Liu Rui

Liu Rui 刘锐
Curler
Team
Curling club	Harbin CC, Harbin, Heilongjiang
Skip	Liu Rui
Third	Xu Xiaoming
Second	Ba Dexin
Lead	Zang Jialiang
Alternate	Zou Dejia
Career
World Championship appearances	5 (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013)
Pacific Championship appearances	9 (2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Olympic appearances	2 (2010, 2014)
Medal record Curling Representing  China Pacific-Asia Championships 2007 Beijing 2008 Naseby 2009 Karuizawa 2011 Nanjing 2012 Naseby 2013 Shanghai 2006 Tokyo Winter Universiade 2009 Harbin Asian Winter Games 2007 Changchun New Zealand Winter Games 2009 Naseby 2011 Naseby

Liu Rui (simplified Chinese: 刘锐; traditional Chinese: 劉銳; pinyin: Liú Ruì; born March 13, 1982 in Harbin, Heilongjiang; sometimes known as Rui Lui) is a Chinese curler. He is the skip of the Chinese men's Olympic Curling Team.

After a slow start in the 2009 World Men's Curling Championship, Liu switched to throw 4th stones while Fengchun Wang continued to call the game and throw 3rd stones.^[1]

Teams

Event	Skip	3rd	2nd	Lead	Alternate	Result
2013 PCC	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Ba Dexin	Zang Jialiang	Zou Dejia	1st (8–4)
2013 WCC	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Ba Dexin	Zang Jialiang	Zou Dejia	6th (6–5)
2012 PCC	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Zang Jialiang	Ba Dexin	Zou Dejia	1st (8–1)
2012 WCC	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Ba Dexin	Zang Jialiang	Chen Lu'an	6th (6–5)
2011 PCC	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Ba Dexin	Chen Lu'an	Zang Jialiang	1st (11–1)
2010 WCC	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Wang Fengchun	Zang Jialiang	Ba Dexin	11th (3–8)
2010 OWG	Liu Rui	Wang Fengchun	Xu Xiaoming	Zang Jialiang	Li Hongchen	T-8th (2–7)
2009 PCC	Wang Fengchun	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Li Hongchen	Zang Jialiang	1st (12–0)
2009 WCC	Wang Fengchun	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Zang Jialiang	Chen Lu'an	9th (4–7)
2009 Winter Universiade	Wang Fengchun	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Zang Jialiang	Chen Lu'an	3rd (8–4)
2008 PCC	Wang Fengchun	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Zang Jialiang	Chen Lu'an	1st (10–3)
2008 WCC	Wang Fengchun	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Zang Jialiang	Li Dongyan	4th (7–6)
2007 PCC [2]	Wang Fengchun	Xu Xiaoming	Liu Rui	Zhang Zhipeng	Zang Jialiang	1st (6–2)
2007 AWG	Wang Binjiang	Wang Fengchun	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Zang Jialiang	3rd (4–3)
2006 PCC	Wang Binjiang	Wang Fengchun	Xu Xiaoming	Liu Rui	Zang Jialiang	3rd (5–4)
2005 PCC	Xu Xiaoming	Li Hongchen	Wang Fengchun	Liu Rui	Ma Yongjun	4th (5–4)
2002 PCC	Xu Xiaoming	Wang Fengchun	Zhu Yu	Liu Rui	Ma Yongjun	5th (3–7)

Rui Liu was part of the 2008 Continental Cup of Curling.

Grand Slam record

Key
C	Champion
F	Lost in Final
SF	Lost in Semifinal
QF	Lost in Quarterfinals
R16	Lost in the round of 16
Q	Did not advance to playoffs
T2	Played in Tier 2 event
DNP	Did not participate in event
N/A	Not a Grand Slam event that season

Event	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14
Masters / World Cup	DNP	Q	DNP	DNP	DNP	SF
Canadian Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The National	Q	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
Players'	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

References

• Liu Rui on the World Curling Federation database

• Liu Rui on the World Curling Tour database

1. Graveland, Bill (2009-04-06). "Canada wins fifth straight at world men's curling championship". Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada: The Canadian Press. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
2. "Chinese curling attracts younger crowd". China Daily. 2007-11-29. Retrieved 3 March 2010.