Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification event

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The qualification event for the curling tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held from December 10 to 15, 2013 at the BLZ Arena in Füssen, Germany.^[1] The top two teams from the qualification event qualified their nations to participate in the Olympics. The qualification event was open to any nations that earned qualification points at the 2012 or 2013 World Curling Championships or participated at the 2011 World Curling Championships (the South Korea men's team and the Norway women's team).^[2]

Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics Qualification event
Host city	Füssen, Germany
Arena	BLZ Arena
Dates	December 10–15, 2013
Men's winner	Germany
Curling club	CC Hamburg, Hamburg
Skip	John Jahr
Fourth	Felix Schulze
Second	Peter Rickmers
Lead	Sven Goldemann
Finalist	United States (John Shuster)
Women's winner	China
Curling club	Harbin CC, Harbin
Skip	Wang Bingyu
Third	Liu Yin
Second	Yue Qingshuang
Lead	Zhou Yan
Finalist	Japan (Ayumi Ogasawara)

Competition format

In both the men's and the women's tournaments, the teams played a single round robin, and at its conclusion, the top three teams advanced to the playoffs. In the playoffs, the first and second seeds played a game to determine the first team to advance to the main Olympic tournament. The loser of this game, along with the third seed, played a game to determine the second team to advance to the main Olympic tournament.^[3]

Men

Teams

Czech Republic	Finland	France	Germany
Skip: Jiří Snítil Third: Martin Snítil Second: Jindřich Kitzberger Lead: Marek Vydra Alternate: Jakub Bareš	Skip: Aku Kauste Third: Jani Sullanmaa Second: Pauli Jäämies Lead: Janne Pitko Alternate: Leo Mäkelä	Fourth: Tony Angiboust Skip: Thomas Dufour Second: Wilfrid Coulot Lead: Jérémy Frarier Alternate: Romain Borini	Fourth: Felix Schulze Skip: John Jahr Second: Christopher Bartsch Lead: Sven Goldemann Alternate: Peter Rickmers
Japan	New Zealand[4]	South Korea	United States
Skip: Yusuke Morozumi Third: Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Second: Tetsuro Shimizu Lead: Kosuke Morozumi Alternate: Shinya Abe	Skip: Peter de Boer Third: Sean Becker Second: Scott Becker Lead: Kenny Thomson Alternate: Phil Dowling	Skip: Kim Soo-hyuk Third: Kim Tae-hwan Second: Park Jong-duk Lead: Nam Yoon-ho Alternate: Lee Ye-jun	Skip: John Shuster Third: Jeff Isaacson Second: Jared Zezel Lead: John Landsteiner Alternate: Craig Brown

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Country	Skip	W	L
Germany	John Jahr	5	2
Czech Republic	Jiří Snítil	5	2
United States	John Shuster	5	2
South Korea	Kim Soo-hyuk	5	2
New Zealand	Peter de Boer	3	4
France	Thomas Dufour	2	5
Finland	Aku Kauste	2	5
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	1	6

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Central European Time (UTC+1).^[3]

Draw 1

Tuesday, December 10, 16:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	2	X	X	9
Japan (Morozumi)	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	6
Finland (Kauste)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Shuster)	2	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	7
Czech Republic (Snítil)	0	1	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	9

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Jahr)	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	X	X	3
France (Dufour)	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	X	X	8

Draw 2

Wednesday, December 11, 8:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	6
United States (Shuster)	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	1	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Jahr)	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	7
South Korea (Kim)	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	0	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
France (Dufour)	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	4
Japan (Morozumi)	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	2	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Kauste)	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4
Czech Republic (Snítil)	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	6

Draw 3

Wednesday, December 11, 16:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Kauste)	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	X	1
South Korea (Kim)	2	1	3	0	1	2	X	X	X	X	9

