Men's Curling World Championship 1997

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Venue: Bern, Switzerland
The Allmend ice rink in Bern.

The Curling World Championship for Men 1997 (official: Ford World Men's Curling Championship in 1997 ) was the 39th staging (including Scotch Cup ) World Championships in curling of Lords. It was held from April 12th to 20th of that year in the Swiss federal city of Bern in the Allmend ice rink .

The World Curling Championships the men was in a round-robin tournament ( round-robin ) between the teams from Scotland , Canada , the United States , Germany , Sweden , Australia , the Switzerland , Denmark , Norway and Finland played out.

The games were scheduled for ten ends .

For the third time after 1973 and 1977 , Sweden finished a men's curling world championship as the winner. The final opponent was the German team, which led 2-1 stones until the seventh end. The preliminary decision fell in End 7, in which the Swedes were able to place four stones in the house. The final score was 6: 3 after nine ends. Germany also lost a World Cup final in the third attempt after 1983 and 1987 .

Scotland beat defending champions Canada 8: 4 in a duel for the bronze medal.

Participating Nations

AustraliaAustralia Australia DenmarkDenmark Denmark GermanyGermany Germany ItalyItaly Italy CanadaCanada Canada
Sydney Harbor CC , Sydney

Skip: Hugh Millikin
Third: Gerald Chick
Second: Stephen John's
Lead: Stephen Hewitt
Substitute: Jonathan Wade

Hvidovre CC , Hvidovre

Skip: Ulrik Schmidt
Third: Lasse Lavrsen
Second: Brian Hansen
Lead: Ulrik Damm
Substitute: Carsten Svensgaard

CC Füssen , Füssen

Skip: Andreas Kapp
Third: Ulrich Kapp
Second: Oliver Axnick
Lead: Holger Höhne
Replacement: Michael Schäffer

Hyvinkää CC , Hyvinkää

Skip: Markku Uusipaavalniemi
Third: Wille Mäkelä
Second: Jussi Uusipaavalniemi
Lead: Tommi Häti
Substitute: Jouni Weckman

Ottewell CC , Edmonton , AB

Skip: Kevin Martin
Third: Don Walchuk
Second: Rudy Ramcharan
Lead: Don Bartlett
Substitute: Jules Owchar

NorwayNorway Norway ScotlandScotland Scotland SwedenSweden Sweden SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland United StatesUnited States United States
Stabekk CC , Oslo

Skip: Pål Trulsen
Third: Lars Vågberg
Second: Bent Ånund Ramsfjell
Lead: Knut Ivar Moe
Substitute: Morten Halsa

Castle Kennedy CC , Stranraer

Skip: Hammy McMillan
Third: Norman Brown
Second: Mike Hay
Lead: Brian Binnie
Substitute: Peter Loudon

Östersunds CK , Östersund

Skip: Peja Lindholm
Third: Tomas Nordin
Second: Magnus Swartling
Lead: Peter Narup
Substitute: Marcus Feldt

Basel-Ysfäger CC , Basel

Skip: Patrick Netzer
Third: Markus Widmer
Second: Damian Grichting
Lead: Fabian Burckhardt
Substitute: Tobias Treyer

Langdon CC , Langdon , ND

Skip: Craig Disher
Third: Kevin Kakela
Second: Joel Jacobson
Lead: Paul Peterson
Substitute: Randy Darling

Table of Round Robin

key
Qualified for the play-offs
space team Games Victories Ndlg.
1. CanadaCanada Canada 9 7th 2
2. ScotlandScotland Scotland 9 7th 2
3. GermanyGermany Germany 9 6th 3
4th SwedenSweden Sweden 9 6th 3
5. DenmarkDenmark Denmark 9 5 4th
6th United StatesUnited States United States 9 4th 5
7th AustraliaAustralia Australia 9 3 6th
7th NorwayNorway Norway 9 3 6th
7th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 9 3 6th
10. FinlandFinland Finland 9 1 8th

