Wang Rui (curler)

Wang Rui
birthday	9th February 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Harbin, China
Career
nation	People's Republic of China
society	Harbin CC
Playing position	Third
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
MD World Championship medals 0 × 1 × 1 × PAM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × J-PAM medals 0 × 2 × 1 × WAS medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Curling Mixed Doubles World Championship silver 2016 Karlstad bronze 2017 Lethbridge Curling Pacific Asian Championship gold 2014 Karuizawa silver 2015 Almaty Junior Pacific Asian Championships bronze 2012 Jeonju silver 2014 Harbin silver 2015 Naseby  Winter Asian Games gold 2017 Sapporo
last change: December 28, 2017

Wang Rui ( Chinese  王 芮 , Pinyin Wáng Ruì ; born February 9, 1995 in Harbin ) is a Chinese curler . She currently plays third in the Chinese national team.

She began her international career at the Junior Pacific Asian Championships in 2011, where she was fourth in She Qiutong's team . She won her first medal the following year on Jiang Yilun's team when she finished third. In 2014 she played third and won the silver medal. She was able to repeat this success in 2015.

At the Pacific Asia Cup 2014 she played as lead in Liu Sijia's team and won the gold medal with Skip Kim Eun-jung after beating South Korea in the final . She won the bronze medal at the 2015 Pacific Asian Cup .

At her first World Cup in 2014 , she played second for Liu Sijia and came in seventh. This was followed by a fifth place in 2015 and an eleventh place in 2017 (with Skip Wang Bingyu ).

In 2016 she played for the first time at the Mixed Doubles World Championship and won the silver medal with Ba Dexin . In 2017 she played again with Ba and won the bronze medal. In December 2017, she secured China at the Olympic qualification tournament in  Pilsen  as third in Wang Bingyu's team, one of the last two starting places for the women's team competition at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games  in  Pyeongchang . However, she was not nominated for the women's Olympic team.

Wang was still able to take part in the 2018 Winter Games, as China qualified for the first mixed doubles competition thanks to its success at the two Mixed Doubles World Championships. Together with Ba Dexin she came in Pyeongchang after the Round Robin on a shared fourth place 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.

At the 2018 World Cup , she played third on the team led by Jiang Yilun and finished seventh.

Web links

• Wang Rui (curler) on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ China women qualify for PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. In: Olympic Qualification Event 2017. World Curling Federation, December 9, 2017, accessed December 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ 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). 
3. ↑ 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. Wang is the family name here, Rui is the first name.