2025 World Junior Curling Championships

2025 World Junior Curling Championships
2025 World Junior Curling Championships
Host city	Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
Arena	Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium
Dates	April 12–21
Men's winner	Italy
Curling club	Curling Pinerolo, Pinerolo
Skip	Stefano Spiller
Third	Stefano Gilli
Second	Andrea Gilli
Lead	Francesco Vigliani
Alternate	Cesare Spiller
Coach	Wolfgang Burba
Finalist	Norway (Høstmælingen)
Women's winner	South Korea
Curling club	Jeonbuk CC, Jeonbuk
Skip	Kang Bo-bae
Third	Kim Ji-soo
Second	Shim Yu-jeong
Lead	Kim Min-seo
Alternate	Lee Bo-young
Coach	Kwon Young-il
Finalist	Germany (Messenzehl)
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The 2025 World Junior Curling Championships were held from April 12 to 21 at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The championship also acted as the test event for curling at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.^[1]

Host cityCortina d’Ampezzo, Italy

ArenaCortina Curling Olympic Stadium

DatesApril 12–21

Men's winner Italy

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Junior	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Italy Stefano Spiller Stefano Gilli Andrea Gilli Francesco Vigliani Cesare Spiller	Norway Lukas Høstmælingen Tinius Haslev Nordbye Magnus Lillebø Eskil Eriksen Harald Dæhlin	Scotland Orrin Carson Logan Carson Archie Hyslop Charlie Gibb Jake MacDonald
Women	South Korea Kang Bo-bae Kim Ji-soo Shim Yu-jeong Kim Min-seo Lee Bo-young	Germany Kim Sutor (Fourth) Sara Messenzehl (Skip) Joy Sutor Annelie Abdel-Halim Emma Waltenberger	Canada Allyson MacNutt Maria Fitzgerald Alison Umlah Grace McCusker Cailey Locke

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	1	Italy
2024 World Junior Curling Championships	6	Norway Denmark United States Germany Scotland Canada
2024 World Junior-B Curling Championships	3	South Korea Switzerland Japan
TOTAL	10

Canada	Denmark	Germany	Italy	Japan
The Glencoe Club, Calgary Skip: Kenan Wipf Third: Ky Macaulay Second: Michael Keenan Lead: Max Cinnamon Alternate: Adam Naugler	Hvidovre CC, Hvidovre Skip: Jacob Schmidt Third: Alexander Qvist Second: Kasper Jurlander Bøge Lead: Liam Goldbeck Alternate: Nikki Jensen	CC Füssen, Füssen Skip: Lukas Jäger Third: Leonhard Angrick Second: Adrian Enders Lead: Raphael Amberger Alternate: David Fuss	Curling Pinerolo, Pinerolo Skip: Stefano Spiller Third: Stefano Gilli Second: Andrea Gilli Lead: Francesco Vigliani Alternate: Cesare Spiller	Tokoro CC, Kitami Skip: Toa Nakahara Third: Hinata Michitani Second: Riku Takemura Lead: Yuta Kimura Alternate: Shunta Kobayashi
Norway	Scotland	South Korea	Switzerland	United States
Lillehammer CK, Lillehammer Skip: Lukas Høstmælingen Third: Tinius Haslev Nordbye Second: Magnus Lillebø Lead: Eskil Eriksen Alternate: Harald Dæhlin	Dumfries CC, Dumfries Skip: Orrin Carson Third: Logan Carson Second: Archie Hyslop Lead: Charlie Gibb Alternate: Jake MacDonald	Uiseong CC, Uiseong Skip: Kim Dae-hyun Third: Lee Woo-jung Second: Park Seong-min Lead: Kwon Jun-i Alternate: Shin Eun-jun	CC Wildhaus, Wildhaus Skip: Felix Lüthold Third: Leon Wittich Second: Livio Ernst Lead: Jonas Feierabend Alternate: Timon Biehle	Chaska CC, Chaska Skip: Wesley Wendling Third: Daniel Laufer Second: Nicholas Cenzalli Lead: Shaheen Bassiri Alternate: Dylan Ciapka

