The 2003 Continental Cup of Curling

Continental Cup of Curling

The Continental Cup of Curling is a curling tournament held annually between teams from North America against teams from the rest of the world. Each side is represented by six teams , and compete using a unique points system. The tournament is modeled after golf's Ryder Cup...

was held at Fort William Gardens

Fort William Gardens

The Fort William Gardens is a 4,690-capacity multi-purpose arena, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1951.Previous tenants include the Thunder Bay Flyers, of the 'Junior A' United States Hockey League, the Thunder Bay Senators/Thunder Bay Thunder Cats, of the Colonial Hockey League and...

 in Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay

-In Canada:Thunder Bay is the name of three places in the province of Ontario, Canada along Lake Superior:*Thunder Bay District, Ontario, a district in Northwestern Ontario*Thunder Bay, a city in Thunder Bay District*Thunder Bay, Unorganized, Ontario...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 November 27–30. Europe won its first title, 208-179.

Europe

Peja Lindholm

Peja Lindholm

Peter "Peja" Rutger Lindholm is a Swedish curler. He is a three-time world champion skip, winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004. He is also a two-time European champion and a former world junior champion .Lindholm announced his retirement from curling following the 2007 European Curling Championships...

, Tomas Nordin

Tomas Nordin

Tomas Nordin is a Swedish curler and world champion.He won a gold medal in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, all three times with skip Peja Lindholm, and received silver medal in 1998 and 2000.He is European champion from 1998 and 2001 , and has received a total of seven...

, Magnus Swartling

Magnus Swartling

Magnus Swartling is a Swedish curler and world champion.He won a gold medal in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, all three times with skip Peja Lindholm, and received silver medals in 1998 and 2000.Swartling is European champion from 1998 and 2001 , and has received a total of...

, Peter Narup

Peter Narup

Peter Narup is a Swedish curler and world champion.He won gold medals in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, and received silver medals in 1998 and 2000, all times with skip Peja Lindholm....

 Jackie Lockhart

Jackie Lockhart

Jacqueline "Jackie" Lockhart is a Scottish curler who has competed prolifically in major international competitions for Scotland, and for the Great Britain team that competes at the Olympic Winter Games.Having made her international debut at the 1983 European Championships, she went on to claim a...

, Sheila Swan, Katriona Fairweather, Ann Laird Hammy McMillan

Hammy McMillan

Hammy McMillan is a Scottish curler and world champion. He won a gold medal as skip for the Scottish team at the 1999 Ford World Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick. He has received five gold medals at the European Curling Championships...

, Norman Brown, Hugh Aitken, Roger McIntyre Anette Norberg

Anette Norberg

Anette Norberg is a Swedish curler from Nacka. She and her team are the current Olympic women's curling champions, having won the 2010 Women's Curling tournament in Vancouver...

, Eva Lund

Eva Lund

Eva Lund is a Swedish curler. , .Born in Stockholm, Sweden, as Eva Eriksson, she lives in Upplands Väsby, Stockholm, with her husband and Swedish national curling coach Stefan Lund and her son Adam and daughter Anna...

, Cathrine Lindahl

Cathrine Lindahl

Cathrine Lindahl is a Swedish curler from Östersund.Lindahl plays second for her sister Anette Norberg's team...

, Helena Lingham Dordi Nordby

Dordi Nordby

Dordi Agate Nordby, , is a Norwegian right-handed curler from Snarøya. Nordby has amassed an array of medals in major international competitions over a career spanning three decades, including two world championship gold medals and two European championship gold medals.Having made her international...

, Hanne Woods

Hanne Woods

Hanne Woods, née Pettersen is a Norwegian former world champion in curling.-International championships:...

, Marianne Haslum

Marianne Haslum

Marianne Haslum is a Norwegian curler.At major championships, she won bronze medals in 1993, 1995, 1996, 2000 and 2002, and silver in 1997 and 2004...

, Camilla Holth

Camilla Holth

Camilla Holth is a Norwegian curler. She won a silver medal at the 2004 World Curling Championships.-References:...

 Pål Trulsen

Pål Trulsen

Pål Trulsen is a Norwegian curler from Hosle in Bærum, and was the 2002 Olympic curling men's champion....

, Lars Vågberg

Lars Vågberg

Lars Vågberg is a Norwegian curler from Bærum.Vågberg began his international curling career in Sweden. In his first international tournament, he was the second Mikael Hasselborg's 1990 European Curling Championships winning team...

, Flemming Davanger

Flemming Davanger

Flemming Davanger is a Norwegian curler from Bærum.In his third World Junior Curling Championships in 1983, Davanger, playing second Pål Trulsen's Norwegian team picked up a silver medal, losing to Canada's John Base in the final...

, Bent Ånund Ramsfjell

Bent Ånund Ramsfjell

Bent Ånund Ramsfjell is a Norwegian curler from Asker. He is the younger brother of Eigil Ramsfjell, multiple curling world champion and bronze medallist atthe 1998 Winter Olympics competition in Nagano....

North America

Mark Dacey

Mark Dacey

Mark Dacey is a Canadian curler from the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but originally from Saskatchewan....

, Bruce Lohnes

Bruce Lohnes

Bruce Lohnes is a Canadian curler from Fall River, Nova Scotia. He plays third for Mark Dacey's team.Lohnes joined Dacey prior to the 2003 season. The team would go on to win the 2004 Nokia Brier and a bronze at the 2004 Ford World Curling Championships. The team has been to three Briers together...

, Rob Harris

Rob Harris (curler)

Robert "Rob" Harris is a Canadian curler.Harris played second for Mark Dacey's men's team from 2002 to 2007 and from 1998 to 1999. Harris also played Mixed with Dacey around this time...

