2021 Olympic Qualification Event – Curling

Curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Qualification event
Curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics ; Qualification event
Host city	Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Dates	December 5–18, 2021
Men's qualifiers	Norway; Italy; Denmark
Women's qualifiers	United Kingdom; Japan; South Korea
Mixed doubles qualifiers	Australia; United States
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The Olympic qualification event (branded as the 2021 Olympic Qualification Event presented by Asito for sponsorship reasons) is an international curling tournament that was held from 5–18 December 2021 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.

Host cityLeeuwarden, Netherlands

DatesDecember 5–18, 2021

Men's qualifiers

Norway

Italy

Denmark

Women's qualifiers

United Kingdom

Japan

South Korea

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The first international curling tournament to be hosted by the Netherlands,^[1] the event was the final qualifier for curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics, and was established as part of changes to the qualification process necessitated due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] The tournament was played between the men's, women's, and mixed doubles teams that qualified for the 2020 or 2021 World Curling Championships, but had yet to qualify for the Olympics, joined by additional teams who qualified through a pre-qualification tournament in November.^[2]

The top three National Olympic Committees (NOCs) in the men's and women's tournaments, and the top two NOCs in the mixed doubles tournament, advanced to the Olympic curling tournament. Denmark, Italy, and Norway qualified to the men's tournament. Great Britain, Japan, and South Korea qualified to the women's tournament, while Australia and the United States qualified in mixed doubles.

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Means of qualification	Vacancies	Qualified^[6]
Host Nation	0	~~Netherlands~~
2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship	11	United States Germany ROC New Zealand Australia Hungary Japan Finland South Korea Estonia Spain
2021 Pre-Olympic Qualification Event	3	Denmark Latvia Turkey
TOTAL	14

Member Associations	Rank	Points^[7]
United States	5	42.954
South Korea	8	34.678
ROC	9	30.670
Finland	11	26.524
Japan	12	20.754
Australia	14	19.335
Hungary	15	16.988
Estonia	16	14.109
Turkey	17	12.089
Germany	18	11.345
Spain	20	10.047
New Zealand	21	9.794
Latvia	22	8.977
Denmark	23	6.377

Australia	Denmark	Estonia	Finland
Female: Tahli Gill Male: Dean Hewitt	Female: Jasmin Lander Male: Henrik Holtermann	Female: Marie Kaldvee Male: Harri Lill	Female: Oona Kauste Male: Aku Kauste
Germany	Hungary	Japan	Latvia
Female: Pia-Lisa Schöll Male: Klaudius Harsch	Female: Dorottya Palancsa Male: Zsolt Kiss	Female: Chiaki Matsumura Male: Yasumasa Tanida	Female: Daina Barone Male: Arnis Veidemanis
New Zealand	ROC	South Korea	Spain
Female: Mhairi-Bronté Duncan Male: Brett Sargon	Female: Anna Sidorova Male: Alexey Timofeev	Female: Kim Min-ji Male: Lee Ki-jeong	Female: Oihane Unanue Male: Mikel Unanue
Turkey	United States
Female: Dilşat Yıldız Male: Uğurcan Karagöz	Female: Vicky Persinger Male: Chris Plys

Pos.	Country								Record
1	Australia	N/a	8–7	8–1	7–6	8–6	9–6	7–3	6–0
5	Denmark	7–8	—	7–8	3–8	11–5	9–3	8–7	3–3
4	Germany	1–8	8–7	—	2–8	6–8	9–5	7–0	3–3
3	Hungary	6–7	8–3	8–2	—	3–9	8–4	8–7	4–2
2	ROC	6–8	5–11	8–6	9–3	—	9–2	8–5	4–2
6	Spain	6–9	3–9	5–9	4–8	2–9	—	8–7	1–5
7	Turkey	3–7	7–8	0–7	7–8	5–8	7–8	—	0–6

