ALMATY – Sweden’s women’s and Norway’s men’s teams have won the bronze medals on the penultimate day (Monday 6 February) of the curling competition at the Winter Universiade being held in the Almaty Arena, in Kazakhstan. Following a 4-7 defeat to Canada in Monday morning’s semi-finals Isabella Wranaa’s team bounced back […]
ALMATY – It’s not unusual when children take after their parents. And there are two female curlers who decided to walk the path of their fathers at the 28th Winter Universiade. Briar Hürlimann of Switzerland is daughter of 1998 Olympic champion skip Patrick Hürlimann and Norway’s Pia Trulsen is the daughter of 2002 […]
ALMATY – At the conclusion of the Winter Universiade Games curling round robin – being held in the Almaty Arena, Kazakhstan – on Saturday (4 February), seven of the eight teams for the play-offs were decided. One tie-breaker is required on Sunday (5 February). The tie-breaker will be between Switzerland […]
ALMATY – Great Britain’s men’s team have become the first team to qualify for the curling play-offs in the 2017 Winter Universiade, being held in the Almaty Arena, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Skip Bruce Mouat’s team kept their 100% round robin record intact, in the penultimate day of the round robin, with a […]
ALMATY – The round robin stage of the Winter Universiade curling event, taking place in the Almaty Arena this week, passed its halfway point on Thursday, 2 February – there are three more days of round robin play to go. Great Britain men remain unbeaten after a 10-1 win over […]
ALMATY – Great Britain lead both the women’s and men’s standings after three days of round robin play at the Winter Universiade in Almaty, Kazakhstan. On the women’s side Switzerland are also in joint-first place with four wins and a loss, while GBs men’s team are the only team still on […]
ALMATY – After two days of round robin play at the Winter Universiade in Almaty, Kazakhstan Great Britain’s men’s team and Switzerland’s women’s team have won all three of their games, so far. Bruce Mouat’s GB team beat Canada 9-4 on Tuesday morning, before going onto post a 7-4 victory over Norway, […]
ALMATY – Russia and Switzerland women were the two unbeaten teams on day one (Monday 30 January) at the Winter Universiade Games in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Russia – lead by Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2016 gold medal winning skip, Victoria Moiseeva – won their first two games against Great Britain 7-3 and Norway […]