, Andrew Gibson

Andrew Gibson

Andrew Gibson is a Canadian curler from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He currently plays second for Shawn Adams.Gibson was a member of Mark Dacey's rink from 2003 to 2010. He has been to the Brier three times with Dacey winning the Brier in 2004. In 2004 he won a bronze medal at the World Curling...

 David Nedohin

David Nedohin

David Nedohin is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. He throws fourth rocks for the Randy Ferbey rink.-Curling career:...

, Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....

, Scott Pfeifer

Scott Pfeifer

Scott Pfeifer is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park who plays out of the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton....

, Marcel Rocque

Marcel Rocque

Marcel Rocque is a Canadian curler home to the city of Edmonton, Alberta. He is a four-time winner of The Brier, the annual Canadian men's curling championship and a three-time World Champion as the lead for the Randy Ferbey team...

 Pete Fenson

Pete Fenson

Peter Fenson is an American curler, skip of the men's rink which represented the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The rink took the bronze medal, the first ever Olympic medal for the United States in curling...

, Eric Fenson, Shawn Rojeski

Shawn Rojeski

Shawn Rojeski is an American curler from Chisholm, Minnesota and Olympic medalist. He was born and raised in Biwabik, Minnesota and attended Mesabi East High School. Under skip Pete Fenson, he received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, playing as the third...

, John Shuster

John Shuster

John Shuster is an American curler and Olympic medalist from Chisholm, Minnesota. He received a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin...

 Colleen Jones

Colleen Jones

Colleen P. Jones is a Canadian curler and television personality. She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row...

, Kim Kelly

Kim Kelly (curler)

Kim Kelly is a Canadian curler, throwing second stones for Mary-Anne Arsenault's Nova Scotia rink...

, Mary-Anne Arsenault

Mary-Anne Arsenault

Mary-Anne Arsenault is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the long time second for Colleen Jones' team with whom she has won five Canadian championships, and two World Curling Championships...

, Nancy Delahunt

Nancy Delahunt

Nancy Delahunt is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Delahunt currently plays third for Colleen Jones. Delahunt was a longtime member of the Colleen Jones team which won five Scott Tournament of Hearts and two World Curling Championships...

 Debbie McCormick

Debbie McCormick

Debbie McCormick is an American curler from Rio, Wisconsin. Although born in Canada, McCormick moved to Madison, Wisconsin, when she was very young...

, Allison Pottinger

Allison Pottinger

Allison Pottinger is an American curler from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She currently skips her own team, but is best known as having played for Debbie McCormick in multiple Olympics and World Championships. McCormick left the team in 2010. She competed in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, in...

, Ann Swisshelm Silver, Tracy Sachtjen

Tracy Sachtjen

Tracy Sachtjen is an American curler from Lodi, Wisconsin.Tracy Sachtjen started curling in 1982 and by 1987 had made her first US Junior National Championships. Her first appearance at the United States National Championships came in 1993 and in 1997 she won her first gold medal at the event with...

 Sherry Middaugh

Sherry Middaugh

Sherry L. Middaugh is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich....

, Kirsten Wall

Kirsten Wall

Kirsten Wall is a Canadian curler from Oakville, Ontario.In 1995 she won the provincial junior curling championship as a skip earning her team the right to represent Ontario at the 1995 Canadian Junior Curling Championships...

, Andrea Lawes, Sheri Cordina

Mixed doubles

(Each game worth six points)

• North America (Ferbey/Wall) 8-6 Europe (Nordby/Vågberg)
• North America (Jones/Lohnes) 11-4 Europe (McMillan/Swan)
• North America (Dacey/Kelly) 9-8 Europe (Nordin/Norberg)
• Europe (Lockhart/Brown) 7-4 North America (P. Fenson/Pottinger)
• North America (Nedohin/Middaugh) 9-3 Europe (Lindholm/Lund)
• Europe (Trulsen/Woods) 8-6 (McCormick/E. Fenson)

North America wins 24-12

Women's team

(Each game worth six points)

• Europe (Lockhart) 5-4 North America (Jones)
• North America (Middaugh) 5-4 Europe (Nordby)
• Europe (Norberg) 6-2 North America (McCormick)
• Europe (Norberg) 6-5 North America (Middaugh)
• North America (McCormick) 10-7 Europe (Nordby)
• Europe (Lockhart) 5-3 North America (Jones)

Europe wins 24-12

Men's team

(Each game worth six points)

• North America (Fenson) 6-3 Europe (Trulsen)
• North America (Ferbey) 5-3 Europe (McMillan)
• Europe (Lindholm) 7-2 North America (Dacey)
• Europe (Lindholm) 5-3 North America (Ferbey)
• North America (Dacey) 5-3 Europe (McMillan)
• Europe (Trulsen) 10-1 North America (Fenson)

Tie 18-18

Singles

(Each game worth four points, eight bonus points awarded to top aggregate score)

• North America (Wall) 14-13 Europe (Norberg)
• Europe (Haslum) 15-7 North America (Jones)
• North America (McCormick) 14-12 Europe (Lockhart)
• Europe (Swartling) 22-19 North America (Pfeifer)
• North America (P. Fenson) 17-15 Europe (Davanger)
• Europe (McMillan) 19-17 North America (Dacey)

Europe wins 20-12

Women's skins

(Each skin is worth one point)

• North America (McCormick) 23-7 Europe (Nordby)
• North America (Jones) 23-17 Europe (Lockhart)
• Europe (Norberg) 60-0 North America (Middaugh)

Europe wins 84-46

Men's skins

(Each skin is worth one point)

• Europe (McMillan) 16-14 North America (Fenson)
• North America (Dacey) 23-17 Europe (Trulsen)
• North America (Ferbey) 30-17 Europe (Lindhom) (game not completed)

North America wins 67-50

Europe wins aggregate 208-179