Curling 2022/Women's tournament

Women's tournament
General information
Sport	Curling 2022
Date	10-20 February 2022
Competitors	10 teams
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Sweden
Silver	South Korea
Bronze	Japan
Medalists
	Great Britain
	Japan
	Sweden

The women's tournament of Curling 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 10-20 February 2022 in the Beijing National Aquatics Centre. With 10 teams competing, the event was won by the team from Great Britain, with Japan taking the silver medal and Sweden taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of a single round-robin, each team playing another once, with standings based on win/loss-record. The top four ranked teams advance to the semifinals, with the winners advancing to the final. The winner of the final wins the event.

Preview

Ten teams qualified for the event with quite a few medal contenders in the field. Sweden was the defending Olympic champion and one of the big contenders for the medals, though lost out on the medals at the most recent world championships. Switzerland and ROC contested the final in 2021 and would go into the Olympic competition as the top seeds. The United States and Canada were traditionally strong in the event, while surprise silver medalists South Korea and Japan also returned to the Olympic stage. Great Britain and China completed the field.

Han Yu was the youngest athlete to compete in the women's curling at the age of 21, eight months younger than Jasmin Lander, and followed by other Danish and Chinese competitors Mathilde Halse, Dong Ziqi, and My Larsen. On the other end of the scale, Jennifer Jones competed at her second Olympic Games at the age of 47, and was almost five years older than Kotomi Ishizaki, who had made her Olympic debut back in 2002, and Silvana Tirinzoni, who also competed in 2018. Denise Dupont and Eve Muirhead competed at the Olympic Games for the fifth time, with Dupont having finished eighth in 2006, and Muirhead crowning her Olympic debut with a seventh place. Kaitlyn Lawes, Madeleine Dupont, Chinami Yoshida, Kotomi Ishizaki, and Agnes Knochenhauer all competed for the third time, with sixteen out of fifty athletes making their Olympic debuts. Many of the defending medalists competed once again, with the team from South Korea even staying fully intact in four years. The defending champions from Sweden had one switch with Johanna Heldin competing instead of Jennie Waahlin, while Japan had Ishizaki return in the place of Mari Motohashi.

Summary

Round robin

Round 1

Round 1 Results
	Result	Result
Great Britain	5	6EE	Switzerland
Denmark	7	6	China
Sweden	8	5	Japan
ROC	3	9	United States

Standings after Round 1

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Denmark	1	1	0
	Sweden	1	1	0
	Switzerland	1	1	0
	United States	1	1	0
5	Canada	0	0	0
	South Korea	0	0	0
7	China	1	0	1
	Great Britain	1	0	1
	Japan	1	0	1
	ROC	1	0	1

Round 2

Round 2 Results
	Result	Result
Canada	12	7	South Korea
Sweden	2	8	Great Britain
United States	7	5	Denmark
China	5	7	Switzerland

Standings after Round 2

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	2	2	0
	United States	2	2	0
3	Canada	1	1	0
4	Denmark	2	1	1
	Great Britain	2	1	1
	Sweden	2	1	1
7	Japan	1	0	1
	ROC	1	0	1
	South Korea	1	0	1
10	China	2	0	2

Round 3

Round 3 Results
	Result	Result
United States	8	4	China
Canada	5	8	Japan
Switzerland	8	7	ROC
South Korea	9	7	Great Britain

Standings after Round 3

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	3	3	0
	United States	3	3	0
3	Canada	2	1	1
	Denmark	2	1	1
	Japan	2	1	1
	South Korea	2	1	1
	Sweden	2	1	1
8	Great Britain	3	1	2
9	ROC	2	0	2
10	China	3	0	3

Round 4

Round 4 Results
	Result	Result
Sweden	7	6	Canada
South Korea	9	5	ROC
Japan	8	7	Denmark

Standings after Round 4

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	3	3	0
	United States	3	3	0
3	Japan	3	2	1
	South Korea	3	2	1
	Sweden	3	2	1
6	Canada	3	1	2
	Denmark	3	1	2
	Great Britain	3	1	2
9	China	3	0	3
	ROC	3	0	3

Round 5

Round 5 Results
	Result	Result
ROC	5	10	Japan
Denmark	5	8	Switzerland
Great Britain	10	5	United States
Sweden	6	9	China

Standings after Round 5

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	4	4	0
2	Japan	4	3	1
	United States	4	3	1
4	South Korea	3	2	1
5	Great Britain	4	2	2
	Sweden	4	2	2
7	Canada	3	1	2
8	China	4	1	3
	Denmark	4	1	3
10	ROC	4	0	4

