World Junior-B Curling Championships

World Junior-B Curling Championships
World Junior-B Curling Championships
Established	1999
2023 host city	Lohja, Finland
2023 arena	Kisakallio Sports Institute
Current champions (2023)
Men	Canada
Women	China
Current edition
	2023 World Junior-B Curling Championships

The World Junior-B Curling Championships are an annual curling bonspiel. The championships feature curlers under the age of 21 competing to qualify for three spots in the World Junior Curling Championships. Nations that participate are those which have not already qualified for the World Junior Championships. The competition originally was established in 1999, then was replaced after the 2003-04 season with the European Junior Curling Challenge and Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships. In 2016, the Junior-B Championships were brought back to replace the European and Pacific-Asia Junior Championships.^[1]

The 2021 World Junior-B Championships were scheduled to be held in Lohja, Finland, but in September 2020 the World Curling Federation announced they would be cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

Summary edit

Skips of each winning team are listed below their corresponding nation

Men edit

Year	Host City/Country	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host City/Country	Champion	Score	Second Place	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1999	Hamburg, Germany	Norway Thomas Berntsen	N/A^[a]	Czech Republic Vit Nekovarik	France Jérémy Frarier	N/A^[a]	Austria Marco Reiner
2001	Tårnby, Denmark	France Richard Ducroz	N/A^[a]	Russia Alexander Kirikov	Italy Joël Retornaz	N/A^[a]	Norway Thomas Løvold
2002	Hügelsheim, Germany	Norway Thomas Løvold	N/A^[a]	Russia Alexander Kirikov	Czech Republic Petr Sulc	5–4	France Jérémy Frarier
2003	Tårnby, Denmark	Norway Thomas Løvold	4–3	Finland Tuomas Vuori	United States Kristopher Perkovich	4–3	France Richard Ducroz
2004	Tårnby, Denmark	South Korea Kim Soo-hyuk	9–5	Italy Joël Retornaz	Czech Republic Milos Hoferka	N/A^[a]	Finland Riku Harjula
2016	Lohja, Finland	Russia Alexander Eremin	5–2	Denmark Tobias Thune	South Korea Lee Ki-jeong	4–2	Germany Marc Muskatewitz
2017	Östersund, Sweden	China Jie Yuan Ming	5–2	Turkey Uğurcan Karagöz	Italy Marco Onnis	5–2	Germany Marc Muskatewitz
2018	Lohja, Finland	China Wang Zhiyu	5–4	Russia Aleksandr Bystrov	Germany Sixten Totzek	6–4	Spain Gontzal Garcia
2019 (January)	Lohja, Finland	New Zealand Matthew Neilson	8–4	Italy Luca Rizzolli	China Wang Weihaoping	6–4	South Korea Lee Jae-beom
2019 (December)	Lohja, Finland	Sweden Daniel Magnusson	6–5	Italy Giacomo Colli	Germany Sixten Totzek	5–4	France Eddy Mercier
2021	Lohja, Finland	Cancelled^[2]			Cancelled
2022 (January)	Lohja, Finland	Suspended			Suspended
2022 (December)	Lohja, Finland	China Fei Xueqing	7–2	Italy Giacomo Colli	Turkey Serkan Karagöz	6–5	Sweden Axel Landelius
2023	Lohja, Finland	Canada Johnson Tao	7–4	United States Wesley Wendling	Denmark Jacob Schmidt	7–5	New Zealand Sam Flanagan

Women edit

Year	Host City/Country	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host City/Country	Champion	Score	Second Place	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1999	Hamburg, Germany	Germany Cornelia Stock	N/A^[a]	Russia Nina Golovtchenko	Denmark Louise Jensen	N/A^[a]	Italy Erica de Salvador
2001	Tårnby, Denmark	Germany Daniela Jentsch	N/A^[a]	Denmark Madeleine Dupont	Italy Diana Gaspari	N/A^[a]	Czech Republic Lenka Danielisova
2002	Hügelsheim, Germany	Germany Daniela Jentsch	N/A^[a]	Italy Diana Gaspari	Denmark Denise Dupont	N/A^[a]	Czech Republic Hana Synácková
2003	Tårnby, Denmark	Russia Nkeirouka Ezekh	N/A^[a]	Norway Linn Githmark	Denmark Nete Larsen	N/A^[a]	Czech Republic Sárka Doudová
2004	Tårnby, Denmark	Denmark Madeleine Dupont	N/A^[a]	Russia Liudmila Privivkova	Czech Republic Sárka Doudová	N/A^[a]	South Korea Kim Ji-Suk
2016	Lohja, Finland	Russia Evgeniya Demkina	6–3	Japan Ayano Tsuchiya	Hungary Dorottya Palancsa	9–2	Estonia Marie Turmann
2017	Östersund, Sweden	Scotland Sophie Jackson	7–4	Turkey Dilşat Yıldız	Japan Misaki Tanaka	6–3	China Zhang Lijun
2018	Lohja, Finland	China Wang Zixin	4–2	Turkey Dilşat Yıldız	Norway Maia Ramsfjell	5–4	New Zealand Jessica Smith
2019 (January)	Lohja, Finland	Scotland Beth Farmer	5–3	Russia Vlada Rumiantseva	Japan Ami Enami	6–5	Hungary Linda Joó
2019 (December)	Lohja, Finland	Japan Sae Yamamoto	7–1	Latvia Evelīna Barone	Denmark Mathilde Halse	8–2	Hungary Linda Joó
2021	Lohja, Finland	Cancelled^[2]			Cancelled
2022 (January)	Lohja, Finland	Cancelled			Cancelled
2022 (December)	Lohja, Finland	Canada Emily Deschenes	5–4	Scotland Fay Henderson	South Korea Kang Bo-bae	11–10	Turkey Ilknur Urusan
2023	Lohja, Finland	China Li Ziru	6–3	Canada Myla Plett	Germany Sara Messenzehl	7–5	Turkey Ilknur Urusan

Notes edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Not played due to format of tournament.

References edit

^ "Lohja, Finland to host two World Curling Championship qualification events". World Curling Federation. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "World Curling Federation cancels five 2020-2021 season qualification events". Around the Rings. 1 September 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2021.

[fn1-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Not played due to format of tournament.

[1] "Lohja, Finland to host two World Curling Championship qualification events". World Curling Federation. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

[:0-2] "World Curling Federation cancels five 2020-2021 season qualification events". Around the Rings. 1 September 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2021.

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World Junior-B Curling Championships
Established	1999
2023 host city	Lohja, Finland
2023 arena	Kisakallio Sports Institute
Current champions (2023)
Men	Canada
Women	China
Current edition
2023 World Junior-B Curling Championships