Liu Rui

Liu Rui
birthday	13th March 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Harbin
Career
nation	People's Republic of China
society	Harbin Curling Club
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
PAM medals 6 × 1 × 1 × UNI medals 0 × 0 × 1 × WAS medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Pacific Asian Curling Championships bronze 2006 Tokyo gold 2007 Beijing gold 2008 Naseby gold 2009 Karuizawa gold 2011 Ninjing gold 2012 Naseby gold 2013 Shanghai silver 2016 Uiseong  Winter Universiade bronze 2009 Harbin  Winter Asian Games bronze 2007 Changchun gold 2017 Sapporo
last change: December 22, 2017

Liu Rui ( Chinese  刘锐 , Pinyin Liú Ruì ; born March 13, 1982 in Harbin ) is a Chinese curler . He is a member of the Harbin Curling Club and currently plays as the skip of the Chinese national team.

Liu's greatest successes were victories at the Curling Pacific Asian Championships in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013, a second place in this competition (2016), victory at the Winter Asian Games 2017 , the bronze medal at the Winter Universiade 2009 and reaching the finals at the 2008 World Cup .

At the 2009 World Cup , after his team lost all of the first games, he played the last two stones in the later matches of the preliminary round, while Wang Fengchun moved to third position, but continued to perform the function of skip. So there are four more victories, including against eventual world champions Scotland, but no longer making it into the finals. Further world championships followed in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2017; the best placement came in 2017 with fifth place.

In February 2010, Liu took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (Canada) as a member of the Chinese team . The team took eighth place. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he led the Chinese national team as Skip. 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 Olympic qualification tournament in December 2017, he was only able to achieve fifth place with the Chinese men's team and thus missed the qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics .

Liu also plays on the World Curling Tour and won several competitions there.

Web links

• Liu Rui on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Liu Rui in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rui Liu. In: worldcurl.com. Retrieved July 28, 2018 . 

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