CURLING CANADA • 2021 LGT WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY BKT TIRES • MEDIA GUIDE 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION WORLD CURLING FEDERATION EXECUTIVE BOARD & STAFF 3 BOARD OF GOVERNORS & NATIONAL STAFF 4 EVENT INFORMATION MEDIA INFORMATION 5 FACT SHEET 6 EVENT DRAW 9 PRACTICE SCHEDULE 12 TEAM & PLAYER INFORMATION ROSTERS 13 TEAM BIOS 14 CANADA 14 CHINA 20 CZECH REPUBLIC 23 DENMARK 27 ESTONIA 31 GERMANY 34 ITALY 38 JAPAN 41 RCF 44 SCOTLAND 48 SOUTH KOREA 53 SWEDEN 56 SWITZERLAND 62 UNITED STATES 68 HISTORICAL INFORMATION RECORDS & STATISTICS 73 LIST OF WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONS 77 AWARDS 78 This Event has been made possible in part through a contribution from the Government of Canada. CURLING CANADA • 2021 LGT WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY BKT TIRES • MEDIA GUIDE 2 WORLD CURLING FEDERATION EXECUTIVE BOARD & STAFF BOARD STAFF CURLING CANADA • 2021 LGT WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY BKT TIRES • MEDIA GUIDE 3 BOARD OF GOVERNORS & NATIONAL STAFF CURLING CANADA 1660 Vimont Court Orléans, ON K4A 4J4 TEL: (613) 834-2076 FAX: (613) 834-0716 TOLL FREE: 1-800-550-2875 BOARD OF GOVERNORS Mitch Minken, Chair Chana Martineau, Governor Donna Krotz, Governor Kathy O’Rourke, Governor Amy Nixon, Governor Mike Szajewski, Governor Paul Addison, Governor Darren Oryniak, Governor Cathy Dalziel, Governor NATIONAL STAFF Katherine Henderson, Chief Executive Officer Marcy Hrechkosy, Event Manager Karen Ryan, Executive Assistant Kyle Jahns, Manager, Communication & Media Relations Stephanie Carbonette, Comptroller Robyn Mattie, Manager, Curling Club Championship Al Cameron, Director, Communication & Media Relations Helen Radford, Manager, Program Development Youth Feeder System Danny Lamoureux, Director, Club Development & Event Casey Sweeney, Manager, Reporting and Strategic Projects Operations Marylou Morris, Director, Client Services, National Marketing Rachel Delaney, Coordinator, Development & Championship Services Gerry Peckham, Director, High Performance Louise Delorme, Coordinator, National Athlete Services & Coaching Justin Perry, Director, Information Services & Technology Melissa Hicks, Sales Account Coordinator, Local Sponsorships, Event Operations Nolan Thiessen, Director, Broadcast, Marketing, Innovation Maddie Kelly, Marketing and Office Coordinator and Event Presentation and Athlete Liaison Brodie Bazinet, Foundation Manager Amanda MacKenzie, Marketing and Office Coordinator Andy Henry, Manager, Marketing & Tickets Louise Sauvé, Administrative Assistant Neil Houston, Event Manager JoAnne Viau, Coordinator, Financial Services CURLING CANADA • 2021 LGT WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY BKT TIRES • MEDIA GUIDE 4 MEDIA INFORMATION INTERVIEW REGULATIONS/PROCEDURES All 2021 LGT World Women’s Curling Championship media interviews will be virtual. Accredited media will receive a Zoom link that will be valid for the entirety of the event. Players will be brought to the mixed zone upon completion of their games and available for five-minute media scrums. It is the responsibility of the accredited media member to be on the Zoom call upon completion of the game as players will not be available after leaving the mixed zone unless pre-arranged in advance. All media scrums will be uploaded to Curling Canada’s YouTube page as soon as possible after each draw. During the round-robin and playoffstwo members of Team Canada will be available for virtual media scrums after every game regardless of winning or losing. Media with specific Team Canada requests should email them to media@ curling.ca. International teams are available for interviews by request only. Canadian media should email their request to [email protected] by no later than the eighth end for interviews with non-Canadian teams. Please include the Draw #, team and player name in the subject line of your e-mail. DRAW STATISTICS Live scores and stats are updated in real-time and can be viewed online at https://worldcurling.org/events/ wwcc2021?pageType=results TV NON-RIGHTS HOLDERS TSN/World Curling TV are the sole TV rights-holder for this event. However, in order to provide other stations and/or networks with an opportunity to get brief game/highlight footage, broadcast media may air two minutes of game footage daily in Canada from TSN, and must provide credit to TSN. For international media, no more than 90 (ninety) seconds per day for usage in any news and/or sports news programme. Usage permitted on all platforms of broadcasters (digital, web, social) as long as geo-blocked. Should be used within a period of 72 hours. No Archive. Credit must be provided to World Curling TV. TV non-rights holders may use as much post-game media scrum footage as they wish. No live hits, stand-ups or recording of non-broadcast games will be allowed to occur inside WinSport Arena at Canada Olympic Park. PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDELINES World Curling Federation and Curling Canada will have photographers at this event. Canadian media outlets in need