CHAMPIONSHIPS //
USA women fi nish fourth in Latvia
2013 World Women's Championship
Riga, Latvia • March 16-24
Gold: Scotland Silver: Sweden Bronze: Canada
Round robin results:
Sweden Scotland Canada USA
Switzerland Russia Japan
Denmark China Italy
Germany Latvia
Playoff scores:
Gold medal: Scotland 6, Sweden 5 Bronze medal: Canada, 8, USA 6 Semifi nal: Scotland 8, Canada 7
Page 1-2 playoff game: Sweden 7, Scotland 5 Page 3-4 playoff game: Canada 7, USA 6 Tiebreaker 2: USA 7, Switzerland 4
Tiebreaker 1: Switzerland 7, Russia 6 (extra end) USA game results: USA 10, Italy 3
Team USA members (l-r) Erika Brown, Debbie McCormick, Ann Swisshelm, and Sarah Anderson. U.S. qualifi ed for 2014 Olympic Games in women's division
dium at the 2013 Titlis Glacier Mountain World Women’s Curling Championship held March 16- 24 in Riga, Latvia. Erika Brown and Team USA fell behind Cana-
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da’s Rachel Homan rink and couldn’t rally in the second half at the Volvo Sports Center. “We weren’t as sharp. Just some half shots
here and there when we really needed to put the pressure on them and make their shots a little bit tougher and we weren’t able to do that today,” Brown said aſt er the loss. “T ey played great. T ey played really well today, and we needed a few more really big shots.” Brown (Oakville, Ontario) and teammates
Debbie McCormick (Rio, Wis.), Jessica Schultz (Richfi eld, Minn.), Ann Swisshelm (Chicago), and Sarah Anderson (Broomall, Pa.) fi nished fourth and qualifi ed the U.S. for the 2014 Olym- pic Winter Games next February in Sochi, Russia. USA’s Olympic team will be determined this fall at the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Fargo,
he bronze medal just wasn’t meant to be won by Team USA as Canada defeat- ed the Americans, 8-6, to reach the po-
N.D. T e fi eld for the Trials will include Brown’s team as they qualifi ed by winning the 2013 Na- tional Championships. “I think overall we’re pretty pleased with the
way we fought our way into the playoff s, in gen- eral. We had games where we stuck it out, in the [Page] 3-4 game and this game, but I think we know that we can do better than where we are right now,” said Brown, a native of Madison, Wis., who has won seven U.S. women’s nation- al titles and two world championship medals. “We’re pleased we fi nished as high as we did, but we’re disappointed and know we can play better. We’ve got big things to look forward to this fall and hopefully, next February. I think it just mo- tivates us.” T e U.S. ladies fi nished with a fi nal record of
7-7. T ey were coached by Bill Todhunter (Oak- land Park, Fla.) and Derek Brown (Scotland). Scotland went on to win its second women's
world title as Eve Muirhead's rink defeated Swe- den, 6-5, to capture the gold medal. Germany's Corinna Scholz was the recipient of the Frances Brodie Sportsmanship Award from her peers. ■
1 2 3 4 5
6** 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14
15*
Germany 6, USA 5 Sweden 9, USA 8 USA 7, Denmark 6
USA 5, Canada 4 (extra end) Switzerland 7, USA 6 USA 10, Japan 3 USA 9, Latvia 2 China 9, USA 5
Scotland 8, USA 4 USA 6, Russia 5 (extra end)
Sportsmanship Award recipient: Corinna Scholz, Germany
Rank Member Assoc.
Sweden Switzerland
Scotland (GB) Canada USA
Russia
Denmark Korea
Germany Japan China Italy
Latvia
Czech Rep. Norway
Olympic Qualifi cation Points Standings: 2012
2013
12 14 7
10 8 4 5 9 6 0 2 3 0 1 0
12 8
14 10 9 7 5 0 2 6 4 3 1 0 0
24 22 21 20 17 11 10 9 8 6 6 6 1 1 0
*Norway competed in 2011 Worlds **Host, automatic berth Top 7 + Russia as host qualify to 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Rest of the associations are eligible to compete in the 2014 Olympic Qualifi cation Event, Dec. 11-15, in Fussen, Germany, where the fi nal two berths will be awarded.
USA Curling (( 23
Olympic points
10-1 10-1 8-3 6-5 6-5 6-5 5-6 4-7 4-7 3-8 3-8
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