Round Robin results

Round 1

CanadaCanada Canada SwedenSweden Sweden
9 6th
GermanyGermany Germany FinlandFinland Finland
7th 6th
United StatesUnited States United States AustraliaAustralia Australia
9 5
ScotlandScotland Scotland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
3 6th
NorwayNorway Norway DenmarkDenmark Denmark
5 7th

Round 3

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland DenmarkDenmark Denmark
3 8th
ScotlandScotland Scotland SwedenSweden Sweden
8th 3
GermanyGermany Germany NorwayNorway Norway
5 4th
AustraliaAustralia Australia CanadaCanada Canada
5 8th
United StatesUnited States United States FinlandFinland Finland
5 6th

Round 5

United StatesUnited States United States NorwayNorway Norway
6th 5
AustraliaAustralia Australia GermanyGermany Germany
8th 6th
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland SwedenSweden Sweden
4th 12
FinlandFinland Finland ScotlandScotland Scotland
1 9
DenmarkDenmark Denmark CanadaCanada Canada
8th 6th

Round 7

FinlandFinland Finland CanadaCanada Canada
2 10
SwedenSweden Sweden DenmarkDenmark Denmark
6th 4th
ScotlandScotland Scotland GermanyGermany Germany
5 2
NorwayNorway Norway AustraliaAustralia Australia
7th 6th
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland United StatesUnited States United States
8th 6th

Round 9

ScotlandScotland Scotland United StatesUnited States United States
7th 6th
FinlandFinland Finland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
7th 9
NorwayNorway Norway CanadaCanada Canada
6th 11
DenmarkDenmark Denmark GermanyGermany Germany
6th 7th
AustraliaAustralia Australia SwedenSweden Sweden
5 7th

round 2

NorwayNorway Norway FinlandFinland Finland
7th 5
DenmarkDenmark Denmark AustraliaAustralia Australia
4th 3
CanadaCanada Canada ScotlandScotland Scotland
7th 6th
United StatesUnited States United States SwedenSweden Sweden
7th 8th
GermanyGermany Germany SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
5 4th

Round 4

SwedenSweden Sweden GermanyGermany Germany
3 12
CanadaCanada Canada United StatesUnited States United States
7th 5
FinlandFinland Finland DenmarkDenmark Denmark
4th 7th
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland NorwayNorway Norway
5 7th
ScotlandScotland Scotland AustraliaAustralia Australia
9 5

Round 6

DenmarkDenmark Denmark ScotlandScotland Scotland
3 5
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland CanadaCanada Canada
4th 7th
AustraliaAustralia Australia FinlandFinland Finland
8th 4th
GermanyGermany Germany United StatesUnited States United States
6th 8th
SwedenSweden Sweden NorwayNorway Norway
6th 4th

Round 8

AustraliaAustralia Australia SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
8th 7th
NorwayNorway Norway ScotlandScotland Scotland
4th 5
DenmarkDenmark Denmark United StatesUnited States United States
8th 9
SwedenSweden Sweden FinlandFinland Finland
8th 7th
CanadaCanada Canada GermanyGermany Germany
6th 7th

Play-off

Tournament tree

  Semifinals     final
                 
 
  1  CanadaCanada Canada 4th  
  4th  SwedenSweden Sweden 6th    
      4th  SwedenSweden Sweden 6th
      3  GermanyGermany Germany 3
  2  ScotlandScotland Scotland 3      
  3  GermanyGermany Germany 6th      
  Game for the bronze medal
 
  1  CanadaCanada Canada 4th
  2  ScotlandScotland Scotland 8th

Semifinals

SwedenSweden Sweden CanadaCanada Canada
6th 4th
ScotlandScotland Scotland GermanyGermany Germany
3 6th

Game for the bronze medal

ScotlandScotland Scotland CanadaCanada Canada
8th 4th

final

team
1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 total
SwedenSweden Sweden
0 0 1 0 0 0 4th 0 1 X 6th
GermanyGermany Germany
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 3

Final score

space country
1 SwedenSweden Sweden
2 GermanyGermany Germany
3 ScotlandScotland Scotland
4th CanadaCanada Canada
5 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
6th United StatesUnited States United States
7th AustraliaAustralia Australia
7th NorwayNorway Norway
7th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
10 FinlandFinland Finland

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