, Heilongjiang

Heilongjiang

For the river known in Mandarin as Heilong Jiang, see Amur River' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. "Heilongjiang" literally means Black Dragon River, which is the Chinese name for the Amur. The one-character abbreviation is 黑...

) is an internationally elite curler

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...

 who trains out of Harbin

Harbin

Harbin ; Manchu language: , Harbin; Russian: Харби́н Kharbin ), is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, lying on the southern bank of the Songhua River...

, China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

.

He made his world championship debut at the 2008 Grand Forks World Championships

2008 World Men's Curling Championship

-Draw 2:April 5, 19:00-Draw 3:April 6, 09:00-Draw 4:April 6, 14:00-Draw 5:April 6, 19:00-Draw 6:April 7, 09:00-Draw 7:April 7, 14:00-Draw 8:April 7, 19:00-Draw 9:April 8, 09:00...

. Team China achieved their best result to date. In the round robin portion they achieved upset wins over Team Canada

Kevin Martin (curler)

Kevin Martin , nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He is a four-time Brier champion, has been to three Winter Olympics and is the gold medal winner in the 2010 Winter Olympics...

 and Team Norway

Thomas Ulsrud

Thomas Ulsrud is a Norwegian curler.Ulsrud has curled professionally since 1983. In his second World Junior Curling Championship in 1988, Ulsrud skipped Norway to a bronze medal....

. They would finish in third after the round robin and for the first time a men's team from the Pacific region would qualify for the Playoffs. In the 3 vs. 4 Playoff match

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...

, they lost to Team Norway, and again in the Bronze Medal Match.

Team China was less successful at the 2009 Moncton World Championships

2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship

The 2009 Ford Men's World Curling Championship was held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada from the 4th to the 12th of April, 2009 at the Moncton Coliseum...

, where it placed ninth overall.

Zang Jialiang has been selected to represent Team China

China at the 2010 Winter Olympics

China participated at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, sending its largest delegation at a Winter Olympics with 94 athletes...

 at the 2010 Winter Olympics

2010 Winter Olympics

The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, were a major international multi-sport event held from February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University...

 in Vancouver, Canada.

Teammates

2010 Vancouver Olympic Games

Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The curling competition of the 2010 Olympics was held at Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre in Vancouver. It is the fifth time that curling was on the Olympic program, after having been staged in 1924, 1998, 2002 and 2006...

• 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...
  
  , Skip
• 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:...
  
  , Third
• 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....
  
  , Second
• 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....
  
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