Pos.	Country								Record
5	Estonia	—	4–10	8–2	8–9	10–3	8–10	6–11	2–4
3	Finland	10–4	—	9–8	8–3	8–5	4–10	5–7	4–2
6	Japan	2–8	8–9	—	8–2	9–5	4–7	6–8	2–4
4	Latvia	9–8	3–8	2–8	—	9–0	7–9	3–10	2–4
7	New Zealand	3–10	5–8	5–9	0–9	—	3–7	3–9	0–6
2	South Korea	10–8	10–4	7–4	9–7	7–3	—	3–9	5–1
1	United States	11–6	7–5	8–6	10–3	9–3	9–3	—	6–0

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
South Korea 🔨	2	0	0	1	1	0	3	X	7
New Zealand	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States 🔨	2	0	2	1	0	3	0	X	8
Japan	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	X	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Latvia	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	3
Finland 🔨	0	1	1	0	3	1	2	X	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
ROC 🔨	2	1	2	1	0	1	2	X	9
Spain	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	2

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Turkey 🔨	0	0	2	2	0	1	2	0	7
Denmark	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	3	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan	1	1	0	2	2	2	X	X	8
Latvia 🔨	0	0	2	0	0	0	X	X	2

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
South Korea	2	0	0	3	0	4	1	X	10
Finland 🔨	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	X	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Estonia 🔨	0	2	2	0	0	2	0	X	6
United States	4	0	0	3	2	0	2	X	11

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Australia 🔨	1	0	1	1	0	0	4	X	7
Turkey	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Australia	2	0	1	2	1	2	X	X	8
Germany 🔨	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	1

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Denmark 🔨	3	0	2	0	2	0	4	X	11
ROC	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Estonia	2	0	1	1	0	2	2	X	8
Japan 🔨	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	2

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Hungary 🔨	2	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	8
Turkey	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	2	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan 🔨	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	3	9
New Zealand	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Germany 🔨	2	1	1	1	1	1	X	X	7
Turkey	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Finland	0	2	4	0	0	3	1	X	10
Estonia 🔨	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Hungary 🔨	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	6
Australia	0	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Spain 🔨	0	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	6
Australia	1	1	3	0	0	2	0	2	9

Qualification semifinals			Qualification finals

			A1	Australia	6
B2	South Korea	7	B2	South Korea	5
A3	Hungary	5

			B1	United States	6
A2	ROC	10	A2	ROC	4
B3	Finland	5

Player percentages
South Korea		Hungary
Kim Min-ji	61%	Dorottya Palancsa	75%
Lee Ki-jeong	67%	Zsolt Kiss	73%
Total	65%	Total	74%

Qualification

World Ranking

Teams

Round robin standings

Round robin results

Draw 1

Draw 2

Draw 3

Draw 4

Draw 5

Draw 6

Draw 7

Draw 8

Draw 9

Draw 10

Draw 11

Draw 12

Draw 13

Draw 14

Playoffs

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Qualification Game 1

Qualification Game 2

Qualification

World Ranking

Teams

Round robin standings

Round robin results

Draw 1

Draw 2

Draw 3

Draw 4

Draw 5

Draw 6

Draw 7

Draw 8

Draw 9

Playoffs

Qualification Game 1

Qualification Game 2

Qualification

World Ranking

Teams

Round robin standings

Round robin results

Draw 1

Draw 2

Draw 3

Draw 4

Draw 5

Draw 6

Draw 7

Draw 8

Draw 9

Playoffs

Qualification Game 1

Qualification Game 2

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Player percentages
ROC		Finland
Anna Sidorova	77%	Oona Kauste	82%
Alexey Timofeev	79%	Aku Kauste	81%
Total	78%	Total	81%

Player percentages
Australia		South Korea
Tahli Gill	69%	Kim Min-ji	78%
Dean Hewitt	71%	Lee Ki-jeong	65%
Total	70%	Total	70%

