2008 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
- 2008 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
The 2008 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held March 8-16 in Vierumäki, Finland.[ [http://www.wmdcc2008.com/ "2008 Host site: World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships 2008 – 8.-16.3.2008 Vierumäki Finland"] (Retrieved on March 22, 2008)] It was the first mixed doubles world championships organized by the World Curling Federation.][ [http://www.worldcurling.org/ "World Curling Federation"] (Retrieved on March 22, 2008)] ][ [http://www.wmdcc2008.com/mp/db/file_library/x/IMG/12345/file/WMDCC2008_Schedule.pdf "Event Schedule"] ] ]Teams
Blue group
*CHN (Zhang/Guangxu)
*DEN (Dupont/Damm)
*FIN (Malmi/J. Uusipaavalniemi)
*NZL (B. Becker/S. Becker)
*POL (Ogrodniczek/Herman)
*SUI (Küng/Müller)
*USA (J. Haskell/N. Haskell)
*WLS (Peters/Jones)
Red group
*CAN (O' Connor/Ross)
*ENG (Clark/Amann)
*EST (Velga/Anderson)
*HUN (Szekeres/Nagy)
*ITA (Mingozzi/Rostagnotto)
*JPN (Taira/Tomabechi)
*SVK (Vojtusova/Turna)
*SWE (Persson/Carlsson)
Green group
*AUS (Thomas/Chick)
*CZE (Cechova/Zdarsky)
*ESP (Garcia Vez/Vez Labrador)
*FRA (Grieshaber/Roux)
*LAT (Stasa/Krusts)
*NOR (Githmark/Andreassen)
*RUS (Grichina/Abanin)
*SCO (Carr/Perras)
Not Competing
The following teams were initially listed as participating in this event but on 24-Feb-2008 updated schedule they are not included. No reasons given as to why.
*NED
*flag|Ireland|4prov
*KAZ
*BRA
*GER
tandings
Blue
Playoffs
*Semi-final challenge #1: CAN 11-3 CZE
*Semi-final challenge #2: FIN 9-8 CAN
4TeamBracket | RD1= Semi-final
RD2= Final
RD1-seed1=
RD1-team1=SUI
RD1-score1= 11
RD1-seed2=
RD1-team2=NOR
RD1-score2= 2
RD1-seed3=
RD1-team3=SWE
RD1-score3=4
RD1-seed4=
RD1-team4=FIN
RD1-score4=6
RD2-seed1=
RD2-team1=SUI
RD2-score1=5
RD2-seed2=
RD2-team2=FIN
RD2-score2=42TeamBracket | RD1=Bronze medal
RD1-seed1=
RD1-team1=NOR
RD1-score1=2
RD1-seed2=
RD1-team2=SWE
RD1-score2=9
References
ee also
* 2008 Brier
* 2008 World Men's Curling Championship
* 2008 World Junior Curling Championships
* 2008 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
* 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship
* 2008 Scotties Tournament of Hearts
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