of photos should e-mail [email protected]. International media outlets in need of photos should e-mail [email protected]. CURLING CANADA • 2021 LGT WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY BKT TIRES • MEDIA GUIDE 5 FACT SHEET OFFICIAL NAME: LGT World Women’s Curling Championship 2021, presented by BKT Tires DATE/SITE: April 30-May 9, 2021 - WinSport Arena at Canada Olympic Park, Calgary SEATING CAPACITY: 2,500 (not applicable) FORMAT: Fourteen teams compete in a 13-game round robin. The top two teams in the standings advance directly to the semifinals. The third through sixth ranked teams compete in qualification games (3 vs. 6; 4 vs. 5) with the winners advancing to the semifinals. The semifinal winners play in the gold-medal game and the losers play for bronze. No tiebreakers will be played, so ties for playoff spots are to be broken based on head-to-head results, and if that doesn’t resolve the tie, then the pre-game Last-Shot Draw distances will be used. INTERNET: Draw results and event information can be obtained at: https://worldcurling.org/events/wwcc2021?pageType=results TELEVISION: TSN, RDS2 (All draws) / World Curling TV HOW TEAMS QUALIFIED: With the cancellation of all world women’s and men’s world championship qualification events, a new qualification process for the 2021 world championships has been implemented. Qualification for the 2021 edition of both the world women’s and world men’s championships will now be determined through a combination of the 2019 qualification event results and the existing World Rankings. As there was no last place finisher in the cancelled 2020 editions of the world championships, the zonal allocation announced Sept. 1, 2020 for the originally scheduled 13-team event is: • Americas Zone – two places determined by the World Rankings Canada, United States • European Zone – eight places determined by the results from the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2019, including Switzerland as host Switzerland (HOST), Sweden, Scotland, RCF, Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia • Pacific-Asia Zone – two places determined by the results from the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2019 China, Japan • Final place based on World Rankings South Korea On Oct. 6, 2020 the World Curling Federation expanded the field of the women’s and men’s world championships from 13 to 14 teams to include those teams who had secured a place in the 2020 World Championships but failed to meet the qualification requirements for the 2021 championships. • Expanded field spot Italy CURLING CANADA • 2021 LGT WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP, PRESENTED BY BKT TIRES • MEDIA GUIDE 6 OLYMPIC Men’s and Women’s Qualification at World Championships: QUALIFYING: • The six highest ranked National Olympic Committees, of the Member Associations of the World Curling Federation, from the 2021 world women’s and world men’s curling championships will qualify for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 team competitions. • In the situation where the Chinese National Olympic Committee teams finish outside of the top six places at these events, it will qualify automatically for the respective Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 team competition through the allocation of the host country quota place. Men’s and Women’s Qualification Events: Three or four women’s and men’s teams will qualify from the Olympic Qualification Event 2021 — the number of qualification places available is dependent on China’s final placement at the 2021 world championships. Teams eligible to compete in the Olympic Qualification Event 2021 are: • Teams who qualified for the 2020 or 2021 world championships but have not already qualified for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 • The two highest ranking teams in the World Curling Federation Pre-Qualifier Event • The host National Olympic Committee of the Olympic Qualification Event 2021 GAME DURATION: Ten ends are scheduled with extra end(s) to break tied games. A minimum of eight (8) must completed in the play-off games, in any other games a minimum of six (6) ends must be completed. Extra end(s) will be played to break tied games. GAME TIMING: Thinking time will be used for this event. Each team receives 38 minutes to complete a ten-end game. Extra ends will be four minutes and 30 second (4:30) of thinking time for each team. A team’s clock begins: • Once the opposing team has completed their shot, all rocks have come to rest and moved behind the back line; AND • the opposing team’s sweepers have moved to the side of the sheet; AND • the opposition in charge of the house has relinquished control of the house; AND • the person in charge of the house (the delivering team) has taken control of the house. A team’s game clock stops once the stone has reached the nearest tee-line at the delivery end. TIMEOUTS: Each team is allotted one, 60-second timeout (plus travel time). The timeout must be signaled to the umpire and time clock operator. Either a coach OR alternate may attend the timeout, but not both.