Dong Ziqi (; born April 3, 1999, in

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) is a Chinese female curler. She currently plays

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on Team Wang Rui.

Career

Dong played

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for the Chinese team that won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships. She was also the third for the team that won a bronze at the

2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships The 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships were held from November 3 to 10 at the Gangneung Curling Centre in Gangneung, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the sou ...

. Dong also competed in three legs of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup with her best finish at the Third Leg, where her team finished fourth. Dong played third for the Chinese team at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship, skipped by

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. The team finished in tenth at the tournament with a 6–7 record. Dong would play second on the Chinese team, skipped by Han on home soil at the

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), were an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beijing, China, and surrounding areas wit ...

, where the team would finish 4–5 in the round-robin, finishing 7th. Dong would return to international curling as second on the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Rui at 2024 Pan Continental Curling Championships, where the team would win a bronze medal, qualifying them to return for the

2025 World Women's Curling Championship The 2025 World Curling Championships, World Women's Curling Championship (46th) (branded as the 2025 LGT Group, LGT World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 15 to 23 at the Uijeongbu Indoor Ice Rink in Uijeo ...

. In preparation for the World Championships, they would also represent China at the

2025 Asian Winter Games The 2025 Asian Winter Games ( zh, s=第九届亚洲冬季运动会, p=Dì jiǔ jiè yàzhōu dōngjì yùndònghuì), officially known as the 9th Asian Winter Games, and commonly known as Harbin 2025 (), were the ninth edition of the Asian Winte ...

, where they won a silver medal, losing to South Korea's Gim Eun-ji 7–2 in the final. At the 2025 Worlds, the team finished the round robin with a 7–5 record, and would go on to win a bronze medal, this time beating Gim 9–4 in the bronze medal game. This bronze medal performance also qualified the Chinese women's team for the

2026 Winter Olympics The 2026 Winter Olympics (), officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 6 to 22 February 2026 at sites across Lombardy and North ...

Personal life

Dong attended

Beijing Sport University Beijing Sport University (BSU; ) is a public university located in Beijing, China. It is part of the 211 Project and Double First-Class Construction. The university is affiliated with the General Administration of Sport of China. History BSU wa ...

Teams

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at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)
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