The 2009 Pacific Curling Championships

Pacific Curling Championships

The Pacific-Asia Curling Championships are an annual curling tournament, held every year in November or December. The top team receives a berth to the World Curling Championships, while the second-placed team also receives a berth if the championships are held in the Americas or in Europe...

were held Nov. 12-17 at the SCAP Karuizawa Arena in Karuizawa, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. The top two teams from the women's and the men's tournaments will qualify for the 2010 World Curling Championships

World Curling Championships

The World Curling Championships are annual curling events which showcase the world's best curlers, organized by the World Curling Federation. There are men's, women's and mixed championships. The men's championship started in 1959, while the women's in 1979...

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Teams

Nation	Skip	Third	Second	Lead
	Kim Forge	Laurie Weeden	Lyn Gill	Madeleine Wilson
	Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu Wang Bingyu is a Chinese curler. She is the skip of the national team, and throws last rocks.-Curling career:Wang began curling in 2001. By 2004, she played in her first international event- skipping the Chinese team at the World Junior B Curling Championships...	Liu Yin Liu Yin (curler) Liu Yin is a Chinese curler from Harbin. She plays third on the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Bingyu.Liu has played internationally for China since 2002, when she was an alternate on the team at the Pacific Curling Championships when she had only been curling for two years.In 2004, she...	Yue Qingshuang Yue Qingshuang Yue Qingshuang is a Chinese curler. She currently plays second on the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Bingyu....	Zhou Yan Zhou Yan (curler) Zhou Yan is a Chinese curler. She plays lead for the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Bingyu.Zhou curled in her first tournament after having only curled for 2 years, at the 2002 Pacific Curling Championships. At that time she played third for the team...
	Kim Yeomyeong	Kim Jisuk	Kang Yoori	Park Mina
	Bridget Becker	Marisa Jones	Brydie Donald	Natalie Campbell
	Moe Meguro Moe Meguro is a Japanese curler, born November 20, 1984 in Sorachi District, Hokkaidō.- History :Moe Meguro won her first medal at the international level at the 2004 Pacific Curling Championships winning the gold medal. She played lead under skip Yumie Hayashi....	Anna Ohmiya Anna Ohmiya is a Japanese curler, born October 12, 1989 in Tokoro District, Hokkaidō, Japan.Member of Team Aomori, Ohmiya competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada for Team Japan...	Mari Motohashi Mari Motohashi is a Japanese curler, born June 10, 1986 in Tokoro District, Abashiri Subprefecture, Hokkaidō.- History :Motohashi was a member of Team Aomori which was selected to represent Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics . At the 2006 Games she threw Second under skip Ayumi Onodera. She also competed with Team...	Kotomi Ishizaki Kotomi Ishizaki is a curler from Japan.Kotomi Ishizaki currently throws Lead stones for skip Moe Meguro.She made her World Championship debut at the 2003 Winnipeg World Championships playing lead for Shinobu Aota's team from Japan...

Standings

Country	W	L
	7	1
	6	2
	4	4
	2	6
	1	7

Scores

11-4 14-1 7-5 9-1 11-7 8-7 7-5 9-3 8-4 7-5 (11) 7-4 9-2 7-3 9-2 7-5 11-8 (11) 8-5 9-3 10-3 12-1

Teams

Nation	Skip	Third	Second	Lead
	Hugh Millikin Hugh Millikin Hugh Ronald Alexander Millikin is an Australian curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario.-Career:...	Ian Palangio	John Theriault	Ted Bassett Ted Bassett Edward John "Ted" Bassett was an English association football winger.-Career:Born and raised in London, Bassett played for a variety of local clubs in his teenage years, including Deptford Invicta, Croydon Common, Metrogas and Charlton Albion...
	Liu Rui Liu Rui Liu Rui is a Chinese curler.After a slow start in the 2009 World Men's Curling Championship, Liu switched to throw 4th stones while Fengchun Wang continued to call the game and throw 3rd stones.-Teams:...	Xu Xiaoming Xu Xiaoming Xu Xiaoming is an internationally elite curler from China.His team won bronze in the Curling at the 2007 Asian Winter Games and he will be competing for China at the 2010 Winter Olympics. In Vancouver he will throw Second stones for the Chinese team....	Wang Fengchun Wang Fengchun Wang Fengchun is a Chinese curler. He is the skip of the national team.Wang was selected by the Chinese government to play the sport of curling. In China, the national team curls as their profession. By 2002, he played in his first international event- when he played third for Xu Xiaoming at the...	Zong Jialing
	Randie Shen	Nick Wei-Ming Hsu	Brendon Bar-Kai Liu	Ting-Li Lin
	Kim Chang Min	Kim Min Chan	Lim Myung Sup	Jeong Tae Yeon
	Dan Mustapic	Scott Becker	Warren Kearney	Warren Dobson Warren Dobson Warren Dobson is a curler who was on the team for New Zealand at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He was on the teams that won the 2003 and 2004 Pacific Curling Championships.- References :...
	Yusuke Morozumi Yusuke Morozumi Yusuke Morozumi is a Japanese curler from the Karuizawa Curling Club.In 2008, by finishing 2nd at the Pacific Curling Championships he and his team qualified for the 2009 World Men's Curling Championships.- Teams :...	Tetsuro Shimizu	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi	Kosuke Morozumi

Standings

Country	W	L
	10	0
	8	2
	4	6
	4	6
	3	7
	1	9

Scores

9-3 9-6 (11) 8-7 (11) 8-5 11-4 9-6 9-5 9-8 (11) 4-2 9-3 8-3 9-3 7-6 (11) 7-6 8-1 9-7 7-4 8-2 9-5 9-4 10-2 8-0 8-6 8-4 8-4 8-7 8-6 9-8 8-6 7-3