Curling at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Qualification to the curling tournaments at the Winter Olympics was determined through two methods. Nations could qualify teams by earning qualification points from performances at the 2012 and 2013 World Curling Championships. Teams could also qualify through an Olympic qualification event which was held in the autumn of 2013. Seven nations qualified teams via World Championship qualification points, while two nations qualified through the qualification event. As host nation, Russia qualified teams automatically, thus making a total of ten teams per gender in the curling tournaments.^[4]

Twelve nations participated, with the number of athletes participating per nation in parentheses. South Korea made its Olympic curling debut.

The men's curling competition began with a round-robin tournament, where every team played every other team. The top four teams from the round robin advanced to the playoffs.

Standings

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Sweden	Niklas Edin	9	8	1	60	44	38	30	18	8	86%	Playoffs
Canada	Brad Jacobs	9	7	2	69	53	39	36	14	7	84%
China	Liu Rui	9	7	2	67	50	41	37	11	5	85%
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	9	5	4	52	53	36	33	18	5	86%	Tiebreaker
Great Britain	David Murdoch	9	5	4	51	49	37	35	15	8	83%
Denmark	Rasmus Stjerne	9	4	5	54	61	32	37	17	4	81%
Russia	Andrey Drozdov	9	3	6	58	70	36	38	13	7	77%
Switzerland	Sven Michel	9	3	6	47	46	31	34	22	7	83%
United States	John Shuster	9	2	7	47	58	30	39	14	7	80%
Germany	John Jahr	9	1	8	53	74	38	39	10	9	76%

Results

v t e Team	CAN	CHN	DEN	GER	GBR	NOR	RUS	SWE	SUI	USA
Canada	—	9–8	7–6	11–8	7–5	10–4	7–4	6–7	4–5	8–6
China	8–9	—	7–4	11–7	6–5	7–5	9–6	5–6	5–4	9–4
Denmark	6–7	4–7	—	6–3	6–8	5–3	11–10	8–5	3–9	5–9
Germany	8–11	7–11	3–6	—	6–7	5–8	7–8	4–8	8–7	5–8
Great Britain	5–7	5–6	8–6	7–6	—	6–7	7–4	4–8	4–2	5–3
Norway	4–10	5–7	3–5	8–5	7–6	—	9–8	4–5	5–3	7–4
Russia	4–7	6–9	10–11	8–7	4–7	8–9	—	4–8	7–6	7–6
Sweden	7–6	6–5	5–8	8–4	8–4	5–4	8–4	—	7–5	6–4
Switzerland	5–4	4–5	9–3	8–9	2–4	3–5	6–7	5–7	—	6–3
United States	6–8	4–9	9–5	8–5	3–5	4–7	6–7	4–6	3–6	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

The top four teams at the conclusion of the round robin advanced to the playoffs. The fourth seed was determined by a tiebreaker game between Norway and Great Britain, which Great Britain won with a score of 6–5.

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	1	Sweden	5
	4	Great Britain	6
						4	Great Britain	3
						2	Canada	9
	2	Canada	10
	3	China	6			Bronze medal game
						1	Sweden	6
						3	China	4

Bronze medal game

Friday, 21 February, 12:30 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Sweden (Edin)	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	6
China (Liu)	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	4

Player percentages
Sweden		China
Viktor Kjäll	94%	Zang Jialiang	86%
Fredrik Lindberg	88%	Ba Dexin	91%
Sebastian Kraupp	76%	Xu Xiaoming	81%
Niklas Edin	94%	Liu Rui	86%
Total	88%	Total	86%

Gold medal game

Friday, 21 February, 5:30 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Great Britain (Murdoch)	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	3
Canada (Jacobs)	2	0	3	1	0	2	0	1	X	X	9

Player percentages
Great Britain		Canada
Michael Goodfellow	92%	Ryan Harnden	94%
Scott Andrews	67%	E. J. Harnden	92%
Greg Drummond	88%	Ryan Fry	81%
David Murdoch	69%	Brad Jacobs	95%
Total	79%	Total	91%

The women's curling competition began with a round-robin tournament, where every team played every other team. The top four teams from the round robin advanced to the playoffs.

Standings

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Canada	Jennifer Jones	9	9	0	72	40	43	27	12	14	86%	Playoffs
Sweden	Margaretha Sigfridsson	9	7	2	58	52	37	35	13	7	80%
Switzerland	Mirjam Ott	9	5	4	63	60	37	38	13	7	78%
Great Britain	Eve Muirhead	9	5	4	74	58	39	35	9	11	80%
Japan	Ayumi Ogasawara	9	4	5	59	67	39	41	4	10	76%
Denmark	Lene Nielsen	9	4	5	57	56	34	40	12	9	78%
China	Wang Bingyu	9	4	5	58	62	36	38	10	4	81%
South Korea	Kim Ji-sun	9	3	6	60	65	35	37	10	6	79%
Russia	Anna Sidorova	9	3	6	48	56	33	35	19	6	82%
United States	Erika Brown	9	1	8	42	75	33	40	8	5	76%

Results

v t e Team	CAN	CHN	DEN	GBR	JPN	RUS	KOR	SWE	SUI	USA
Canada	—	9–2	8–5	9–6	8–6	5–3	9–4	9–3	8–5	7–6
China	2–9	—	6–9	7–8	5–8	7–5	11–3	7–6	6–10	7–4
Denmark	5–8	9–6	—	8–7	3–8	4–7	7–4	6–7	6–7	9–2
Great Britain	6–9	8–7	7–8	—	12–3	9–6	10–8	4–6	6–8	12–3
Japan	6–8	8–5	8–3	3–12	—	8–4	7–12	4–8	9–7	6–8
Russia	3–5	5–7	7–4	6–9	4–8	—	4–8	4–5	6–3	9–6
South Korea	4–9	3–11	4–7	8–10	12–7	8–4	—	4–7	6–8	11–2
Sweden	3–9	6–7	7–6	6–4	8–4	5–4	7–4	—	9–8	7–6
Switzerland	5–8	10–6	7–6	8–6	7–9	3–6	8–6	8–9	—	7–4
United States	6–7	4–7	2–9	3–12	8–6	6–9	2–11	6–7	4–7	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

The top four teams at the conclusion of the round robin advanced to the playoffs.

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	1	Canada	6
	4	Great Britain	4
						1	Canada	6
						2	Sweden	3
	2	Sweden	7
	3	Switzerland	5			Bronze medal game
						4	Great Britain	6
						3	Switzerland	5

Bronze medal game

Thursday, 20 February, 12:30

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Great Britain (Muirhead)	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	6
Switzerland (Ott)	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	5

Player percentages
Great Britain		Switzerland
Claire Hamilton	91%	Janine Greiner	78%
Vicki Adams	74%	Carmen Küng	81%
Anna Sloan	74%	Carmen Schäfer	73%
Eve Muirhead	89%	Mirjam Ott	85%
Total	82%	Total	79%

Gold medal game

Thursday, 20 February, 17:30

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Jones)	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	X	6
Sweden (Sigfridsson)	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	X	3

Player percentages
Canada		Sweden
Dawn McEwen	99%	Margaretha Sigfridsson	94%
Jill Officer	76%	Maria Wennerström	88%
Kaitlyn Lawes	68%	Christina Bertrup	79%
Jennifer Jones	88%	Maria Prytz	85%
Total	82%	Total	86%

• Official Results Book – Curling