World Wheelchair Curling Championship

World Wheelchair Curling Championship
Established	2002
2016 host city	Lucerne, Switzerland
2016 arena	Eiszentrum Luzern
2016 champion	Russia
Current edition
2016 World Wheelchair Curling Championship

The World Wheelchair Curling Championship is an annual world championship held to determine the world's best team in wheelchair curling. It is held every non-Paralympic year.

Medalists

Following is a list of medalists:^[1]

Year	Host	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2002	Switzerland (Sursee)	Switzerland Urs Bucher Cesare Cassani Manfred Bolliger Terese Kämpfer Silvia Obrist	Canada Chris Daw Don Bell Jim Primavera Karen Blachford Richard Fraser	Scotland Frank Duffy Alex Harvey Michael McCreadie Elaine Lister James Sellar
2004	Switzerland (Sursee)	Scotland Frank Duffy Michael McCreadie Ken Dickson Angie Malone James Sellar	Switzerland Urs Bucher Manfred Bolliger Cesare Cassani Terese Kämpfer Otto Erb	Canada Chris Daw Bruce McAninch Jim Primavera Karen Blachford
2005	Scotland (Braehead)	Scotland Frank Duffy Michael McCreadie Tom Killin Angie Malone Ken Dickson	Denmark Kenneth Ørbæk Rosita Jensen Jørn Kristensen Bjarne Jensen Sussie Pedersen	Switzerland Urs Bucher Mafred Bolliger Cesare Cassani Terese Kämpfer Erwin Lauper
2007	Sweden (Sollefteå)	Norway Rune Lorentsen Geir Arne Skogstad Jostein Stordahl Lene Tystad Trine Fissum	Switzerland Manfred Bolliger Erwin Lauper Cesare Cassani Madeleine Wildi Claudia Tosse	Scotland Michael McCreadie Aileen Neilson James Sellar Angie Malone James Elliott
2008	Switzerland (Sursee)	Norway Rune Lorentsen Jostein Stordahl Geir Arne Skogstad Lene Tystad Anne Mette Samdal	South Korea Kim Hak-sung Kim Myung-jin Cho Yang-hyun Kang Mi-suk Ham Dong-hee	United States James Pierce Augusto Perez James Joseph Jacqueline Kapinowski Bob Prenoveau
2009	Canada (Vancouver)	Canada Jim Armstrong Darryl Neighbour Ina Forrest Chris Sobkowicz Sonja Gaudet	Sweden Jalle Jungnell Glenn Ikonen Patrik Burman Anette Wilhelm	Germany Jens Jäger Marcus Sieger Jens Gäbel Caren Totzauer Astrid Hoer
2011	Czech Republic (Prague)	Canada Jim Armstrong Darryl Neighbour Ina Forrest Sonja Gaudet Bruno Yizek	Scotland Aileen Neilson Tom Killin Gregor Ewan Angie Malone Michael McKenzie	Norway Rune Lorentsen Jostein Stordahl Tone Edvardsen Terje Rafdal Runar Bjørnstad
2012	South Korea (Chuncheon City)[2]	Russia Andrey Smirnov Marat Romanov Aleksandr Shevchenko Svetlana Pakhomova Oxana Slesarenko	South Korea Kim Hak-sung Jung Seoung-won Noh Byeong-Il Kang Mi-suk Bang Min-ja	China Wang Haitao Liu Wei He Jun Xu Guangqin Zhang Qiang
2013	Russia (Sochi)[3]	Canada Jim Armstrong Dennis Thiessen Ina Forrest Sonja Gaudet Mark Ideson	Sweden Jalle Jungnell Glenn Ikonen Patrik Kallin Kristina Ulander Gert Erlandsson	China Wang Haitao Liu Wei Xu Guangqin He Jun Zhang Qiang
2015	Finland (Lohja)[4]	Russia Andrey Smirnov Marat Romanov Oxana Slesarenko Alexander Shevchenko Svetlana Pakhomova	China Wang Haitao Liu Wei Zhang Qiang Xu Guangqin He Jun	Finland Markku Karjalainen Sari Karjalainen Mina Mojtahedi Tuomo Aarnikka Vesa Leppanen
2016	Switzerland (Lucerne)[5]	Russia Andrey Smirnov Konstantin Kurokhtin Svetlana Pakhomova Alexander Shevchenko Marat Romanov	Norway Rune Lorentsen Jostein Stordahl Ole Fredrik Syversen Sissel Løchen Jan-Erik Hansen	South Korea Yang Hui-tae Jung Seung-won Seo Soon-seok Bang Min-ja Cha Jae-goan
2017	Korea (Gangneung)
2019	Scotland (Stirling)[6]

All-time Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	3	1	1	5
2	Russia	3	0	0	3
3	Scotland	2	1	2	5
4	Norway	2	1	1	4
5	Switzerland	1	2	1	4
6	South Korea	0	2	1	3
6	Sweden	0	2	0	2
7	China	0	1	2	3
8	Denmark	0	1	0	1
9	Germany	0	0	1	1
9	United States	0	0	1	1
9	Finland	0	0	1	1
Total		9	9	9	27

References

1. Events Wheelchaircurling.com
2. Curling Chuncheon City South Korea to host 2012 World Wheelchair Championship International Paralympic Committee (IPC) February 23, 2011
3. "WCF President impressed by Sochi 2014 event progress". World Curling Federation. 18 October 2011.
4. "Lohja, Finland to host World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2015". World Curling Federation. 29 January 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
5. "World Wheelchair Curling Championship 2016 to be held in Lucerne, Switzerland". World Curling Federation. 3 January 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
6. "http://worldcurling.org/scotland-awarded-four-international-curling-championships". World Curling Federation. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014. External link in |title= (help)