2012 World Senior Curling Championships
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| 2012 World Senior Curling Championships | |
|---|---|
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| Host city | Tårnby, Denmark[1] |
| Arena | Tårnby Curling Club |
| Dates | April 14–21 |
| Men's winner |  Ireland |
| Skip | John Jo Kenny |
| Third | Bill Gray |
| Second | David Whyte |
| Lead | Tony Tierney |
| Alternate | David Hume |
| Finalist |  Canada (Kelly Robertson) |
| Women's winner | Canada |
| Curling club | Thistle Saint Andrews CC Saint John, New Brunswick |
| Skip | Heidi Hanlon |
| Third | Kathy Floyd |
| Second | Judy Blanchard |
| Lead | Jane Arseneau |
| Finalist |  Scotland (Barbara Watt) |
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| Events at the 2012 World Senior Curling Championships | ||
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| Tournament | ||
| men | women | |
The 2012 World Senior Curling Championships were held at the Tårnby Curling Club in Tårnby, Denmark from April 14 to 21.[1] Tårnby has previously hosted the 2006 World Senior Curling Championships, the 2011 European Mixed Curling Championship, and the 2011 European Curling Championships' Group C competitions, and hosted the 2012 European Junior Curling Challenge.[1] For the first time since 2009, the event was not held in conjunction with the same year's World Mixed Doubles Championship.[2]
Round-robin standings
Final round-robin standings
| Key | |
|---|---|
| Teams to Playoffs | |
| Teams to Draw Shot Challenge (team with best moves to playoffs, other two play in qualification game) | |
| Teams to Tiebreaker (winner moves on to Draw Shot Challenge) | |
Playoffs
| Qualification Game | ||||
| R3 |  Switzerland
| 5 | ||
| W3 | Scotland
| 6 | ||
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Gold-medal game | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Canada
| 5 | ||||||||||||
| W3 | Scotland
| 2 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Canada
| 9 | ||||||||||||
| B2 |  Sweden
| 5 | ||||||||||||
| W2 |  New Zealand
| 4 | ||||||||||||
| B2 | Sweden
| 5 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Canada
| 5 | ||||||||||||
| R1 | Ireland
| 6 | ||||||||||||
| B1 |  Norway
| 6 | ||||||||||||
| B3 |  Australia
| 3 | ||||||||||||
| B1 | Norway
| 4 | ||||||||||||
| R1 | Ireland
| 5 | ||||||||||||
| R1 | Ireland
| 8 | ||||||||||||
| R2 |  Finland
| 4 | ||||||||||||
| Bronze-medal game | ||||
| B1 | Norway
| 4 | ||
| B2 | Sweden
| 8 | ||
Bronze-medal game
Saturday, April 21, 14:00
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Norway (Ramsfjell) |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 4 |
Sweden (Östlund)  |
0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | X | 8 |
Gold-medal game
Saturday, April 21, 14:00
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Final |
| Canada (Robertson) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Ireland (Kenny) |
0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 2012 World Senior Men's Curling Championship Winner |
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 Ireland 1st title |
