The WCT Arctic Cup (previously known as the Taimyr Cup, the CCT Arctic Cup and the Nornickel Curling Cup) is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place in late May at the Taimyr Ice Arena in Dudinka, Russia. The tournament is held in a Round Robin format. The tournament is part of the World Curling Tour. In 2016, the inaugural event was held between Russian men's teams. In 2017 and 2019 it was a women's event, and in 2018 and 2021 it was a mixed doubles event. In 2022, it was held in an open entry format where men's and women's teams competed against each other.

WCT Arctic Cup
Host cityDudinka, Russia
ArenaTaimyr Ice Arena
Current men's winnerRussia Alexey Stukalskiy
Current women's winnerScotland Eve Muirhead
Current mixed doubles winnerSwitzerland Briar Hürlimann / Yannick Schwaller
Current open winnerRussia Sergey Glukhov
Current2022 Nornickel Curling Cup

Men's champions edit

Year Winning team Runner up team Third place Fourth place Purse (USD)
2016[1]   Alexey Stukalskiy, Andrey Drozdov, Artur Razhabov, Anton Kalalb, Petr Dron   Alexander Eremin (Fourth), Mikhail Vaskov (Skip), Alexey Tuzov, Alexey Kulikov   Alexey Tselousov, Evgeny Klimov, Alexey Timofeev, Artem Shmakov, Alexey Bystrov   Roman Kutuzov, Sergey Glukhov, Aleksandr Kozyrev, Dmitry Mironov

Women's champions edit

Year Winning team Runner up team Third place Fourth place Purse (USD)
2017[2]   Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Alexandra Raeva, Nkeirouka Ezekh, Alina Kovaleva   Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen, Elaine Jackson   Victoria Moiseeva, Uliana Vasilyeva, Galina Arsenkina, Julia Guzieva, Yulia Portunova   Alina Pätz, Nadine Lehmann, Marisa Winkelhausen, Nicole Schwägli $100,000
2019[3]   Eve Muirhead, Lauren Gray, Vicky Wright, Vicki Chalmers   Alina Kovaleva, Anastasia Bryzgalova, Galina Arsenkina, Ekaterina Kuzmina, Uliana Vasilyeva   Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Meilleur   Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Yulia Portunova, Julia Guzieva, Nkeirouka Ezekh $50,000

Mixed doubles champions edit

Year Winning pair Runner up pair Third place Fourth place Purse (USD)
2018[4]   Rachel Homan /   Niklas Edin   Gina Aitken / Duncan Menzies   Maria Komarova / Daniil Goriachev   Zuzana Hájková / Tomáš Paul $20,000
2020 Cancelled
2021[5]   Briar Hürlimann / Yannick Schwaller   Anna Samoylik / Mikhail Vaskov   Alina Kovaleva / Sergey Glukhov   Diana Gaspari / Joël Retornaz 20,000

Open event champions edit

Year Winning team Runner up team Third place Fourth place Purse (USD)
2022[6]   Sergey Glukhov, Evgeny Klimov, Dmitry Mironov, Anton Kalalb   Alexey Stukalskiy, Artur Ali, Petr Dron, Daniil Goriachev, Alexander Eremin   Alina Kovaleva, Yulia Portunova, Galina Arsenkina, Ekaterina Kuzmina, Maria Komarova   Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Nkeirouka Ezekh, Ekaterina Galkina

References edit

  1. ^ "Last year, Dudinka hosted its first curling event - Taimyr Cup 2016, with five Russian men's teams to compete with each other". Instagram. arctic_cup. April 9, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  2. ^ "CCT Arctic Cup". CurlingZone. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
  3. ^ "WCT Arctic Curling Cup finished in Dudinka, Russia". Arctic Cup. May 26, 2019. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
  4. ^ "Arctic Curling Cup 2018: Homan and Edin won the title". Arctic Cup. May 27, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
  5. ^ "Кубок Арктики отправляется в Швейцарию (Arctic Cup goes to Switzerland)" (in Russian). Arctic Cup. May 30, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
  6. ^ "Команда Сергея Глухова выиграла VI Nornickel Curling Cup (Sergey Glukhov's team won the VI Nornickel Curling Cup)" (in Russian). Arctic Cup. May 29, 2022. Retrieved June 23, 2022.

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