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Thirteen curling federations qualified to participate in the 2024 World Women's Curling Championship. Of note, Germany failed to qualify for the championship for the first time since 2005. Estonia and New Zealand made their second appearances while Turkey qualified for their third straight Worlds. [14]
Women's world curling champions; Year Gold Silver Bronze Country Team Country Team Country Team 1979 Switzerland: Gaby Casanova Rosie Manger Linda Thommen Betty Bourquin Sweden: Birgitta Törn Katarina Hultling Susanne Gynning-Ödling Gunilla Bergman Canada: Lindsay Sparkes Dawn Knowles Robin Wilson Lorraine Anne Bowles Scotland: Beth Lindsay ...
The WCF World Rankings system is designed to track and list the amount of success achieved by each member association of the World Curling Federation (WCF) in a given curling season. The system, which was implemented in December 2006, is similar to the ranking system used by FIFA .
Thirteen curling federations qualified to participate in the 2023 World Women's Curling Championship. This was the first year to qualify teams using the new 2022 Pan Continental Curling Championships, with New Zealand winning entry into the World Women's Championship for the first time, represented by a team skipped by Jessica Smith.
This is a list of the top men's, women's and mixed doubles curling teams of the 2023–24 curling season, sorted by their end of season World Curling ranking.. This list shows the team lineups, their playdown record (provincial or regional championships, national or continental qualifiers), national championship record, world championship record, Grand Slam record (men's and women's only), and ...
Prince George was originally chosen to host the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship, but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] The format for the Championship returned to a 13 team round robin opposed to the 14 teams qualified for the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship. The top six teams qualified for the playoff ...
The top 16 ranked men's and women's teams on the World Curling Federation's world team rankings as of October 22, 2024, qualified for the event. The Grand Slam of Curling may fill one spot in each division as a sponsor's exemption.
The World Curling Championships began in 1959 as the Scotch Cup. The Scotch Cup was created by Toronto public relations executive and former sports journalist Stanley D. Houston on behalf of the Scotch Whisky Association, a client of Houston's agency Public Relations Services Limited, which was looking to generate increased North American exposure for its products.