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Curling: The Roarin' Game
Organization of Curling as a World Sport

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The coach helps a junior curler
‘sweep’ the stone

A Curlers Progress to the Olympics

To participate in Olympic curling is the pinnacle of a curlers career as it occurs at 4 year intervals rather than the yearly world championships.

An Olympic curler starts out as a member of a local club attached to a local ice-rink.

A curler becomes proficient enough to get selected for a top team which can win competitions at it’s local ice-rink.

The team progresses by winning into provincial competitions (where several ice-rinks compete)

The team then becomes a top contendor in competitions organised by WCF

They go on to win national championships (where all the provinces compete)

The team is selected to represent their country in international competition

After winning a qualifying competition or scoring enough ranking points, the team is selected as the Olympic team!

 

The World Curling Federation is the governing body for international curling and:

  • is a non-profit making corporation regulated by the Civil Code of Switzerland.
  • officially recognises The Royal Caledonian Curling Club, as the Mother Club of Curling.

The purpose and aims of the WCF are:

  • to represent curling internationally and to facilitate the growth of such sport through the nations of the world;
  • to promote co-operation and mutual understanding amongst Member Nations and to unite curlers throughout the world;
  • to defend and further the interests of world curling;
  • to conduct world curling competitions;
  • to formulate rules of the sport of curling for world competitions and all other competitions approved by the WCF;
  • to respect the autonomy of its Member Nations which are split into 3 zones.

The world championship is contested yearly from the Host country + top 7 European nations + top American nation and the top Pacific nation.

European, American and Pacific championships are the individual zonal championships.

Each country within the WCF holds it’s own national championships also.

Championships are held for Men, Women, Junior Men and Junior Women (junior is aged 21 and under) and in 2002 there will be wheelchair-curling championships for the disabled.

The Olympics are organised outwith the WCF but under it’s rules by national Olympic Curling Committees.
 



Zone 1: Europe
The Royal Caledonian Curling Club (Scotland)
Andorra Curling Association
Austrian Curling Association
Belarusian Curling Association
Bulgarian Curling Association
Czech Curling Association
Danish Curling Association
English Curling Association
Finnish Curling Association
French Curling Association
German Curling Association
Hungarian Curling Association
Icelandic Curling Association
Israel Curling Association
Italian Ice-Sports Federation
Latvian Curling Association
Liechtenstein Curling Association
Luxembourg Curling Association
Netherlands Curling Association
Norwegian Curling Association
Romanian Curling Association
Royal Spanish Winter Sports Federation
Russian Curling Federation
Swedish Curling Association
Swiss Curling Association
Welsh Curling Association

  



Zone 2: The Americas
Brazilian Curling Association
Canadian Curling Association
Mexican Curling Association
United States Curling Association
US Virgin Islands Curling Association

Zone 3: The Pacific
Australian Curling Federation
Japan Curling Association
Korean Curling Federation
New Zealand Curling Association
Chinese Taipei Curling Federation

Junior Girls deciding the score
(2 to yellow, close call!)
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