Xu Xiaoming

Xu Xiaoming
Xu Xiaoming (2014)
birthday	14th September 1984 (age 35)
place of birth	Harbin
Career
nation	People's Republic of China
society	Harbin Curling Club
Playing position	Third
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
PM medals 7 × 1 × 2 × JPM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × UNI medals 0 × 0 × 1 × WAS medals 1 × 0 × 2 ×
Pacific Asian Curling Championships bronze 2006 Tokyo gold 2007 Beijing gold 2008 Naseby gold 2009 Karuizawa gold 2010 Uiseong gold 2011 Ninjing gold 2012 Naseby gold 2013 Shanghai bronze 2015 Almaty silver 2016 Uiseong Junior Pacific Curling Championships bronze 2005 Tokoro gold 2006 Beijing  Winter Universiade bronze 2009 Harbin  Winter Asian Games bronze 2003 Aomori bronze 2007 Changchun gold 2017 Sapporo
last change: December 22, 2017

Xu Xiaoming (born September 14, 1984 in Harbin ) is a Chinese curler . He is a member of the Harbin Curling Club and currently plays third in the Chinese national team under Skip Liu Rui .

Xu was the skip of the first team of the People's Republic, which took part in the Pacific Championship in 2002 . He led his team to the first medal at the 2005 Pacific Junior Championship . He then moved to third position and won the bronze medal and gold in the juniors at the 2006 Pacific Championships under Skip Wang Binjiang . With Skip Wang Fengchun he became Pacific Champion in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 . Further gold medals followed in 2011, 2012 and 2013 under Liu Rui as Skip . In 2015 he won the bronze medal with Skip Zang Jialiang with the Chinese team. At the Pacific Asia Cup in 2016 he was back with Liu Rui as Skip and won the silver medal.

At the World Championships following the victories at the Pacific Championship, fourth place in 2008 was the best placement.

In February 2010, Xu 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 played third under Skip Liu Riu. 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 .

Web links

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