Wheelchair curling at the Winter Paralympics

Wheelchair curling at the Winter Paralympics
Governing body WCF
Events 1 (mixed)
Games
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2002 2006 2010 2014
Medalists

Wheelchair curling tournaments have been staged at the Paralympic Games since the Winter Paralympic Games in 2006 in Turin.

The tournaments are staged for mixed gender teams.

Canada has been the most successful team in the tournaments, winning three of three gold medals.

Participating nations

The final placement for each team in each tournament is shown in the following tables.

Mixed tournament
Nation 2006 2010 2014 Years
Canada 3
China 4 1
Denmark 4 1
Finland 10 1
Germany 8 1
Great Britain 7 3
Italy 7 5 2
Japan 9 1
Norway 5 6 9 3
South Korea 8 2
Russia 1
Slovakia 5 1
Sweden 7 3
Switzerland 6 10 2
United States 8 4 6 3

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Canada 3 0 0 3
2 Great Britain 0 1 1 2
3 Russia 0 1 0 1
South Korea 0 1 0 1
4 Sweden 0 0 2 2
Total 3 3 3 9

Medal summary

Mixed

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2006 Torino  Canada (CAN)
Chris Daw
Gerry Austgarden
Gary Cormack
Sonja Gaudet
Karen Blachford
 Great Britain (GBR)
Frank Duffy
Michael McCreadie
Tom Killin
Angie Malone
Ken Dickson
 Sweden (SWE)
Jalle Jungnell
Glenn Ikonen
Rolf Johansson
Anette Wilhelm
Bernt Sjoeberg
2010 Vancouver  Canada (CAN)
Jim Armstrong
Darryl Neighbour
Ina Forrest
Sonja Gaudet
Bruno Yizek
 South Korea (KOR)
Haksung Kim
Myungjin Kim
Yanghyun Cho
Misuk Kang
Gilwoo Park
 Sweden (SWE)
Jalle Jungnell
Glenn Ikonen*
Patrik Burman
Anette Wilhelm
Patrik Kallin
2014 Sochi  Canada (CAN)
Jim Armstrong
Dennis Thiessen
Ina Forrest
Sonja Gaudet
Mark Ideson
 Russia (RUS)
Andrei Smirnov
Alexander Shevchenko
Svetlana Pakhomova
Marat Romanov
Oksana Slesarenko
 Great Britain (GBR)
Aileen Neilson
Gregor Ewan
Bob McPherson
Jim Gault
Angie Malone

Tournaments

Year Host Gold medal game Bronze medal game
Gold medalist Score Silver medalist Bronze medalist Score Fourth place
2006
details
Torino
Canada
7–4
Great Britain

Sweden
10–2
Norway
2010
details
Vancouver
Canada
8–7
South Korea

Sweden
7–5
United States
2014
details
Sochi
Canada
8-3
Russia

Great Britain
7-3
China

See also

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