2022 World Qualification Event

The 2022 World Qualification Event for the World Curling Championships was held from January 18 to 22 at the Kisakallio Sports Institute in Lohja, Finland.^[1] The competition originally consisted of sixteen teams divided evenly into men's and women's divisions. The Brazilian Men's Team and the Kazakh Women's Team were removed from the competition schedule days before the tournament due to travel complications, leaving the competition with fourteen teams divided evenly into each division.^[2] The top two teams in the men's division qualified to compete at the 2022 World Men's Championship and similarly the top two teams in the women's division qualified to compete at the 2022 World Women's Championship.

2022 World Qualification Event
Host city	Lohja, Finland
Arena	Kisakallio Sports Institute
Dates	January 18–22
Men's winner	Russia
Skip	Sergey Glukhov
Third	Evgeny Klimov
Second	Dmitry Mironov
Lead	Anton Kalalb
Alternate	Daniil Goriachev
Coach	Aleksandr Kozyrev Svetlana Kalalb
Finalist	Netherlands (Gösgens)
Women's winner	Denmark
Skip	Madeleine Dupont
Third	Mathilde Halse
Second	Denise Dupont
Lead	My Larsen
Coach	Heather Rogers
Finalist	Norway (Rørvik)
« 2020

On January 17, one day before the competition began, the Czech Republic women's team skipped by Alžběta Baudyšová had to withdraw from the competition due to two positive COVID-19 cases within the team.^[3] The Czech Curling Association had the option to send a replacement team to the event, but they declined.

In the men's division, Russia and the Netherlands both qualified for the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship. Russia defeated the Dutch team 6–3 in the first qualification final to earn their spot in the championship.^[4] The Netherlands then bounced back with a 9–4 victory over Finland to claim the final spot in the World Men's Championship.

On the women's side, Denmark and Norway both secured spots in the 2022 World Women's Curling Championship. Denmark won 7–6 over the Norwegian team in the first final and then Norway defeated Latvia 8–6 in the second final.^[4]

Men

Qualification

Eight men's teams will qualify to participate in the 2022 World Qualification Event, through the following methods:^[1]

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	1	Finland
2021 Americas Challenge	0	Brazil
2021 European Curling Championships	4	Netherlands  Turkey  Russia  Spain
2021 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships	2	Japan  Chinese Taipei
TOTAL	7

Note: The Brazilian Men's Team qualified for this event, but they were unable to attend due to travel complications.

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[5]

Chinese Taipei	Finland	Japan	Netherlands
Skip: Lin Ting-li Third: Nelson Wang Second: Yin Liu Luis Lead: Cheng Kai-wen Alternate: Darren Lee	Skip: Kalle Kiiskinen Third: Teemu Salo Second: Leo Ouni Lead: Paavo Kuosmanen Alternate: Jermu Pöllänen	Skip: Takumi Maeda Third: Uryu Kamikawa Second: Hiroki Maeda Lead: Asei Nakahara Alternate: Hayato Sato	Skip: Wouter Gösgens Third: Jaap van Dorp Second: Laurens Hoekman Lead: Carlo Glasbergen Alternate: Alexander Magan
Russia	Spain	Turkey
Skip: Sergey Glukhov Third: Evgeny Klimov Second: Dmitry Mironov Lead: Anton Kalalb Alternate: Daniil Goriachev	Skip: Sergio Vez Third: Luis Gómez Second: Eduardo de Paz Lead: Nicholas Shaw Alternate: Mikel Unanue	Fourth: Uğurcan Karagöz Skip: Oğuzhan Karakurt Second: Muhammed Zeki Uçan Lead: Orhun Yüce Alternate: Muhammet Haydar Demirel

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Country	Skip	W	L	W–L	DSC
Russia	Sergey Glukhov	5	1	–	26.40
Netherlands	Wouter Gösgens	4	2	1–0	21.96
Finland	Kalle Kiiskinen	4	2	0–1	29.20
Turkey	Oğuzhan Karakurt	3	3	1–0	41.81
Japan	Takumi Maeda	3	3	0–1	45.68
Spain	Sergio Vez	2	4	–	75.52
Chinese Taipei	Lin Ting-li	0	6	–	53.45

Round Robin Summary Table

Pos.	Country								Record
7	Chinese Taipei	—	2–15	3–12	3–12	2–7	6–9	2–8	0–6
3	Finland	15–2	—	8–1	4–6	7–4	7–6	2–5	4–2
5	Japan	12–3	1–8	—	6–4	8–10	5–3	7–8	3–3
2	Netherlands	12–3	6–4	4–6	—	4–9	7–1	9–3	4–2
1	Russia	7–2	4–7	10–8	9–4	—	8–4	10–5	5–1
6	Spain	9–6	6–7	3–5	1–7	4–8	—	10–5	2–4
4	Turkey	8–2	5–2	8–7	3–9	5–10	5–10	—	3–3

