2008 World Junior Curling Championships

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The 2008 World Junior Curling Championships was held from 1 March 2008 to 9 March 2008 in Östersund, Sweden.

1 Teams
2 Men's
- 2.1 Playoffs
3 Women's
4 European Junior Curling Challenge
- 4.1 Men's Rankings
5 Pacific Junior Curling Championships
- 5.1 Men's Rankings
6 External Links
7 See also

[edit] Teams

Teams qualify either on last years performance or on a regional qualifier.

	Men's Teams	Women's Teams
1	Sweden (Oskar Eriksson, Henric Jonsson, Marcus Franzén, Nils Karlsson)	Sweden (Cecilia Östlund, Sara Carlsson, Anna Domeij, Lotta Lennartsson)
2	Canada (William Dion, Jean-Michel Arsenault, Erik Lachance, Miguel Bernard)	Canada (Kaitlyn Lawes, Jenna Loder, Liz Peters, Sarah Wazney)
3	Switzerland (Manuel Ruch, Claudio Pätz, Daniel Graf, Joel Greiner)	Scotland (Eve Muirhead, Kerry Barr, Vicki Adams, Sarah MacIntyre)
4	Denmark (Rasmus Stjerne Hansen, Mikkel Munch Krause, Oliver Dupont, Troels Harry)	Denmark (Madeleine Dupont, Jeanne Ellegaard, Mona Sylvest Nielsen, Lisa Sylvest Nielsen)
5	Scotland (Glen Muirhead, Scott MacLeod, Scott Andrews, Gordon McDougall)	Switzerland (Michèle Jäggi, Marisa Winkelhausen, Nicole Schwagli, Isabel Kurt)
6	Norway (Kristian Rolvsfjord, Steffen Walstad, Steffen R. Mellemseter, Markus Snöve Höiberg)	Norway (Anneline Skårsmoen, Kjersti Husby, Rita Nerlien, Hanne Munkvold)
7	Germany (Daniel Neuner, Florian Zahler, Johannes Glaser, Dominik Greindl)	Russia (Ludmila Privivkova, Margarita Fomina, Daria Kozlova, Ekaterina Galkina)
8	Czech Republic (Krystof Chaloupek, Michal Vojtus, Martin Hejhal, David Jirounek)	Germany (Frederike Templin, Pia-Lisa Schöll, Ann Kathrin Bastian, Simone Ackermann)
9	China (Zang Jialiang, Wang Zi, Yang Tuo, Chen Luan)	Japan (Satsuki Fujisawa, Shiori Fujisawa, Yui Okabe, Madoka Shinoo)
10	United States (Chris Plys, Aanders Brorson, Matthew Perushek, Matthew Hamilton)	United States (Nina Spatola, Rebecca Hamilton, Anna Plys, Jenna Haag)

[edit] Men's

Country	Wins	Losses
Canada	7	2
Sweden	7	2
United States	7	2
Norway	5	4
Switzerland	5	4
Germany	4	5
Denmark	4	5
China	3	6
Scotland	2	7
Czech Republic	1	8

Tie breaker: Norway 9-6 Switzerland

[edit] Playoffs

Page playoff system			Semifinal			Final

1	Canada	6
2	Sweden	9				2	Sweden	5
			1	Canada	6	3	United States	7
			3	United States	8
3	United States	7
4	Norway	3

Bronze

1	Canada	5
4	Norway	3

[edit] Women's

Country	Wins	Losses
Sweden	7	2
Scotland	7	2
Russia	6	3
Canada	5	4
Denmark	5	4
Switzerland	4	5
Japan	3	6
United States	3	6
Norway	3	6
Germany	2	7

Tie-breaker: Canada 10-7 Denmark

Page playoff system			Semifinal			Final

1	Sweden	8
2	Scotland	2				1	Sweden	3
			2	Scotland	7	2	Scotland	12
			3	Russia	6
3	Russia	7
4	Canada	5

Bronze

3	Russia	8
4	Canada	9

[edit] European Junior Curling Challenge

The European Qualification takes place via a challenge tournament this year in Prague, Czech Republic. 8 women's teams and 12 men's teams will compete for 1 spot to the WJCC.

[edit] Men's Rankings

Rank(MA)	Team	W	L
1	Czech Republic	4	0
2	France	3	1
3	Spain	2	2
4	Belgium	1	3
5	Finland	1	3
6	Latvia	1	3

Rank(MB)	Team	W	L
1	Italy	3	1
2	Poland	3	1
3	Netherlands	2	2
4	Estonia	2	2
5	Russia	2	2
6	Slovakia	0	4

[edit] Pacific Junior Curling Championships

Played between 16-20 Jan-2008 in Jeonju, Korea. The format saw a double round-robin with the top 3 making the medal round. First got a bye to the Final and 2nd and 3rd played in a single semi-final.