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Shuster)	0	1	2	1	2	0	0	2	2	X	10
France (Dufour)	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	X	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Snítil)	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	6
Germany (Jahr)	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	1	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	X	X	8
Japan (Morozumi)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	3

Draw 4

Thursday, December 12, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Snítil)	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	5
France (Dufour)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Kauste)	2	0	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	10
Japan (Morozumi)	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	X	6
South Korea (Kim)	2	1	0	2	0	0	3	0	2	X	10

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Shuster)	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	0	7
Germany (Jahr)	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	8

Draw 5

Thursday, December 12, 19:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Jahr)	0	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	6
New Zealand (de Boer)	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	X	4
Czech Republic (Snítil)	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	3	2	X	10

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	2
United States (Shuster)	0	2	1	0	2	0	1	2	X	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
France (Dufour)	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	5
Finland (Kauste)	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	6

Draw 6

Friday, December 13, 12:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	5
Czech Republic (Snítil)	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
France (Dufour)	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	X	4
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	3	X	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Jahr)	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	8
Finland (Kauste)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	X	6
United States (Shuster)	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	2	2	X	9

Draw 7

Friday, December 13, 20:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Shuster)	3	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	3	X	10
Finland (Kauste)	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	7
Germany (Jahr)	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	1	1	0	2	0	1	X	X	7
France (Dufour)	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Snítil)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	7
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	6

Tiebreaker

Saturday, December 14, 16:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Shuster)	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	7
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	5

Player percentages
United States		South Korea
John Landsteiner	84%	Nam Yoon-ho	84%
Jared Zezel	82%	Park Jong-duk	81%
Jeff Isaacson	78%	Kim Tae-hwan	74%
John Shuster	76%	Kim Soo-hyuk	81%
Total	80%	Total	80%

Playoffs

	Second qualifier					First qualifier
						1	Germany	7
	2	Czech Republic	5			2	Czech Republic	4
	3	United States	8

First qualifier

Saturday, December 14, 20:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Germany (Jahr)	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	7
Czech Republic (Snítil)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	4

Player percentages
Germany		Czech Republic
Sven Goldemann	78%	Marek Vydra	77%
Christopher Bartsch	80%	Jindřich Kitzberger	83%
John Jahr	80%	Martin Snítil	75%
Felix Schulze	83%	Jiří Snítil	81%
Total	80%	Total	79%

Second qualifier

Sunday, December 15, 12:30

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Snítil)	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	5
United States (Shuster)	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	1	8

Player percentages
Czech Republic		United States
Marek Vydra	77%	John Landsteiner	84%
Jindřich Kitzberger	81%	Jared Zezel	81%
Martin Snítil	74%	Jeff Isaacson	79%
Jiří Snítil	80%	John Shuster	75%
Total	78%	Total	80%

Women

Teams

China	Czech Republic	Germany	Japan
Skip: Wang Bingyu Third: Liu Yin Second: Yue Qingshuang Lead: Zhou Yan Alternate: Jiang Yilun	Skip: Anna Kubešková Third: Tereza Plíšková Second: Klára Svatoňová Lead: Veronika Herdová Alternate: Martina Strnadová	Skip: Andrea Schöpp Third: Imogen Oona Lehmann Second: Corinna Scholz Lead: Stella Heiß Alternate: Nicole Muskatewitz	Skip: Ayumi Ogasawara Third: Yumie Funayama Second: Kaho Onodera Lead: Michiko Tomabechi Alternate: Chinami Yoshida
Italy	Latvia	Norway
Skip: Veronica Zappone Third: Sara Levetti Second: Elisa Patono Lead: Arianna Losano Alternate: Martina Bronsino	Skip: Iveta Staša-Šaršūne Third: Ieva Krusta Second: Zanda Bikše Lead: Dace Munča Alternate: Una Ģērmane	Skip: Marianne Rørvik Third: Anneline Skårsmoen Second: Camilla Holth Lead: Julie Kjær Molnar Alternate: Pia Trulsen

