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Olympic teams published by the World Curling Federation
Media Relations Officer Håkan Sundström
IDROTTSHUSET, Mårbackagatan 19 S -123 43 FARSTA, Sweden
E-mail: hakan.sundstrom@curling.se
Fax: +46 8 604 70 78 * Telephone: +46 8 683 30 16
Olympic teams published by the World Curling Federation
Several Olympic and World Champions to participate
Today the World Curling Federation, WCF, published their list of Olympic curlers for Torino 2006. Looking at the list we find several former Olympic and World champions. The whole male Olympic champion team from Salt Lake City 2002 will come back to defend their gold medal. That is Norway with the team Pål Trulsen, Lars Vågberg, Flemming Davanger and Bent Ånund Ramsfjell. Great Britain has kept two gold medallists of their team 2002, the skip Rhona Martin and Debbie Knox.
Among other teams we find the World women champions of 2005, Sweden, with Anette Norberg, Eva Lund, Cathrine Lindahl, Anna Svärd and Ulrika Bergman. The Swedish men are the world champions of 2004, 2001 and 1997, Peja Lindholm, Tomas Nordin, Magnus Swartling, Peter Narup and Anders Kraupp.
Great Britain´s male team is playing with two former world champions, Ewan MacDonald and Warwick Smith from 1999 and in the ladies team Jackie Lockhart won the world gold medal in 2002.
Canada is coming with former World Junior champions from 2001, Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adams. However, the young Canadians have put experience into their team by using Russ Howard as skip and playing second stones. Russ skipped Canada to gold at the World men´s championships both in 1987 and 1993.
Finally Norway´s skip since many years, Dordi Nordby, has two world gold medals from 1990 and 1991. Her young second Marianne Rørvik was World junior champion in 2004. WJCC-winners were also the female American team with Cassandra and Jamie Johnson, Maureen Brunt and Courney George back in 2002.
With this news release I also enclose the whole name list and the draw for the Olympic games in Torino.
Date Time Draw SHEET A SHEET B SHEET C SHEET D BYE
Mon
13 Feb 0900
1400
1900 M1
W1
M2 NZL SWE ITA GBR NOR USA FIN SUI GER & CAN
nor usa can swe sui ita gbr den rus & jpn
GER CAN FIN USA* *GBR NZL ITA SWE* SUI & NOR
Tue
14 Feb 0900
1400
1900 W2
M3
W3 rus jpn sui gbr* *nor swe usa can* den & ita
NOR SUI* *CAN SWE GER ITA* USA NZL* GBR & FIN
ita den* *usa jpn can rus* nor sui* swe & gbr
Wed
15 Feb 0900
1400
1900 M4
W4
M5 *FIN NZL X SWE - NOR* CAN GBR* ITA, SUI, GER, USA
*swe gbr *ita rus *jpn nor den usa* can & sui
USA ITA* GBR NOR* *CAN SUI *GER FIN NZL & SWE
Thu
16 Feb 0900
1400
1900 W5
M6
W6 *can sui jpn den* rus gbr* swe ita* nor & usa
GBR GER* *SUI NZL USA SWE* NOR CAN* ITA & FIN
X *swe usa den sui* can nor* gbr, ita, rus, jpn
Fri
17 Feb 0900
1400
1900 M7
W7
M8 ITA NOR* SWE FIN* X SUI GER* NZL, GBR, USA, CAN
usa rus* nor ita* gbr can* sui swe* den & jpn
SWE GBR* *USA SUI *FIN CAN *NZL ITA NOR & GER
Sat
18 Feb 0900
1400
1900 W8
M9
W9 *gbr ita rus sui* swe den* *jpn can nor & usa
GER USA* CAN ITA* *SUI GBR *FIN NOR NZL & SWE
*jpn swe gbr nor* ita usa* X can, den, sui, rus
Sun
19 Feb 0900
1400
1900 M10
W10
M11 NOR NZL* GER SWE* *ITA FIN GBR USA* SUI & CAN
sui usa* ita can* gbr jpn* *rus den nor & swe
*GBR FIN *NZL CAN *SWE SUI *NOR GER ITA & USA
Mon
20 Feb 0900
1400
1900 W11
M12
W12 *swe rus den nor* X *ita jpn usa, can, gbr, sui
*SUI ITA X NZL GER* *CAN USA SWE, GBR, FIN, NOR
*den can *sui jpn nor rus* usa gbr* swe & ita
Tue
21 Feb 0900
1400
1900 M/W Tiebreaker (if necessary)
M/W Tiebreaker (if necessary)
M/W Tiebreaker (if necessary)
Wed
22 Feb 1400
1900 Women's Semi Finals
Men's Semi Finals
Thu
23 Feb 1300
1730 Women's Bronze Medal
Women's Final + Flower Ceremony
Fri
24 Feb 1300
1730 Men's Bronze Medal
Men's Final + Flower Ceremony
Sat
25 Feb 2000 Mens & Womens Medal Ceremony Medal Plaza, Torino
