2009 World Cup of Curling

Grand Slam of Curling event 2009 Grey Power World Cup of Curling Gpwcc09.gif 200 Mississauga, Ontario Hershey Centre October 21–25 CAN Team Howard Coldwater & District CC, Coldwater, Ontario Glenn Howard Richard Hart Brent Laing Craig Savill CAN Team Koe 41,701 The 2009 Grey Power World Cup of Curling was held October 21–25 at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. The 2009 World Cup was the first Grand Slam event of the 2009-10 curling season. It was the first Grand Slam to be held in the Greater Toronto Area. This event is normally known as the Masters of Curling, but in 2009 it was changed to the World Cup of Curling . The 2009 event had a majority of its teams from outside of Canada. The event featured one team from every country that sent a team to the men's Olympic event, except Canada, which had five teams (the four teams that had already qualified for the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials plus defending Olympic champions, team Brad Gushue. The total purse of the event was $100,000, with the Howard rink winning $24,000 of that. For the third event in a row, Howard faced off against Koe in the final. Howard defended his previous three titles by winning his fourth straight event, and his eighth Grand Slam title. Koe has yet to win a title, having now lost six Grand Slam finals. Three Nations Cup In addition to the World Cup, which is a men's event, a women's "Three Nations Cup" was held. This small event featured teams Shannon Kleibrink and Stefanie Lawton of Canada as well as Wang Bingyu of China and Eve Muirhead of Great Britain. Many of the top women's teams however could not participate, as they were playing in the 2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic. The event was a round robin event, which was won by Great Britain's Eve Muirhead. TeamWLPFPAGBR Muirhead 3 1 25 14CAN Lawton 2 2 23 23CHN Wang 2 2 20 25 CAN Kleibrink 1 3 20 36 World Cup teams SkipThirdSecondLeadHome cityThomas Dufour Tony Angiboust Richard Ducroz Jan Henri Ducroz FRA ChamonixNiklas Edin Sebastian Kraupp Fredrik Lindberg Viktor Kjäll SWE Karlstad David Nedohin (fourth) Randy Ferbey (skip) Scott Pfeifer Marcel Rocque CAN EdmontonBrad Gushue Mark Nichols Ryan Fry Jamie Korab CAN St. John'sGlenn Howard Richard Hart Brent Laing Craig Savill CAN ColdwaterAndy Kapp Andreas Lang Holger Höhne Andreas Kempf GER FüssenKevin Koe Blake MacDonald Carter Rycroft Nolan Thiessen CAN EdmontonWang Fengchun (fourth) Liu Rui (skip) Xu Xiaoming Li Hongchen CHN HarbinKevin Martin John Morris Marc Kennedy Ben Hebert CAN EdmontonDavid Murdoch Ewan MacDonald Peter Smith Euan Byers GBR LockerbieJohnny Frederiksen (fourth) Ulrik Schmidt (skip) Bo Jensen Lars Vilandt DEN CopenhagenJohn Shuster Jason Smith Jeff Isaacson John Benton USA DuluthRalph Stöckli Jan Hauser Simon Strübin Markus Eggler SUI BaselThomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Havard Vad Petersson NOR Oslo Draw Pool A TeamWLPFPACAN Martin 6 0 43 20NOR Ulsrud 4 2 33 22 CAN Koe 4 2 38 35SWE Edin 4 2 29 33 CAN Ferbey 2 4 26 34CHN Wang 1 5 24 32 FRA Dufour 0 6 22 38 Scores: Martin 9-1 Edin Ferbey 4-2 Wang Koe 7-4 Dufour Martin 6-3 Dufour Ulsrud 8-2 Edin Koe 6-4 Ulsrud Edin 8-3 Ferbey Martin 8-4 Wang Wang 8-5 Dufour Koe 7-6 Ferbey (9) Edin 5-3 Dufour Martin 5-4 Ulsrud (9) Koe 6-4 Wang Ulsrud 7-4 Ferbey Martin 9-5 Koe Ferbey 6-4 Dufour Edin 5-4 Wang (9) Ulsrud 6-3 Dufour Martin 6-3 Ferbey Ulsrud 4-2 Wang Edin 8-6 Koe Pool B TeamWLPFPACAN Howard 6 0 44 22DEN Schmidt 4 2 34 34GER Kapp 3 3 30 23CAN Gushue 3 3 26 26USA Shuster 2 4 21 31SUI Stöckli 2 4 31 32GBR Murdoch 1 5 20 38 Scores: Howard 9-5 Kapp Shuster 4-3 Gushue Kapp 7–1 Gushue Stöckli 8-4 Murdoch Howard 9-3 Schmidt Kapp 8–0 Shuster Gushue 6-5 Stöckli (9) Schmidt 5-3 Shuster Howard 8-3 Murdoch Howard 4-1 Gushue Stöckli 4-1 Kapp Schmidt 8-3 Murdoch Schmidt 6-5 Kapp (9) Shuster 5-4 Stöckli Gushue 6-2 Murdoch Howard 6-5 Shuster (9) Howard 8-5 Stöckli Kapp 4–3 Murdoch Gushue 9-4 Schmidt Schmidt 8-5 Stöckli Murdoch 5-4 Shuster Playoffs Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals CAN Martin 2 CAN Gushue 8 CAN Koe 7 SWE Edin 2 CAN Howard 8 GER Kapp 5 NOR Ulsrud 8 DEN Schmidt 2 CAN Gushue 4 CAN Koe 6 CAN Howard 5 NOR Ulsrud 4 CAN Koe 4 CAN Howard 6 External links Event website World Curling Tour event site Category:Masters (curling) Category:Sports competitions in Mississauga Category:Curling competitions in Ontario Category:2009 in Canadian curling Category:2009 in sports in Ontario