Round 6

Round 6 Results
	Result	Result
Denmark	2	7	Great Britain
United States	4	10	Sweden
South Korea	5	6EE	China
Switzerland	8	4	Canada

Standings after Round 6

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	5	5	0
2	Japan	4	3	1
3	Great Britain	5	3	2
	Sweden	5	3	2
	United States	5	3	2
6	South Korea	4	2	2
7	China	5	2	3
8	Canada	4	1	3
9	Denmark	5	1	4
10	ROC	4	0	4

Round 7

Round 7 Results
	Result	Result
China	2	10	Japan
Canada	11	5	ROC
United States	8	6	South Korea

Standings after Round 7

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	5	5	0
2	Japan	5	4	1
3	United States	6	4	2
4	Great Britain	5	3	2
	Sweden	5	3	2
	6	Canada	5	2	3
		South Korea	5	2	3
8	China	6	2	4
9	Denmark	5	1	4
10	ROC	5	0	5

Round 8

Round 8 Results
	Result	Result
Switzerland	5	6EE	Sweden
Great Britain	3	7	Canada
Japan	5	10	South Korea
Denmark	10	5	ROC

Standings after Round 8

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	6	5	1
2	Japan	6	4	2
	Sweden	6	4	2
	United States	6	4	2
5	Canada	6	3	3
	Great Britain	6	3	3
	South Korea	6	3	3
8	China	6	2	4
	Denmark	6	2	4
10	ROC	6	0	6

Round 9

Round 9 Results
	Result	Result
China	5	11	ROC
Sweden	9	3	Denmark
United States	6	9	Switzerland
Great Britain	10	4	Japan

Standings after Round 9

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	7	6	1
2	Sweden	7	5	2
3	Great Britain	7	4	3
	Japan	7	4	3
	United States	7	4	3
6	Canada	6	3	3
	South Korea	6	3	3
	8	China	7	2	5
Denmark		7	2	5
10	ROC	7	1	6

Round 10

Round 10 Results
	Result	Result
Canada	7	6	United States
Switzerland	8	4	South Korea
China	8	4	Great Britain

Standings after Round 10

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	8	7	1	Q
2	Sweden	7	5	2
4	Canada	7	4	3
	Japan	7	4	3
6	Great Britain	8	4	4
	United States	8	4	4
7	South Korea	7	3	4
8	China	8	3	5
	Denmark	7	2	5
10	ROC	7	1	6

Round 11

Round 11 Results
	Result	Result
South Korea	8	7	Denmark
Japan	10	7	United States
ROC	5	8	Sweden
Canada	9	11EE	China

Standings after Round 11

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	8	7	1	Q
2	Sweden	8	6	2	Q
3	Japan	8	5	3
4	Canada	8	4	4
	Great Britain	8	4	4
	South Korea	8	4	4
7	China	9	4	5
	United States	9	4	5
9	Denmark	8	2	6
10	ROC	8	1	7

Round 12

Round 12 Results
	Result	Result
Japan	4	8	Switzerland
ROC	4	9	Great Britain
Denmark	4	10	Canada
South Korea	4	8	Sweden

Standings after Round 12

Rank	Nation	Played	Won	Lost	Info
1	Switzerland	9	8	1	Q
2	Sweden	9	7	2	Q
3	Great Britain	9	5	4	Q
4	Japan	9	5	4	Q
5	Canada	9	5	4
6	United States	9	4	5
7	China	9	4	5
8	South Korea	9	4	5
9	Denmark	9	2	7
10	ROC	9	1	8

Semifinals

Semifinals
	Result	Result
Japan	8	6	Switzerland
Sweden	11	12EE	Great Britain

Finals

Final
	Result	Result
Japan	3	10	Great Britain

Bronze medal match
	Result	Result
Sweden	9	7	Switzerland

Results

Great Britain won their first gold medal in women's curling since winning gold in 2002, though the nation also secured bronze in 2014 with a team that also included Eve Muirhead. Japan took their second medal in a row and second Olympic medal in curling ever, after winning bronze in 2018 went one step higher to reach the final this time, leaving defending champions Sweden with bronze. Switzerland just lost out on the medals after being defeated by Sweden in the game for bronze, leaving 2006 as the last medal in women's curling for the nation. 2014 Olympic champions Canada just missed out on the semifinals after dividing the teams on tiebreaks.

Rank	Nation
	Great Britain
	Japan
	Sweden
4	Switzerland
5	Canada
6	United States
7	China
8	South Korea
9	Denmark
10	ROC