World Curling Championship
The World Curling Championships are annual tournaments to determine the world's best curling teams. Since its inception, the World Championships have been dominated by Canada . However, Switzerland , Sweden , Denmark , Germany , Scotland , the USA and Norway have won at least once. The world championships are organized by the World Curling Federation .
history
1959 took place in Scotland with the Scotch Cup for the first time the forerunner of today's curling world championships; then Scotland played against Canada. From 1961 to 1967 the number of participating teams varied between three and eight. In 1968 the Scotch Cup was given the status of an official curling world championship.
The first women's world championships took place in 1979 and were held separately from the men's world championships until 1988, and together from 1989 to 2004. Since 2005 the men's and women's competitions have been held separately again. One of the two world championships is to be held in Canada every year. Gold, silver and bronze medals have been awarded from 1968 to 1988 and since 1995. From 1989 to 1994 both the third and fourth placed received a bronze medal.
name of the event
Since its inception, the official name of the World Curling Championship has been changed several times, mostly in line with the brand name of the main sponsor:
Men's
- 1959-1967: Scotch Cup
- 1968–1985: Air Canada Silver Broom
- 1986–1988: IOC President's Cup (Hexagon)
- 1989–1990: World Curling Championships
- 1991–1992: Canada Safeway World Curling Championships
- 1993–1994: World Curling Championships
- 1995-2004: Ford World Curling Championships
- 2005: Ford World Men's Curling Championships
- 2006: World Men's Curling Championships
- 2007: Ford World Men's Curling Championships
- 2008: World Men's Curling Championships
- 2009: Ford World Men's Curling Championships
- 2010: Capital One World Men's Curling Championships
- 2011: Ford World Men's Curling Championships
- 2012: Capital One World Men's Curling Championship
- 2013: Ford World Men's Curling Championships
- 2014: CPT World Men's Curling Championships
- 2015: Ford World Men's Curling Championships
- 2016: World Men's Curling Championship
- 2017: Ford World Men's Curling Championships
- 2018: 361 ° World Men's Curling Championship
- 2019: Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship
Ladies
- 1979–1981: Royal Bank of Scotland World Curling Championships
- 1982: World Curling Championships
- 1983: Pioneer Life World Curling Championships
- 1984: World Curling Championships
- 1985: H&M World Curling Championships
- 1986–1990: World Curling Championships
- 1991–1992: Canada Safeway World Curling Championships
- 1993–1994: World Curling Championships
- 1995-2004: Ford World Curling Championships
- 2005: World Women's Curling Championships
- 2006: Ford World Women's Curling Championships
- 2007: World Women's Curling Championships
- 2008: Ford World Women's Curling Championships
- 2009: The Mount Titlis World Women's Curling Championships
- 2010: Ford World Women's Curling Championships
- 2011: Capital One World Women's Curling Championships
- 2012: World Women's Curling Championship
- 2013: Titlis Glacier Mountain World Women's Curling Championship
- 2014: Ford World Women's Curling Championships
- 2015: Zen-Noh World Women's Curling Championships
- 2016: Ford World Women's Curling Championships
- 2017: CPT World Women's Curling Championship
- 2018: Ford World Women's Curling Championship
- 2019: LGT World Women's Curling Championship
Men's World Championships
Overview
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Medal table
After 61 world championships (as of 2019). From 1989 to 1994 two bronze medals were awarded.
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | Total |
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| 1 |
 Canada
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36 | 11 | 7th | 53 |
| 2 |
 Sweden
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9 | 8th | 7th | 23 |
| 3 |
 Scotland
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5 | 20th | 9 | 34 |
| 4th |
 United States
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4th | 5 | 13 | 22nd |
| 5 |
 Norway
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4th | 5 | 9 | 18th |
| 6th |
 Switzerland
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3 | 6th | 9 | 19th |
| 7th |
 Germany
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- | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 8th |
 Denmark
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- | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 |
 Finland
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- | - | 2 | 2 |
| 10 |
 France
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- | - | 1 | 1 |
| total | 61 | 61 | 65 | 187 |
Women's World Championships
Overview
Medal table
After 41 world championships (as of March 25, 2019). In 1979 and from 1989 to 1994 two bronze medals were awarded.
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | Total |
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| 1 |
Canada
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17th | 8th | 9 | 34 |
| 2 |
Sweden
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8th | 10 | 7th | 25th |
| 3 |
Switzerland
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7th | 2 | 5 | 14th |
| 4th |
Norway
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2 | 4th | 7th | 13 |
| 5 |
Scotland
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2 | 4th | 6th | 12 |
| 6th |
Germany
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2 | 3 | 3 | 8th |
| 7th |
United States
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1 | 5 | - | 6th |
| 8th |
Denmark
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1 | 2 | 5 | 8th |
| 9 |
 People's Republic of China
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1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 |
 Russia
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- | 1 | 4th | 5 |
| 11 |
 Japan
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- | 1 | - | 1 |
| 11 |
 South Korea
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- | - | 1 | 1 |
| total | 41 | 41 | 48 | 130 |
Timeline
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United States
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| country | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 |
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Denmark
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6th | 4th | 8th | 8th | 11 | 8th | 7th | 12 | 11 | 39 |
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United States
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5 | 7th | 5 | 4th | 6th | 10 | 6th | 5 | 4th | 40 |
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Curling Mixed Doubles World Championships
Mixed curling world championships
World wheelchair curling championships
Junior World Curling Championships
Senior World Curling Championships
Web links
- worldcurling.org: Website of the World Curling Federation (English)
- results.worldcurling.org: WCF results database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prince George, Canada to host World Women's Curling Championship 2020 , from: worldcurling.org, February 5, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019
- ↑ Prince George, Canada to host World Women's Curling Championship 2020 , from: worldcurling.org, February 5, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019
- ↑ Homepage of the LGT World Women's Curling Championship Schaffhausen Switzerland 2021