Player percentages
United States		ROC
Vicky Persinger	82%	Anna Sidorova	69%
Chris Plys	80%	Alexey Timofeev	83%
Total	81%	Total	77%

Means of qualification	Vacancies	Qualified^[6]
Host Nation	1	Netherlands
2021 World Men's Curling Championship	6	Italy Norway Japan Germany Denmark South Korea
2021 Pre-Olympic Qualification Event	2	Czech Republic Finland
TOTAL	9

Member Associations	Rank	Points^[9]
Japan	6	39.715
Norway	7	39.161
Italy	8	37.658
South Korea	9	33.070
Germany	11	20.622
Denmark	12	20.190
Netherlands	13	18.302
Czech Republic	16	9.916
Finland	24	7.046

Czech Republic	Denmark	Finland
Skip: Lukáš Klíma Third: Marek Černovský Second: Radek Boháč Lead: Jiří Candra Alternate: Samuel Mokriš	Skip: Mikkel Krause Third: Mads Nørgård Second: Henrik Holtermann Lead: Kasper Wiksten Alternate: Tobias Thune	Skip: Kalle Kiiskinen Third: Teemu Salo Second: Leo Ouni Lead: Paavo Kuosmanen Alternate: Jermu Pöllänen
Germany	Italy	Japan
Skip: Sixten Totzek Third: Marc Muskatewitz Second: Joshua Sutor Lead: Dominik Greindl Alternate: Magnus Sutor	Skip: Joël Retornaz Third: Amos Mosaner Second: Sebastiano Arman Lead: Simone Gonin Alternate: Mattia Giovanella	Skip: Yuta Matsumura Third: Tetsuro Shimizu Second: Yasumasa Tanida Lead: Shinya Abe Alternate: Kosuke Aita
Netherlands	Norway	South Korea
Skip: Wouter Gösgens Third: Jaap van Dorp Second: Laurens Hoekman Lead: Carlo Glasbergen Alternate: Tobias van den Hurk	Skip: Steffen Walstad Third: Torger Nergård Second: Markus Høiberg Lead: Magnus Vågberg Alternate: Magnus Nedregotten	Skip: Kim Chang-min Third: Kim Soo-hyuk Second: Jeon Jae-ik Lead: Kim Hak-kyun

Key
	Qualified for the 2022 Olympics via Round Robin
	Teams to Playoffs

Country	Skip	W	L	W–L	DSC
Norway	Steffen Walstad	8	0	–	36.81
Italy	Joël Retornaz	7	1	–	25.08
Czech Republic	Lukáš Klíma	5	3	–	39.51
Denmark	Mikkel Krause	4	4	–	68.73
Finland	Kalle Kiiskinen	3	5	2–0	32.35
Japan	Yuta Matsumura	3	5	1–1	34.83
Netherlands	Wouter Gösgens	3	5	0–2	25.52
South Korea	Kim Chang-min	2	6	–	30.56
Germany	Sixten Totzek	1	7	–	30.33

Pos.	Country										Record
1	Norway	—	5–4	8–5	7–4	7–4	6–4	8–5	10–6	7–4	8–0
2	Italy	4–5	—	7–2	6–5	9–5	9–4	7–6	7–3	11–4	7–1
3	Czech Republic	5–8	2–7	—	7–5	8–3	11–6	4–7	14–6	7–4	5–3
4	Denmark	4–7	5–6	5–7	—	9–2	11–3	5–4	7–8	8–2	4–4
5	Finland	4–7	5–9	3–8	2–9	—	8–2	7–5	5–3	6–8	3–5
6	Japan	4–6	4–9	6–11	3–11	2–8	—	11–5	6–5	6–5	3–5
7	Netherlands	5–8	6–7	7–4	4–5	5–7	5–11	—	8–3	6–5	3–5
8	South Korea	6–10	3–7	6–14	8–7	3–5	5–6	3–8	—	10–1	2–6
9	Germany	4–7	4–11	4–7	2–8	8–6	5–6	5–6	1–10	—	1–7

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