Xu Jingtao (; born August 5, 1993, in Harbin) is a Chinese curler.

Career

As a junior curler, Xu played

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for the Chinese men's team (skipped by Jiang Dongxu) at the 2013 World Junior Curling Championships, finishing with a 1–8 record. He also played for China (skipped by Wang Jinbo), throwing second rocks at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships, picking up a silver medal. After juniors, Wang joined the Chinese men's national team in 2017, playing second for the team, skipped by

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for the 2017–18 season, and then as

for the 2018–19 season on the team, which was skipped by Zou Qiang. In the 2017–18 season, the team played in the

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, taking home the silver medal. This qualified the team for the

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, where they finished with a 3–9 record. For the 2018–19 season, the team first played in the 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, where they won a silver medal. This qualified them for the 2019 World Men's Curling Championship, where they finished with a 2–10 record. Also that season, Xu played in the second leg and

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legs of the Curling World Cup. In the second leg, his team finished fifth, and in the final leg, the team lost in the final to Canada's

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. Team Zou represented China at the

2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships The 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships was held from November 2 to 9 at the Shenzhen Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen, China. The top men's team and the top two women's teams qualified for the 2020 World Men's Curling Championship and 2 ...

. There, the team finished with a 7–2 round robin record. Following the round robin, the team lost in the semifinal to Japan but won the bronze medal game against New Zealand. The team then had to play in the

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to qualify for the World Championship, which they won. This secured China a spot at the cancelled

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. On the

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that season, Team Zou won the 2019

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event. Because of the

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, most of the 2020–21 curling season was cancelled. However, the

2021 World Men's Curling Championship The 2021 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 2021 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from April 2 to 11 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Canada. The ...

took place in a fan-less bubble in

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, with the teams qualifying for the 2020 Worlds qualifying for the event. At the 2021 Worlds, the team finished in last place with a 2–11 record. The next season, Xu was selected to be the lead on the Chinese men's team for the

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, held in

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. The team also included skip Ma Xiuyue, Zou Qiang, Wang Zhiyu and Jiang Dongxu. Despite not playing a single international competition before the Games, the team fared quite well, finishing the round robin with a 4–5 record. This included defeating higher-seeded teams such as Switzerland's

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, Norway's Steffen Walstad, and Italy's Joël Retornaz. Ultimately, they finished in a four-way tie for fifth place; however, their head to head wins over Switzerland and Norway placed them alone in fifth place at the end of the competition.

Personal life

Xu married Mei Jie, a curler in Chinese Women's Curling National Team in 2022.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Xu, Jingtao Living people 1993 births Chinese male curlers Sportspeople from Harbin Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for China