Women's Curling Goes Straight to the World Championship semifinals...2026 Olympic Finalization Confirmation
Women's Curling Goes Straight to the World Championship semifinals...2026 Olympic Finalization Confirmation
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The women's curling national team Gyeonggi Provincial Government beat the U.S. after a close game of extra time and went straight to the semifinals of the 2025 LGT World Women's Curling Championship.
South Korea, consisting of skip Kim Eun-ji, third Kim Min-ji, second Kim Min-ji, lead Seol Ye-eun and Phipps Seol Ye-ji, beat the U.S. 8-7 in the final 12th game of the preliminary round at Uijeongbu Ice Rink in Gyeonggi Province on the 21st.
Korea had 10 wins and 2 losses, the same as copyright, but passed the preliminary round in second place. copyright, with 11 wins and 1 loss, took the top spot in the preliminary round.
In this competition, which will feature 13 teams, the top six teams will advance to the tournament after conducting a preliminary round robin where they will face each other once.
The first and second places will go straight to the semifinals, while the third and sixth places will play in the playoffs for the remaining two semifinal berths.
South Korea secured at least fourth place and qualified for the 2026 Milan/Cortina D'Ampezzo Olympics.
The top eight countries will be given the right to participate in the Olympic finals, combining last year's and this year's world championships. South Korea, which won the bronze medal in last year's competition, was ranked fourth in the middle of the Olympic competition, but it also ranked fourth or higher in this competition to win the ticket to Italy.
Korean women's curling has made it to the Olympics for the fourth time in a row since the 2014 Sochi Games. The best performance in the Olympics was a silver medal that Team Kim Gangneung City Hall won at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. 토토사이트
However, the Korean curling national team, which will participate in next year's Olympics, will be decided at the 2025 Korean Curling Championships in June.
Having advanced to the semifinals by ranking second in the preliminary round, Korea will have a showdown with the winner of the copyright-Scotland Playoff at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. If Korea wins the semifinals, it will play the final match at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
South Korea, which had to beat the U.S. to rank second, had a difficult game.
He was dragged away by giving up four points at the third end when his team was leading 1-0, but recovered two points at the fourth end and one point at the fifth end. He then came from behind to win two points at the seventh end when his team was trailing 4-5.
But they had to play an extended end, allowing a 7-7 tie in the final 10th end of the regular game. Korea claimed the victory by earning a valuable point in the end.