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00).^[6]

Draw 1

Tuesday, January 18, 9:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Turkey (Karakurt)	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	3
Netherlands (Gösgens)	0	0	2	1	2	2	0	2	X	X	9

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chinese Taipei (Lin)	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	2
Finland (Kiiskinen)	7	0	3	2	0	2	1	X	X	X	15

Draw 2

Tuesday, January 18, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chinese Taipei (Lin)	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	3
Japan (Maeda)	4	0	2	1	3	0	2	X	X	X	12

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Spain (Vez)	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	X	4
Russia (Glukhov)	0	0	3	0	1	2	0	2	0	X	8

Draw 3

Tuesday, January 18, 19:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Kiiskinen)	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	7
Spain (Vez)	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Netherlands (Gösgens)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	4
Russia (Glukhov)	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	4	X	9

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Maeda)	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	7
Turkey (Karakurt)	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	8

Draw 4

Wednesday, January 19, 9:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Netherlands (Gösgens)	0	3	0	0	4	2	0	3	X	X	12
Chinese Taipei (Lin)	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	3

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Turkey (Karakurt)	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	5
Finland (Kiiskinen)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2

Draw 5

Wednesday, January 19, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Maeda)	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	5
Spain (Vez)	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3

Draw 6

Wednesday, January 19, 19:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Spain (Vez)	3	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	2	X	10
Turkey (Karakurt)	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	X	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Kiiskinen)	1	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	X	7
Russia (Glukhov)	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	4

Draw 7

Thursday, January 20, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russia (Glukhov)	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	0	4	10
Japan (Maeda)	1	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	8

Draw 8

Thursday, January 20, 15:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Turkey (Karakurt)	2	0	0	2	1	1	0	2	X	X	8
Chinese Taipei (Lin)	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	2

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Maeda)	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	X	1
Finland (Kiiskinen)	0	0	4	0	3	1	X	X	X	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Spain (Vez)	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	1
Netherlands (Gösgens)	1	0	5	1	0	0	X	X	X	X	7

Draw 9

Friday, January 21, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Kiiskinen)	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4
Netherlands (Gösgens)	0	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russia (Glukhov)	0	2	1	0	3	0	2	2	X	X	10
Turkey (Karakurt)	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	X	X	5

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chinese Taipei (Lin)	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	6
Spain (Vez)	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	3	0	1	9

Draw 10

Friday, January 21, 15:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russia (Glukhov)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	2	X	7
Chinese Taipei (Lin)	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	2

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Netherlands (Gösgens)	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	X	4
Japan (Maeda)	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	X	6

Playoffs

	Qualification Game 1					Qualification Game 2					Qualify for World Championship
	1	Russia	6								Russia
	2	Netherlands	3								Netherlands
						2	Netherlands	9
						3	Finland	4

Qualification Game 1

Saturday, January 22, 9:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russia (Glukhov)	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	X	6
Netherlands (Gösgens)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	3

Winner qualifies for 2022 World Men's Curling Championship.

Loser drops to Qualification Game 2.

Qualification Game 2

Saturday, January 22, 14:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Netherlands (Gösgens)	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	3	9
Finland (Kiiskinen)	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	4

Winner qualifies for 2022 World Men's Curling Championship.

Women

Qualification

Eight women's teams will qualify to participate in the 2022 World Qualification Event, through the following methods:^[1]

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	1	Finland
2021 Americas Challenge	1	Brazil
2021 European Curling Championships	4	Denmark  Czech Republic  Norway  Latvia
2021 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships	1	Kazakhstan  Hong Kong
TOTAL	7

Note: The Kazakh Women's Team qualified for this event, but they were unable to attend due to travel complications. Also, the Czech Women's team couldn't participate in the event due to positive COVID-19 cases on their team.

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[5]

Brazil	Czech Republic	Denmark	Finland
Skip: Isis Oliveira Third: Sarah Lipi Second: Kenya Franz Lead: Marcelia Melo	Skip: Alžběta Baudyšová Third: Petra Vinšová Second: Michaela Baudyšová Lead: Klára Svatoňová Alternate: Lenka Hronová	Skip: Madeleine Dupont Third: Mathilde Halse Second: Denise Dupont Lead: My Larsen	Skip: Miia Ahrenberg Third: Susanna Säntti Second: Minna Karvinen Lead: Jenni Bäckman Alternate: Tiina Suuripää
Hong Kong	Latvia	Norway
Skip: Ling-Yue Hung Third: Ada Shang Second: Ashura Wong Lead: On Na Anna Ngai	Skip: Evelīna Barone Third: Rēzija Ieviņa Second: Veronika Apse Lead: Ērika Patrīcija Bitmete Alternate: Letīcija Ieviņa	Skip: Marianne Rørvik Third: Mille Haslev Nordbye Second: Eirin Mesloe Lead: Martine Rønning

