Curling

Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

 will be contested at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games, officially known as the I Winter Youth Olympic Games , will be an international multi-sport event for youths that will take place in Innsbruck from 13 to 22 January 2012. They will become the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics, a major sports and cultural festival...

 at the Innsbruck Exhibition Centre in Innsbruck

Innsbruck

- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 from 15 January to 22 January 2012. The mixed team event will take place from 14 January to 18 January, while the mixed doubles tournament will take place from 20 January to 22 January.

Medal table

Total

Events

Mixed team
Mixed doubles

Format of Play

In the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, there will be two tournaments and two sets of medals awarded for each tournament. There will be a mixed team curling

Mixed curling

Mixed curling, also known as Coed curling, is the sport of curling, when played by men and women together. Some community and school level curling is mixed, while most top-level curling championships are divided into men's and women's divisions. A normal mixed team consists of 2 men and 2 women...

 tournament and a mixed NOC doubles curling tournament.

Mixed Team Curling

The mixed team curling teams will consist of two boys and two girls from the same NOC/country.

The sixteen qualified teams will compete in two divisions of round robin play. The top four teams from each group will advance to the quarterfinals, where the teams will play a single knockout tournament to determine the winner.

Mixed NOC Doubles Curling

The mixed NOC doubles curling teams will consist of one boy and one girl from different NOCs. The purpose of mixed-NOCs in mixed doubles is to encourage an international sense of community.

The mixed doubles competition will take place after the mixed team competition; the same athletes competing in the mixed event will compete in the mixed doubles event. The mixed doubles teams will be selected by the organizing committee based on the final ranking from the mixed team competition. The resulting 32 teams will play a single knockout round to determine the winner.

Qualification summary

To qualify, countries gain points at the European Junior Curling Challenge, Pacific Junior Curling Championships, and the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships

2011 World Junior Curling Championships

The 2011 World Junior Curling Championships were held March 5-13 at the Dewars Centre in Perth, Scotland. In the men's tournament, Sweden's Oskar Eriksson won the final 6-5 over Switzerland's Peter de Cruz, while Scotland's Eve Muirhead won 10-3 in the final over Canada's Trish Paulsen in the...

. The NOC then determines the composition of the mixed team, which will consist of two junior women and two junior men curlers.

Qualified teams in bold |

Region	Vacancies	Countries	Points for qualification
			EJCC Women	EJCC Men	PJCC Women	PJCC Men	WJCC Women	WJCC Men	Total
Host Nation	1	'	Not required
North America North America North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...	2	'	Not required*
		'
South America South America South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...	1		Not required*
Asia Asia Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...	3	'	Not required**
		'
		'
Oceania Oceania Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...	1	'	DNP		6	4	DNP		10
			DNP		2	2	DNP		4
Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	8	'	10	DNP			12	16	38
		'	DNP				15	20	35
		'	DNP				20	14	34
		'	DNP				14	18	32
		'	DNP	10	DNP		10	10	30
		'	DNP	8	DNP			16	24
		'	8	5	DNP				13
		'	DNP					11	11
		'	6	2	DNP				8
			2	6	DNP				8
			3	4	DNP				7
			5	DNP				0	5
			4	1	DNP				5
			DNP	3	DNP				3
			1	0	DNP				1
			DNP	0	DNP		0	DNP	0
TOTAL	16

*The North American and South American teams are qualified automatically by virtue of their affiliation with the World Curling Federation

World Curling Federation

The World Curling Federation is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with offices in Perth, Scotland. It was formed out of the International Curling Federation , when the push for Olympic Winter Sport status was made...

, since the number of qualification spots equals the number of nations affilated with the WCF.

**The Asian teams are qualified as no more than three nations affiliated in the region chose to participate.

Brazil declined the invitation to the Winter Youth Olympics, so Italy were invited to replace Brazil, per Italy's World Curling Ranking

World Curling Rankings

On December 6, 2006, the World Curling Federation created a World Ranking of curling countries much like FIFA's World ranking. The WCF created it in an effort to keep track and list success' accomplished by the 45 members of the association, at the various major events which are held throughout...

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External Links

• Innsbruck 2012 - Curling Home