This year’s event will be taking place in the Far East, as stars from around the globe converge on Beijing, China to test their mettle and attempt to bring gold and glory back to their home nation. It is the first time in history that the championships will be contested in an Asian nation, making this a special occasion for the sport.
Whether you are a casual fan that enjoyed watching the discipline at the Olympics or a hardcore curling fanatic, you won’t want to miss a single minute of this thrilling event.
Keep reading and come back often for a complete look at the schedule, updated scores and daily recaps of all the action during the 2014 World Men’s Curling Championship.
When: March 29 through April 6
Where: Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing, China
Complete Schedule
2014 World Men's Curling Championship Schedule Date Time (local) Draw Sheet A Sheet B Sheet C Sheet D
March 29 2 p.m. 1 SUI v RUS USA v CZE GER v CHN SCO v SWE
7 p.m. 2 DEN v CAN RUS v GER SWE v USA NOR v JPN
March 30 9 a.m. 3 CHN v SCO SUI v CZE
2 p.m. 4 SWE v GER JPN v CAN DEN v NOR USA v RUS
7 p.m. 5 CZE v NOR DEN v SUI JPN v SCO CHN v CAN
March 31 9 a.m. 6 USA v JPN NOR v SWE CAN v RUS DEN v GER
2 p.m. 7 RUS v SWE CZE v CHN USA v GER SUI v SCO
7 p.m. 8 NOR v CHN SUI v JPN SCO v DEN CAN v CZE
April 1 9 a.m. 9 GER v SUI USA v SCO CZE v SWE RUS v CHN
2 p.m. 10 CAN v USA SWE v DEN RUS v JPN GER v NOR
7 p.m. 11 CZE v SCO CAN v NOR CHN v SUI JPN v DEN
April 2 9 a.m. 12 CHN v DEN JPN v CZE NOR v SCO CAN v SUI
2 p.m. 13 SUI v SWE SCO v RUS GER v CZE CHN v USA
7 p.m. 14 JPN v GER DEN v USA SWE v CAN NOR v RUS
April 3 9 a.m. 15 USA v NOR GER v CAN DEN v RUS SWE v JPN
2 p.m. 16 SCO v CAN NOR v SUI JPN v CHN CZE v DEN
7 p.m. 17 RUS v CZE CHN v SWE SUI v USA SCO v GER
April 4 9 a.m. Tiebreaker
2 p.m. Tiebreaker
7 p.m. Play-Offs 1v2*
April 5 1 p.m. Play-Offs 3v4*
4 p.m. Semi Final
April 6 10 a.m. Bronze Medal Game
3 p.m. Gold Medal Game
The World Curling Federation (WCF) breaks new ground when the World Men's Curling Championship 2014, presented by Ford of Canada, gets underway on Saturday 29th March in Beijing's Capital Gymnasium.
This is the first WCF World Championship event to be staged in China and only the third time that any WCF World Championship has been hosted in the Pacific-Asia region. Previously, World Women’s Curling Championships were held in Aomori, Japan in 2007 and in Gangneung, Korea in 2009.
Located in the city’s Haidian district, the Beijing Capital Gymnasium was recently renovated in preparation for hosting the volleyball events during the 2008 Olympic Games.
Twelve of the top men's curling Teams in the world will be participating in this Venue. They will represent Canada; hosts China; the Czech Republic; Denmark; Germany; Japan; Norway; Russia; Scotland; Sweden; Switzerland and the USA.
Five of these Teams - China, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Russia took part in the recent Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
In this field, Canada is represented by Kevin Koe and his team who won the word title in their only previous appearance at this level - in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy in 2010.
The Chinese team, skipped by Rui Liu, made a significant impact at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games because of their performances, which culminated in them playing for bronze medals against Niklas Edin and his team from Sweden, the reigning world champions.
Although China didn’t win, their fourth place finish was China men’s best ever Olympic performance.
The Czech Republic team is led by Jiri Snitil again and they have been pathfinders for international curling in their country, having won bronze medals at European level in the past.
Denmark, who lost out to Scotland in last year’s World Championship bronze medal game, are skipped by Rasmus Stjerne. He returns with a slightly different line-up to the team that finished sixth at the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
Germany skip John Jahr was winning world medals as long ago as 1987, when he took the silver medal. After a long lay-off, he has led Germany through a successful campaign this season which saw his team qualify for the Sochi Olympics through the Olympic Qualification Event held in Fuessen, Germany.
Japan’s national champions, led by Yusuke Morozumi, were runners up in the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in 2013. They will be looking to finish better than last year’s 11th place finish at the Ford World Men’s Curling Championship.
Norway are represented by the vastly experienced Thomas Ulsrud and this team counts Olympic silver medals in Vancouver, 2010 among their achievements.
The Russian team, skipped by Andrey Drozdov, who plays second stones, finished seventh at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.
Scotland are skipped by Ewan MacDonald, who, with three world titles to his name, is Scotland's most successful international curler, although this is his first appearance as skip.
As part of their high-level performance programme, Sweden have selected the team led by Oskar Eriksson rather than the team skipped by Niklas Edin who won last year's world title in Victoria, Canada and then took Olympic bronze in Sochi this season.
Switzerland's team, led by Peter de Cruz, are former World Junior champions. They beat their country's Olympic representatives, skipped by Sven Michel, in this season's national final to gain the right to play in Beijing.
Three members of the USA team, including skip Pete Fenson, are Olympic bronze medallists from Turin in 2006. They have emerged this year from the USA's new performance programme to represent their country in Beijing.
Following the opening ceremony on Saturday 29th March, the Teams battle it out in 17 sessions of round-robin play, until the evening of Thursday 3rd April. After this, tie-breakers will be played, if needed, to determine the top four ranked Teams.
Then, as in all WCF Championship events, curling's Page play-off system will be used, in which the top two ranked Teams from the round-robin face each other, with the winner of that game going direct to the gold medal game.
The loser of that game is given a second chance by playing a semi-final against the winner of the play-off between the Teams ranked third and fourth.
The winner of that sole semi-final goes onto the final to play for gold or silver, and the loser faces the loser of the three versus four Page play-off for the bronze medals.
These gold and bronze medal games take place on Sunday 6th April.
Both the men's and women's 2014 World Curling Championships mark the start of a new qualification period for the next Olympic Winter Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang, Korea.
All WCF Member Associations competing in Beijing (and earlier at the Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Saint John, Canada) are eligible to enter the next WCF Olympic Qualification Event which is Scheduled to take place in 2017 should they not make it to the 2018 Olympics through direct points qualification.
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