 and ended in May 2023. ''Note: In events with two genders, the men's tournament winners will be listed before the women's tournament winners.'' World Curling Federation events Source: Championships Qualification events Other events Curling Canada events Source: Championships Invitationals Provincial and territorial playdowns National championships Australia Brazil China ;Chinese Curling League ;Chinese Curling Championships Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia (source:) Finland Italy Japan Latvia (source:) Netherlands New Zealand Norway (source:) Russia Scotland South Korea Sweden Switzerland United States {, class="wikitable" ! colspan="2", Event ! style="background:gold" , Gold ! style="background:silver" , Silver ! style="background:#cc9966" , Bronze , - , colspan="2", United States Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship Hartland, Wisconsin, Dec. 15� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelīna Barone
Evelīna Barone (born 16 November 2003 in Riga) is a Latvian curler from Riga. Career At the national level, she is a two-time Latvian women's champion (2016, 2019) and six-time junior champion (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). When she was just 13, she competed in her first European Curling Championships at the 2016 European Curling Championships where the team finished sixth in the B Group with a 5–4 record. The teams best finish was in 2018 where they finished 4–5 in the A Division including defeating higher-ranked Scotland's Eve Muirhead. This qualified them for the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship The 2019 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as the 2019 LGT World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from 16 to 24 March at the Silkeborg Sportscenter in Silkeborg, Denmark. Qualification The following nati .... There, the team struggled, finishing in last place with a 1–11 record. Teams References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sae Yamamoto (curler)
is a Japanese curler. She currently plays second The second (symbol: s) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds ... on the Hokkaido Bank curling team skipped by Momoha Tabata. In 2022, she medaled gold at the World Junior Curling Championships as the skip for the Japanese team. Early life and education Yamamoto was born in Saku, Nagano. She graduated from and , and currently attends Japan Women's University. She began curling in fourth grade through the SWAN Project, which was held in Nagano to train Winter Olympic medalists. Career In November 2015, Yamamoto was the runner up in the Japan Junior Curling Championship. At the Japan Curling Championships in February 2016, although she advanced to the playoffs in 3rd place, Yamamoto ultimately placed 4th. She competed in the World Junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Swiss Women's Curling Championship
The 2022 Swiss Women's Curling Championship, the national women's curling championship for Switzerland is being held from February 19 to February 26 in Thônex at the Trois-Chêne curling club. Team Tirinzoni are the defending champions and are returning from a fourth-place finish at the 2022 Olympics. There are seven teams competing to represent Switzerland at the 2022 World Women's Curling Championship. The event, due to team Tirinzoni's participation at the olympics, was a six-team single round-robin tournament with three teams qualifying for the playoffs and team Tirizoni as the fourth team in the playoffs. The playoffs teams qualified for a single round-robin tournament for seeding purposed for the playoffs. The playoffs consist of best-of-one semi finals, a best-of-one third place game, and a best-of-three championship round. Teams Tirinzoni defeated team Keiser in 2–1 in a best of three final. Teams These are the teams participating in the event: Round-robin standing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, ; fi, Ruotsi; fit, Ruotti; se, Ruoŧŧa; smj, Svierik; sje, Sverji; sju, Sverje; sma, Sveerje or ; yi, שוועדן, Shvedn; rmu, Svedikko; rmf, Sveittiko. formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country and the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of ; around 87% of Swedes reside in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden’s urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Because the country is so long, ranging from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N, the climate of Sweden is diverse. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times, . T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jönköping
Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland. The city is the seat of Jönköping Municipality, which has a population of 144,699 (2022) and is Småland's most populous municipality. Jönköping is also the seat of Jönköping County which has a population of 367,064 (2022). Jönköping is the seat of a district court and a court of appeal as well as the Swedish National Courts Administration. It is the seat of the Swedish Board of Agriculture. County government The Jönköping municipality has its headquarters in a place called "rådhuset". Rådhuset is an important component of the function of the municipality as it works as a state office for different departments of and in jönköping. Rådhuset is dependent on the municipality but is its own entity, the head of the rådhuset has political power but is not the head of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 World Junior Curling Championships
The 2022 World Junior Curling Championships were held from May 15 to 22 at the Jönköping Curling Club in Jönköping, Sweden. The event was originally scheduled to be held March 5 to 12, however, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. It was the final World Curling Federation event held during the 2021–22 curling season. Medallists Men Qualification The following nations qualified to participate in the 2022 World Junior Curling Championship: World Junior-B cancellation The 2022 World Junior-B Curling Championships were intended to be held from January 3 to 14 to qualify the final three nations for the World Junior Curling Championships. However, on January 6, the World Curling Federation was forced to cancel the event due to an outbreak of COVID-19 cases. The three spots from the championship were then awarded to Italy, New Zealand and Norway, who were the highest ranked nations who had not already secured qualification spots. Russian participation As pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
