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 Men’s & Women’s Medal Ceremony – Medal Plaza, Torino WORLD CURLING FEDERATION OLYMPIC CURLING COMPETITION OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES 2006 NAMED TEAMS CANADA Notes Skip 3 2 1 Alternate 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 Skip 3 2 1 Alternate Coach 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 Skip 3 2 1 Alternate 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 Skip 3 2 1 Alternate Coach Women 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 Skip 3 2 1 Alternate 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 Skip 3 2 1 Alternate Coach 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 Skip 3 2 1 Alternate Coach Manager Women Ayumi Onodera Yumie Hayashi Mari Motohashi Moe Meguro Sakurako Terada Sayori Takahashi Shinya Abe Men NEW ZEALAND Skip 3 2 1 Alternate Coach Women Men Sean Becker Hans Frauenlob Dan Mustapic Lorne DePape Warren Dobson Peter Becker NORWAY Skip 3 2 1 Alternate 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 Skip 3 2 1 Alternate Coach Nat. Coach Women Liudmila Privivkova Nkeiruka Ezekh Yana Nekrasova Ekaterina Galkina Olga Zharkova Olga Andrianova Yuri Andrianov Men SWEDEN Skip 3 2 1 Alternate Coach 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 Skip 3 2 1 Alternate 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 Skip 3 2 1 Alternate 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