Ba dexin

Ba dexin
birthday	14th June 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Harbin
Career
nation	People's Republic of China
society	Harbin Curling Club
Playing position	Second
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
MD World Championship medals 0 × 1 × 1 × PAM medals 5 × 0 × 1 × JPAM medals 2 × 0 × 0 × WAS medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Curling Mixed Doubles World Championship silver 2016 Karlstad bronze 2017 Lethbridge Pacific Asian Curling Championships gold 2010 Karuizawa gold 2011 Ninjing gold 2012 Naseby gold 2013 Shanghai gold 2014 Karuizawa bronze 2015 Almaty Junior Pacific Asian Championships gold 2010 Nayoro gold 2011 Naseby  Winter Asian Games gold 2017 Sapporo
last change: December 29, 2017

Ba Dexin ( Chinese  巴德 鑫 , Pinyin Bā Déxīn ; born June 14, 1990 in Harbin ) is a Chinese curler. He is currently playing second in the Chinese national team around Skip Liu Rui and in mixed doubles with Wang Rui .

Ba played for the first time internationally at the Junior Pacific Championship in 2010 as a second in Ji Yansong's team and won the gold medal. The team qualified for the 2010 Junior World Championship , where it came fourth. At the Junior Pacific Championship in 2011 he won the gold medal again with Skip Huang Ji Hui .

Ba has participated in the Pacific Asia Championship six times in a row as lead or second (from 2010 to 2015) and won the gold medal every time except for one (2015, bronze).

In his first World Cup in 2010 , he played as a substitute for Liu Rui's team; the team took eleventh place. Between 2011 and 2017 he took part in every world championship with the exception of 2016. The best placement was a fifth place at the 2017 World Cup as second in Liu Rui's team.

Ba was second in the Chinese team to take part in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing . The team made it to the play-offs, but lost in the semi-finals against Canada with Skip  Brad Jacobs  and in the third place match against Sweden with Skip  Niklas Edin .

At the Mixed Doubles World Championship in 2016 he won the silver medal together with Wang Rui; in the final, the two of the Russian team with Anastassija Brysgalowa and Alexander Kruschelnizki lost . At the Mixed Doubles World Championship 2017 , Ba and Wang lost in the semifinals against the Canadian team with Joanne Courtney and Reid Carruthers , but were able to win the game for third place against the Czech Republic ( Tomáš Paul  and Zuzana Hájková ). Thanks to its success at the two world championships, China qualified for the mixed doubles competition, which was held for the first time at the 2018 Winter Olympics . Together with Wang Rui he came in fourth place after the Round Robin and had to play a tie-breaker against Norway for a place in the semi-finals. The Chinese lost the game against Magnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien 7-9 and finished fifth. After the positive doping results from Alexander Kruschelnizki and the disqualification of the Olympic Athletes from Russia team , they moved up to fourth place.

Web links

• Ba Dexin on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic mixed doubles places now known for PyeongChang 2018. In: World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2017. World Curling Federation, April 29, 2017, accessed on December 29, 2017 (English). 
2. ↑ Final Standings - Mixed Doubles. In: olympic.org. World Curling Federation, accessed February 23, 2018 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ba is the family name here, Dexin is the first name.