2009 World Wheelchair Curling Championship – Qualification Event
Encyclopedia
The qualification event for the 2009 World Wheelchair Curling Championship
2009 World Wheelchair Curling Championship
The 2009 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held from February 21–28 at the Vancouver Paralympic Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...

took place from November 15-20 in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. The event's two top finishers (Germany and China) both qualify to participate in the 2009 World Wheelchair Curling Championship.

The two qualification spots are determined as follows: After the conclusion of the round robin, the top four teams advance to the playoffs. The playoffs follow the first and second rounds of the page playoff system
Page playoff system
The Page playoff system is a playoff format used primarily in softball and curling at the championship level. Teams are seeded using a round-robin tournament and the top four play a mix of a single-elimination and double-elimination tournament to determine the winner...

. In the first round, he first seed playing the second and the third seed playing the fourth. In the final round, the loser of 1 v. 2 plays the winner of 3 vs. 4 in the Second Place Game, like in the semifinal of the page playoff system. However, unlike the page playoff system, the winner of 1 vs. 2 and the loser of 3 vs. 4 do not play. The winner of 1 vs. 2 qualifies to the worlds, while the winner of the second place game also qualifies to the worlds.

Teams

Skip: Wang Haitao

Third: Liu Wei

Second: Xu Guangqin

Lead: He Jun

Alternate: Liu Chunyu

Coach: Li Hongchen
Li Hongchen
Li Hongchen is an internationally elite curler who trains out of Harbin, China.Most of Li's experience at the World level has been as a coach, mainly working with the women and junior teams from 2003 to 2009....

Skip: Radek Musílek

Third: Radek Pokorný

Second: Martin Tluk

Lead: Michaela Charvátová

Alternate: Petr Gottlieb

Coach: Vit Nekovarik
Skip: Kenneth Ørbæk

Third: Jørn Kristensen

Second: Rosita Jensen

Lead: Lars Enemark

Alternate: Robert Fezerskov Hansen

Coach: Per Christensen
Skip: Vesa Hellman

Third: Tuomo Aarnikka

Second: Jari Manni

Lead: Riitta Särösalo

Alternate: Seppo Pihnala

Coach: Lauri Ikävalko
Skip: Jens Jäger

Third: Marcus Sieger
Marcus Sieger
Marcus Sieger is a German wheelchair curler.He competed with the German wheelchair curling team at the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver, Canada.-External links:*...



Second: Jens Gäbel

Lead: Caren Totzauer

Alternate: Astrid Hoer
Skip: Yoji Nakajima

Third: Katsuo Ichikawa

Second: Takashi Hidai

Lead: Ayako Saitoh

Coaches: Emi Kaneko, Satako Ogawa
Skip: Boguslaw Sondej

Third: Andrzej Ferfecki

Second: Stefan Chmielorz

Lead: Barbara Mazurkiewicz

Alternate: Czeslaw Lawrynowicz

Coaches: Kazimierz Chec, Arkadiusz Detyniecki
Skip: Marat Romanov

Third: Andrey Smirnov

Second: Nikolay Melnikov

Lead: Oxana Slesarenko

Alternate: Mikhail Mokretsov

Coach: Alexandra Ryzkova
Skip: Radoslav Duris

Third: Dusan Pitonak

Second: Branislav Jakubec

Lead: Alena Kánová

Alternate: Imrich Lyocsa

Coach: Pavol Pitonak
Skip: Mike Preston

Third: William Bell

Second: Allan Young

Lead: Marion Harrison

Alternate: Valerie Prydderch

Coach: John Stone

Round Robin Standings

Country Skip W L
Jens Jäger  8 1
Marat Romanov  7 2
Radek Musílek  7 2
Wang Haitao  7 2
Kenneth Ørbæk  5 4
Yoji Nakajima  4 5
Vesa Hellman  3 6
Boguslaw Sondej  2 7
Mike Preston  2 7
Radoslav Duris  0 9

Draw 1

Saturday, November 15, 9:00

Draw 2

Saturday, November 15, 13:30

Draw 3

Sunday, November 16, 9:00

Draw 4

Sunday, November 16, 13:30

Draw 5

Sunday, November 16, 18:00

Draw 6

Monday, November 17, 9:00

Draw 7

Monday, November 17, 13:30

Draw 8

Monday, November 17, 18:00

Draw 9

Tuesday, November 18, 9:00

Draw 10

Tuesday, November 18, 13:30

Draw 11

Tuesday, November 18, 18:00

Draw 12

Wednesday, November 19, 9:00

Draw 13

Wednesday, November 19, 13:30

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

Thursday, November 20, 11:30

is qualified to participate in the worlds
2009 World Wheelchair Curling Championship
The 2009 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held from February 21–28 at the Vancouver Paralympic Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...



moves to Second Place Game

3 vs. 4

Thursday, November 20, 11:30

advances to Second Place Game

Second Place Game

Thursday, November 20, 15:30
Loser of 1 vs. 2 plays against Winner of 3 vs. 4 for the second qualification spot.

qualifies to participate in the worlds
2011 World Wheelchair Curling Championship
The 2011 World Wheelchair Curling Championship was held in Prague, Czech Republic from February 22 - March 1, 2011. Ten mixed gender teams competed for four playoff spots...

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK