Jiang Xindi, nicknamed "Cindy" (; born January 26, 1997, in

Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...

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) is a Chinese female curler. She was part of the Chinese women's curling team on

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Career

Jiang competed at the

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, where the Chinese team participated in the women's curling tournament. She competed at the

2018 World Women's Curling Championship The 2018 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 17–25 at the North Bay Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The format of the tourn ...

where her team placed seventh. Jiang also won the bronze medal at the

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and the silver medal at the

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Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships. To start the 2019–20 season, Jiang and her team won the

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event, the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic. She represented China at the

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as second for

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. After going 6–1 in the round robin, they defeated Korea and Japan in the semifinal and final, respectively, to claim the title. It was China's first title since 2014. The victory earned a spot for China at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship, which was cancelled due to COVID-19. A year later, the team represented China at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship, finishing tenth with a 6–7 record.

Teams

Private life

Jiang became involved in curling when her grandfather, middle school physics teacher Jiang Fang opened a curling club after he was inspired watching curling on TV broadcasting from 2006 Olympics in Turin. Many from her family plays curling too. She is niece of competitive Chinese female curler Jiang Yilun, they are teammates for today.

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