Country	Skip	W	L	W–L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	DSC
Italy	Stefano Spiller	8	1	–	73	37	43	30	9	14	81.2%	31.54
Norway	Lukas Høstmælingen	7	2	–	72	43	42	25	2	23	80.3%	23.36
Scotland	Orrin Carson	6	3	–	67	57	42	36	4	12	76.9%	31.33
South Korea	Kim Dae-hyun	5	4	–	59	58	36	35	1	12	72.5%	50.44
Denmark	Jacob Schmidt	4	5	2–0	65	58	33	38	5	4	75.8%	29.33
Japan	Toa Nakahara	4	5	1–1	43	69	28	34	5	9	72.8%	33.29
Canada	Kenan Wipf	4	5	0–2	52	67	32	37	4	8	74.1%	33.10
Switzerland	Felix Lüthold	3	6	1–0	48	60	31	38	9	8	73.4%	34.02
United States	Wesley Wendling	3	6	0–1	60	63	38	39	2	11	76.0%	36.54
Germany	Lukas Jäger	1	8	–	38	65	26	39	7	6	70.3%	45.56

Pos.	Country											Record
7	Canada	—	4–10	1–7	3–9	7–8	6–9	9–7	6–5	9–7	7–5	4–5
5	Denmark	10–4	—	10–4	5–10	9–3	2–8	7–8	9–10	10–6	3–5	4–5
10	Germany	7–1	4–10	—	3–5	5–7	1–9	3–5	4–8	4–11	7–9	1–8
1	Italy	9–3	10–5	5–3	—	10–3	11–7	9–4	5–6	6–3	8–3	8–1
6	Japan	8–7	3–9	7–5	3–10	—	1–12	4–9	3–10	6–1	8–6	4–5
2	Norway	9–6	8–2	9–1	7–11	12–1	—	1–8	8–2	6–4	12–8	7–2
3	Scotland	7–9	8–7	5–3	4–9	9–4	8–1	—	9–7	6–7	11–10	6–3
4	South Korea	5–6	10–9	8–4	6–5	10–3	2–8	7–9	—	9–4	2–10	5–4
8	Switzerland	7–9	6–10	11–4	3–6	1–6	4–6	7–6	4–9	—	5–4	3–6
9	United States	5–7	5–3	9–7	3–8	6–8	8–12	10–11	10–2	4–5	—	3–6

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Spiller) 🔨	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	5
Germany (Jäger)	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	3	1	0	1	2	1	X	X	9
Switzerland (Lüthold) 🔨	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	X	X	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Høstmælingen)	3	3	0	5	1	0	X	X	X	X	12
Japan (Nakahara) 🔨	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	X	X	1

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Schmidt) 🔨	2	1	0	3	0	4	X	X	X	X	10
Canada (Wipf)	0	0	3	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	4

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	5
Canada (Wipf) 🔨	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Høstmælingen) 🔨	0	2	1	0	2	3	1	X	X	X	9
Germany (Jäger)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	X	1

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Schmidt)	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	3	10
Switzerland (Lüthold) 🔨	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scotland (Carson) 🔨	2	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	3	1	11
United States (Wendling)	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	10

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Nakahara)	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	2	X	X	6
Switzerland (Lüthold) 🔨	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	1

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Scotland (Carson)	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	9
South Korea (Kim) 🔨	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	7

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams relegated to 2025 B Championship

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Spiller)	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	3	10
Denmark (Schmidt) 🔨	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	5

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Wendling)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	5
Denmark (Schmidt) 🔨	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (Lüthold)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	3
Italy (Spiller) 🔨	0	1	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	X	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Jäger) 🔨	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	X	5
Japan (Nakahara)	0	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	X	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Jäger) 🔨	0	0	0	0	3	2	2	X	X	X	7
Canada (Wipf)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	X	1

