Curling at the 2017 Asian Winter Games

Curling ; at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Venue	Sapporo Curling Stadium
Dates	18 February 2017 – 24 February 2017
Competitors	52 from 6 nations

Curling at the 2017 Asian Winter Games was held in Sapporo, Japan between 18–24 February at Sapporo Curling Stadium.^[1] A total of two events were contested: a men's and women's tournaments.^[2] Curling returns to the competition schedule after missing out at the last edition of the games in 2011.

A total of eleven teams from six countries (six men and five women) contested the curling competitions.^[3]^[4]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	China Liu Rui Xu Xiaoming Ba Dexin Zang Jialiang Zou Qiang	Japan Yusuke Morozumi Tetsuro Shimizu Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Kosuke Morozumi Kosuke Hirata	South Korea Kim Soo-hyuk Park Jong-duk Kim Tae-hwan Nam Yoon-ho Yoo Min-hyeon
Women's team	China Wang Bingyu Wang Rui Liu Jinli Zhou Yan Yang Ying	South Korea Kim Eun-jung Kim Kyeong-ae Kim Seon-yeong Kim Yeong-mi	Japan Satsuki Fujisawa Mari Motohashi Chinami Yoshida Yurika Yoshida Yumi Suzuki

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	2	0	0	2
2	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
2	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
Totals (3 nations)		2	2	2	6

Participating nations

A total of 52 athletes from 6 nations competed in curling at the 2017 Asian Winter Games:^[5]

China (10)
Chinese Taipei (5)
Japan (10)

References

↑ "Sports and venues". www.sapporo2017.org/. Sapporo 2017 Organizing Committee. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
↑ "Sports Technical Handbook" (PDF). www.koreacurling.co.kr/. Sapporo Organizing Committee for the 8th Asian Winter Games. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
↑ "Curling Playing Schedule for the 8th Asian Winter Games Sapporo 2017" (PDF). www.sapporo2017.org/. 2017 Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
↑ "Asian Winter Games return to Sapporo for the third time". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
↑ "2017 Sapporo AWG sport entries by NOC". www.sapporo2017.org. 8th Sapporo Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.

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[1] "Sports and venues". www.sapporo2017.org/. Sapporo 2017 Organizing Committee. Retrieved 3 December 2016.

[2] "Sports Technical Handbook" (PDF). www.koreacurling.co.kr/. Sapporo Organizing Committee for the 8th Asian Winter Games. Retrieved 17 December 2016.

[3] "Curling Playing Schedule for the 8th Asian Winter Games Sapporo 2017" (PDF). www.sapporo2017.org/. 2017 Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.

[4] "Asian Winter Games return to Sapporo for the third time". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.

[5] "2017 Sapporo AWG sport entries by NOC". www.sapporo2017.org. 8th Sapporo Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.