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Country	Skip	W	L	W–L	DSC
Norway	Marianne Rørvik	6	0	–	33.63
Denmark	Madeleine Dupont	5	1	–	27.72
Latvia	Evelīna Barone	4	2	–	58.80
Finland	Miia Ahrenberg	3	3	–	118.40
Hong Kong	Ling-Yue Hung	2	4	–	83.91
Brazil	Isis Oliveira	1	5	–	81.18
Czech Republic	Alžběta Baudyšová	0	6	–	–

Round Robin Summary Table

Pos.	Country								Record
6	Brazil	—	W–L	0–17	4–8	1–10	2–12	5–9	1–5
7	Czech Republic	L–W	—	L–W	L–W	L–W	L–W	L–W	0–6
2	Denmark	17–0	W–L	—	12–4	20–2	10–4	4–7	5–1
4	Finland	8–4	W–L	4–12	—	11–9	3–12	1–10	3–3
5	Hong Kong	10–1	W–L	2–20	9–11	—	4–12	4–12	2–4
3	Latvia	12–2	W–L	4–10	12–3	12–4	—	4–10	4–2
1	Norway	9–5	W–L	7–4	10–1	12–4	10–4	—	6–0

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00).^[6]

Draw 1

Tuesday, January 18, 9:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Hong Kong (Hung)	1	2	3	2	1	0	1	X	X	X	10
Brazil (Oliveira)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	1

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Ahrenberg)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	1
Norway (Rørvik)	1	0	0	5	1	1	2	X	X	X	10

Draw 2

Tuesday, January 18, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brazil (Oliveira)	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	X	0
Denmark (Dupont)	2	4	3	2	4	2	X	X	X	X	17

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Ahrenberg)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	W
Czech Republic (Baudyšová)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	L

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Hong Kong (Hung)	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	X	X	X	4
Latvia (Barone)	3	0	5	1	0	3	0	X	X	X	12

Draw 3

Tuesday, January 18, 19:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Rørvik)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	W
Czech Republic (Baudyšová)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	L

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Latvia (Barone)	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	X	X	4
Denmark (Dupont)	1	0	4	0	0	1	2	2	X	X	10

Draw 4

Wednesday, January 19, 9:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brazil (Oliveira)	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	X	4
Finland (Ahrenberg)	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	X	8

Draw 5

Wednesday, January 19, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Dupont)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	W
Czech Republic (Baudyšová)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	L

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Rørvik)	2	0	3	0	3	0	0	4	X	X	12
Hong Kong (Hung)	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	X	4

Draw 6

Wednesday, January 19, 19:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Latvia (Barone)	3	0	1	0	2	3	0	3	X	X	12
Finland (Ahrenberg)	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	X	3

Draw 7

Thursday, January 20, 9:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Brazil (Oliveira)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	X	2
Latvia (Barone)	2	0	2	0	2	3	3	X	X	X	12

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Dupont)	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	X	4
Norway (Rørvik)	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	X	7

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Baudyšová)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	L
Hong Kong (Hung)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	W

Draw 8

Thursday, January 20, 15:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Hong Kong (Hung)	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	9
Finland (Ahrenberg)	0	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	2	11

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Rørvik)	2	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	X	X	9
Brazil (Oliveira)	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	X	X	5

Draw 9

Friday, January 21, 9:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Baudyšová)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	L
Latvia (Barone)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	W

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Ahrenberg)	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	X	4
Denmark (Dupont)	0	3	0	1	2	0	3	1	2	X	12

Draw 10

Friday, January 21, 15:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Dupont)	7	0	5	0	2	4	2	X	X	X	20
Hong Kong (Hung)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	X	2

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Latvia (Barone)	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	4
Norway (Rørvik)	2	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	3	X	10

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Baudyšová)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	L
Brazil (Oliveira)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	W

Playoffs

	Qualification Game 1					Qualification Game 2					Qualify for World Championship
	1	Norway	6								Denmark
	2	Denmark	7								Norway
						1	Norway	8
						3	Latvia	6

Qualification Game 1

Saturday, January 22, 9:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Rørvik)	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	6
Denmark (Dupont)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	1	0	7

Winner qualifies for 2022 World Women's Curling Championship.

Loser drops to Qualification Game 2.

Qualification Game 2

Saturday, January 22, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Rørvik)	1	0	2	0	1	3	0	1	0	X	8
Latvia (Barone)	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	X	6

Winner qualifies for 2022 World Women's Curling Championship.