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Wendling)	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	4
Switzerland (Lüthold) 🔨	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	5

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scotland (Carson)	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	4
Italy (Spiller) 🔨	2	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	3	9

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Nakahara) 🔨	0	2	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	X	8
United States (Wendling)	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	6

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Jäger)	0	0	1	0	2	1	2	0	1	0	7
United States (Wendling) 🔨	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	9

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Nakahara)	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	X	X	4
Scotland (Carson) 🔨	2	0	3	0	0	1	2	1	X	X	9

Qualification

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

Playoffs

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Player percentages

Final standings

Qualification

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

Playoffs

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Player percentages

Final standings

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Timelines

Top Qs

Fact Checks

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

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Høstmælingen) 🔨	1	1	0	1	2	2	1	X	X	X	8
Denmark (Schmidt)	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	2

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scotland (Carson) 🔨	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	X	6
Switzerland (Lüthold)	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	7

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

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Høstmælingen)	0	3	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	5	12
United States (Wendling) 🔨	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	1	0	8

Semifinals			Gold medal game

1	Italy	9

4	South Korea	2
			1	Italy	9

			2	Norway	5
2	Norway	7

3	Scotland	6	Bronze medal game


			4	South Korea	2

			3	Scotland	7

Player percentages
Norway		Scotland
Eskil Eriksen	83%	Charlie Gibb	69%
Magnus Lillebø	79%	Archie Hyslop	88%
Tinius Haslev Nordbye	80%	Logan Carson	70%
Lukas Høstmælingen	79%	Orrin Carson	74%
Total	79%	Total	76%

Player percentages
South Korea		Scotland
Shin Eun-jun	59%	Charlie Gibb	75%
Park Seong-min	73%	Archie Hyslop	81%
Lee Woo-jung	80%	Logan Carson	83%
Kim Dae-hyun	56%	Orrin Carson	86%
Total	67%	Total	81%

Key
	Teams relegated to 2025 World Junior-B Curling Championships

Canada	China	Germany	Italy	Japan
Halifax CC, Halifax Skip: Allyson MacNutt Third: Maria Fitzgerald Second: Alison Umlah Lead: Grace McCusker Alternate: Cailey Locke	CSO Curling Club, Beijing Skip: Li Ziru Third: Gao Ya Second: Tian Dingning Lead: Wang Jiayi Alternate: Chen Zaoxue	CC Füssen, Füssen Fourth: Kim Sutor Skip: Sara Messenzehl Second: Joy Sutor Lead: Annelie Abdel-Halim Alternate: Emma Waltenberger	Trentino CC, Trentino Skip: Rebecca Mariani Third: Lucrezia Grande Second: Letizia Gaia Carlisano Lead: Rachele Scalesse Alternate: Giada Zambelli	Sapporo CC, Sapporo Skip: Yuina Miura Third: Kohane Tsuruga Second: Ai Matsunaga Lead: Hana Ikeda Alternate: Yuna Sakuma
Latvia	Norway	South Korea	Sweden	Switzerland
Jelgavas KK, Jelgava Skip: Evelīna Barone Third: Rēzija Ieviņa Second: Veronika Apse Lead: Marija Seliverstova Alternate: Letīcija Ieviņa	Oppdal CK, Oppdal Skip: Torild Bjørnstad Third: Nora Østgård Second: Eilin Kjærland Lead: Andrine Vollan Rønning	Jeonbuk CC, Jeonbuk Skip: Kang Bo-bae Third: Kim Ji-soo Second: Shim Yu-jeong Lead: Kim Min-seo Alternate: Lee Bo-young	Sundbybergs CK, Sundbyberg Skip: Moa Dryburgh Third: Thea Orefjord Second: Moa Tjærnlund Lead: Maja Roxin Alternate: Erika Ryberg	Curling Bern, Bern Skip: Ariane Oberson Third: Laurane Flückiger Second: Lia Germann Lead: Enya Caccivio Alternate: Isabel Einspieler