Winter Olympics: who are the big guns on China’s curling team for Beijing 2022?
- China has only ever won one Olympic medal in curling, with women’s team taking bronze at Vancouver 2010
- Zhang Lijun and Han Yu will lead the charge in Beijing for the women, with Ma Xiuyue and Xu Jingtao to lead the men
The sport has been dominated by Canada, Sweden, and Great Britain, who have won six, three, and two Olympic gold medals respectively.
Competition for curling got under way at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Wednesday night, with China’s mixed doubles curling team delighting fans following a dramatic 7-6 victory over Pyeongchang silver medallists Switzerland.
Early Thursday morning China’s duo of Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi recorded their second win, defeating Australia 6-5 during the second session. They will now meet Sweden at the National Aquatics Centre at around 8pm Thursday night.
China took up curling roughly a decade after its introduction, with the Chinese curling team debuting at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. There, the Chinese women’s curling team won a bronze medal – the only medal in the history of Chinese curling.