WORLD CURLING FEDERATION OLYMPIC CURLING COMPETITION
OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES 2006
NAMED TEAMS
CANADA Notes
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Coach
Nat. Coach Women
Shannon Kleibrink
Amy Nixon
Glenys Baker
Christine Keshen
Sandra Jenkins
Daryl Nixon
Elaine Dagg-Jackson Men
Brad Gushue
Mark Nichols
Russ Howard (S)
Jamie Korab
Mike Adams
Toby McDonald
Jim Waite
WJ-gold 2001
WJ-gold 2001
W-gold 1987,-93
WJ-gold 2001
WJ-gold 2001
DENMARK
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Nat. Coach Women
Dorthe Holm OG-silver 1998
Denise Dupont
Lene Nielsen
Malene Krause W-bronze 90
Maria Poulsen
Lasse Lavrsen
Avijaja Lund Järund Men
FINLAND
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Coach Women
Men
Markku Uusipaavalniemi
Ville Mäkelä
Kalle Kiiskinen
Teemu Salo
Jani Sullanmaa
Jari Laukkanen
W-bronze 1998,2000
W-bronze 1998,2000
W-bronze 1998,2000
GBR
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Rhona Martin, OG-gold 2002
Kelly Wood
Jackie Lockhart W-gold 2002
Lynn Cameron
Debbie Knox OG-gold 2002
Russell Keiller Men
David Murdoch, W-silver 2005
Craig Wilson, W-silver 2005
Ewan MacDonald W-gold 1999
Euan Byers W-silver 2005
Warwick Smith, W-gold 1999
Derek Brown
GERMANY
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Coach Women
Men
Andreas Kapp
Ulrich Kapp
Oliver Axnick
Holger Höhne
Andreas Kempf
Richard Henderson
W-silver 1997
W-silver 1997
W-silver 1997
W-silver 1997
ITALY
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Nat. Coach Women
Diana Gaspari
Giulia Lacedelli
Rosa Pompanin
Violetta Caldart
Alverà Eleonora
Roberto Lacedelli
Rodger Schmidt Men
Joel Retornaz
Fabio Alverà
Gian Paolo Zandegiacomo
Antonio Menardi
Mariani Marco
Alessandro Zisa
Hans Peter Ruschke
JAPAN
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Coach
Manager Women
Ayumi Onodera
Yumie Hayashi
Mari Motohashi
Moe Meguro
Sakurako Terada
Sayori Takahashi
Shinya Abe Men
NEW ZEALAND
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Coach Women
Men
Sean Becker
Hans Frauenlob
Dan Mustapic
Lorne DePape
Warren Dobson
Peter Becker
NORWAY
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Coach Women
Dordi Nordby W-gold 1990,-91
Marianne Haslum W-silver -05
Marianne Rørvik W-silver -05
Camilla Holth W-silver -05
Charlotte Hovring Men
Pål Trulsen
Lars Vågberg
Flemming Davanger
Bent Ånund Ramsfjell
Torger Nergård
OG-gold 2002
OG-gold 2002
OG-gold 2002
OG-gold 2002
RUSSIA
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Nat. Coach Women
Liudmila Privivkova
Nkeiruka Ezekh
Yana Nekrasova
Ekaterina Galkina
Olga Zharkova
Olga Andrianova
Yuri Andrianov Men
SWEDEN
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Nat Coach Women
Anette Norberg W-gold 2005
Eva Lund W-gold 2005
Cathrine Lindahl W-gold 05
Anna Svärd W-gold 2005
Ulrika Bergman W-gold 2005
Stefan Lund
Stefan Hasselborg Men
Peja Lindholm
Tomas Nordin
Magnus Swartling
Peter Narup
Anders Kraupp
Lars-Åke Nordström
Stefan Hasselborg
W-gold 1997, 01, 04
W-gold 1997, 01, 04
W-gold 1997, 01, 04
W-gold 1997, 01, 04
W-gold 1997, 01, 04
W-gold 01, 04
SWITZERLAND
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Coach Women
Mirjam Ott
Binia Beeli
Valeria Spaelty
Michèle Moser
Manuela Kormann
Mario Gross/Gaudenz Beeli Men
Ralph Stoeckli
Claudio Pescia
Pascal Sieber
Marco Battilana
Simon Struebin
Patrick Huerlimann/Heinz Schmid
W-silver 2003
W-silver 2003
W-silver 2003
W-silver 2003
W-silver 2003
USA
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Coach Women
Cassandra Johnson W-silver 05
Jamie Johnson W-silver 05
Jessica Schultz W-silver 05
Maureen Brunt W-silver 05
Courtney George W-silver 05
Neil Doese Men
Pete Fenson
Shawn Rojeski
Joe Polo
John Shuster
Scott Baird
Bob Fenson
Notes:
OG-gold is gold medal at Olympic Games
W-gold is gold medal at World Championships
WJ-gold is gold medal at World Junior championships