The 2021 Women's Curling World Championships will be held in Calgary, Canada, from April 30 to May 9, and athletes and event staff from 14 teams have followed strict epidemic prevention measures, spent a short period of quarantine, and undergone frequent tests and health checks. Like the 2021 Men's Curling World Championships, the Women's World Championships will be played without spectators.
The 2020-2021 curling season has had difficult restarts. The first is the allocation of qualifications, the cancellation of the regional qualifications, the world pot federation announced a new shortlisted qualification plan, the new plan is disputed, the pot federation announced the supplementary expansion plan, after a series of turmoil, finally this women's world championship changed the norm of the previous 13 teams, there are 14 teams participating. At this time, the Chinese women's team holds the seat won by the 2019 Asia-Pacific Championship champion and is not disturbed by the storm. Secondly, the calendar is almost revised, in December 2020, the World Curling Federation announced for the first time the time and place of the three major world championships in curling in 2021, of which the women's world championship was held in Schaffhausen, Switzerland from March 20 to 28, 2021, but in February 2021, due to the local health department of Switzerland not supporting the hosting of the tournament under the epidemic, the world curling union directly announced the cancellation of the game, and the substitute option even included the winter Olympic qualification selection competition, and finally the women's world championship in March 2021 announced the resumption, It took place in Calgary, Canada, from April 30 to May 9.
Frequent changes in the calendar have had a certain impact on the preparation of each team, and many teams will set up training cycles around the World Championships in order to adjust the best competitive state to the most important events, and the Chinese team is no exception. The impact of this change may be seen at this World Championship, but it treats all teams equally, and how to reduce the fluctuation of status due to unexpected situations is a compulsory course for top teams.
Representing host Canada in the tournament is Cray Enathon, who have won the Canadian Championship in the past two seasons, and in the just-concluded Grand Slam Players Championship, they defeated the well-known Homan team to win the championship, and are a strong contender for the gold medal at the World Championships. Also highly competitive are the 2019 World Championships gold medal team Sylvana Tirinzoni in Switzerland and the Swedish anna Heatherberg team in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the silver medalist team of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Kim Eun-jing from South Korea, will also participate in the World Championships.
Like the 2021 Men's Curling World Championships, the top 6 of the Women's World Championships will advance to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, while the remaining teams that fail to secure tickets are eligible to compete for the final possibility through the Winter Olympic qualification tournament in December 2021. The Chinese women's team, which has won the presidency of the Winter Olympics, is the least stressed team, and this time sent the first base Jiang Xindi, the second base and deputy commander Zhang Lijun, the third base Dong Ziqi and the fourth base and captain Han Yu, the combination of substitute Yanhui, this is the first time that the 20-year-old Han Yu led the team to participate in the World Championships. As the youngest player in this World Championship, what kind of performance she will have is looking forward to.
Reporter Peng Xiaoen
Source: China Sports News