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Country	Skip	W	L
China	Wang Bingyu	6	0
Japan	Ayumi Ogasawara	5	1
Norway	Marianne Rørvik	3	3
Germany	Andrea Schöpp	3	3
Czech Republic	Anna Kubešková	2	4
Latvia	Iveta Staša-Šaršūne	2	4
Italy	Veronica Zappone	0	6

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Central European Time (UTC+1).^[3]

Draw 1

Tuesday, December 10, 20:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Zappone)	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	7
Latvia (Staša-Šaršūne)	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Rørvik)	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	0	6
Czech Republic (Kubešková)	2	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Schöpp)	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	6
China (Wang)	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	7

Draw 2

Wednesday, December 11, 12:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Schöpp)	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	4	1	X	9
Czech Republic (Kubešková)	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Ogasawara)	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	7
Italy (Zappone)	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Latvia (Staša-Šaršūne)	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	X	4
Norway (Rørvik)	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	2	0	X	7

Draw 3

Wednesday, December 11, 20:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Ogasawara)	0	0	4	0	0	2	1	0	2	X	9
Norway (Rørvik)	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Latvia (Staša-Šaršūne)	2	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	7
Germany (Schöpp)	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	1	0	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	2	10
Czech Republic (Kubešková)	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	6

Draw 4

Thursday, December 12, 14:00

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

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Ogasawara)	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	9
Latvia (Staša-Šaršūne)	0	1	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Kubešková)	2	0	1	0	5	0	1	0	X	X	9
Italy (Zappone)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	X	X	3

Draw 5

Friday, December 13, 8:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Schöpp)	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	4
Japan (Ogasawara)	1	1	0	1	3	0	2	0	2	X	10

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

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Latvia (Staša-Šaršūne)	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	5
China (Wang)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	3	0	1	8

Draw 6

Friday, December 13, 16:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Zappone)	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	X	5
China (Wang)	1	0	2	0	2	2	0	2	0	X	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Kubešková)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	X	4
Japan (Ogasawara)	0	0	0	4	0	2	0	1	0	X	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Rørvik)	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	7
Germany (Schöpp)	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	4

Draw 7

Saturday, December 14, 8:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	0	5	2	0	3	0	X	X	X	X	10
Japan (Ogasawara)	1	0	0	1	0	2	X	X	X	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Kubešková)	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	2
Latvia (Staša-Šaršūne)	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	X	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Zappone)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	2
Germany (Schöpp)	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	1	X	X	7

Tiebreaker

Saturday, December 14, 16:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Rørvik)	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	5
Germany (Schöpp)	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4

Player percentages
Norway		Germany
Julie Kjær Molnar	80%	Corinna Scholz	78%
Camilla Holth	68%	Nicole Muskatewitz	72%
Anneline Skårsmoen	73%	Imogen Oona Lehmann	82%
Marianne Rørvik	74%	Andrea Schöpp	73%
Total	74%	Total	76%

Playoffs

	Second qualifier					First qualifier
						1	China	7
	2	Japan	10			2	Japan	6
	3	Norway	4

First qualifier

Sunday, December 15, 8:30

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	1	0	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	7
Japan (Ogasawara)	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	6

Player percentages
China		Japan
Zhou Yan	80%	Michiko Tomabechi	81%
Yue Qingshuang	81%	Kaho Onodera	80%
Liu Yin	82%	Yumie Funayama	74%
Wang Bingyu	80%	Ayumi Ogasawara	74%
Total	81%	Total	77%

Second qualifier

Sunday, December 15, 16:30

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

Player percentages
Japan		Norway
Michiko Tomabechi	81%	Julie Kjær Molnar	80%
Kaho Onodera	80%	Camilla Holth	68%
Yumie Funayama	74%	Anneline Skårsmoen	70%
Ayumi Ogasawara	74%	Marianne Rørvik	73%
Total	77%	Total	73%