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2009 WORLD WOMEN GOLD-MEDAL GAME Sweden (Anette Norberg) China (Bingyu Wang) * Last-rock advantage
010 010 202 0 *100 202 020 1
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PERCENTAGES Sweden Anette Norberg Eva Lund Cathrine Lindahl Margaret Sigfridsson
88% 76% 85% 88%
Team totals
84%
China Bingyu Wang Yin Liu Qingshuang Yue Yan Zhou
84% 81% 81% 90% 84%
BRONZE-MEDAL GAME Denmark (Angelina Jensen) Canada (Jennifer Jones)
*101 030 100 1 010 101 021 0
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022 000 200 1 *100 210 020 0
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*100 100 300 1 001 010 001 0
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SEMI-FINAL Sweden (Anette Norberg) Denmark (Angelina Jensen)
PAGE SYSTEM 1-2 PLAYOFF China (Bingyu Wang) Denmark (Angelina Jensen)
PAGE SYSTEM 3-4 PLAYOFF Sweden (Anette Norberg) Canada (Jennifer Jones)
000 001 012 0 1 *010 010 100 1 0
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FINAL STANDINGS Playoffs China (Bingyu Wang) Sweden (Anette Norberg) Denmark (Angelina Jensen) Canada (Jennifer Jones)
Wins 2 2 1 0
Losses 0 1 2 2
Round robin China (Bingyu Wang) Denmark (Angelina Jensen) Canada (Jennifer Jones) Sweden (Anette Norberg) Switzerland (Mirjam Ott) Germany (Andrea Schöpp) Russia (Liudmila Privivkova) Scotland (Eve Muirhead) United States (Debbie McCormick) Korea (Mi-Yeon Kim) Norway (Marianne Rørvik) Italy (Diana Gaspari)
Wins 10 9 9 7 6 6 5 5 4 3 1 1
Losses 1 2 2 4 5 5 6 6 7 8 10 10
just didn’t curl enough. It’s disappointing, hugely disappointing, but hopefully we’ll be back here again.” Jones dropped a 5-4 extra-end decision to Norberg in the Page 3-4 playoff game. The Canadians held a 3-2 lead through eight ends but gave up a crucial steal of two in the ninth when Jones’s last-rock draw wrecked on a guard. Jones then settled for one in the 10th end to force the extra, and in the 11th Norberg made a draw to backing in the four-foot for the victory and a berth in the semi-final.
China’s Qingshuang Yue, left, and Yan Zhou keep the path of their skip’s final rock clean en route to a double takeout and an historic championship win over two-time world champion Anette Norberg of Sweden.
In that affair, Sweden stole a third-end deuce for a 4-1 lead and refused to relinquish control, defeating Denmark 7-6. The Danes had earlier dropped a 6-3 decision to the Chinese in the Page 1-2 playoff, leading directly to the final. Canada won its initial outing 11-5 over China before Wang and Co. won 10 straight to top the round-robin Sweden’s Anette Norberg upended Canada 5-4 in segment of the the Page 3-4 playoff and Denmark 7-6 in the competition. semi-final to advance to the gold-medal match. Jones completed her round-robin schedule with a 10-7 triumph over Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott to post a 9-2 record, tied with Denmark. But Denmark finished second by virtue of its round-robin win over Canada and a last-round 9-3 conquest of former champion Debbie McCormick of the United States. That left Canada ranked third for playoff purposes. Sweden grabbed the No. 4 berth with a 7-4 record. www.seasonofchampions.ca 45