2009 World Cup of Curling

2009 Grey Power
World Cup of Curling
Host city Mississauga, Ontario
Arena Hershey Centre
Dates October 21-25
Attendance 41,701
Winner Canada Team Howard
Curling club Coldwater & District CC,
Coldwater, Ontario
Skip Glenn Howard
Third Richard Hart
Second Brent Laing
Lead Craig Savill
Finalist Canada Team Koe

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.

Previously, this event was known as the Masters of Curling, but in 2009 it was changed to the World Cup of Curling . The 2009 event will have a majority of its teams from outside of Canada. The event will feature one team from every country that will send a team to the men's Olympic event, except Canada, which will have five teams (the four teams that have 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" will be held. This small event will feature 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.

Team W L PF PA
United Kingdom Muirhead 3 1 25 14
Canada Lawton 2 2 23 23
China Wang 2 2 20 25
Canada Kleibrink 1 3 20 36

World Cup teams

Skip Third Second Lead Home city
Thomas Dufour Tony Angiboust Richard Ducroz Jan Henri Ducroz France Chamonix
Niklas Edin Sebastian Kraupp Fredrik Lindberg Viktor Kjäll Sweden Karlstad
Randy Ferbey David Nedohin* Scott Pfeifer Marcel Rocque Canada Edmonton
Brad Gushue Mark Nichols Ryan Fry Jamie Korab Canada St. John's
Glenn Howard Richard Hart Brent Laing Craig Savill Canada Coldwater
Andy Kapp Andreas Lang Holger Höhne Andreas Kempf Germany Füssen
Kevin Koe Blake MacDonald Carter Rycroft Nolan Thiessen Canada Edmonton
Liu Rui Wang Fengchun* Xu Xiaoming Li Hongchen China Harbin
Kevin Martin John Morris Marc Kennedy Ben Hebert Canada Edmonton
David Murdoch Ewan MacDonald Peter Smith Euan Byers United Kingdom Lockerbie
Ulrik Schmidt Johnny Frederiksen* Bo Jensen Lars Vilandt Denmark Copenhagen
John Shuster Jason Smith Jeff Isaacson John Benton United States Duluth
Ralph Stöckli Jan Hauser Simon Strübin Markus Eggler Switzerland Basel
Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Havard Vad Petersson Norway Oslo

* Throws last rocks

Draw

Pool A

Team W L PF PA
Canada Martin 6 0 43 20
Norway Ulsrud 4 2 33 22
Canada Koe 4 2 38 35
Sweden Edin 4 2 29 33
Canada Ferbey 2 4 26 34
China Wang 1 5 24 32
France Dufour 0 6 22 38

Scores:

Pool B

Team W L PF PA
Canada Howard 6 0 44 22
Denmark Schmidt 4 2 34 34
Germany Kapp 3 3 30 23
Canada Gushue 3 3 26 26
United States Shuster 2 4 21 31
Switzerland Stöckli 2 4 31 32
United Kingdom Murdoch 1 5 20 38

Scores:

Playoffs

  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                           
   Canada Martin 2  
 Canada Gushue 8  
   Canada Gushue 4  
   Canada Koe 6  
 Canada Koe 7
   Sweden Edin 2  
     Canada Koe 4
   Canada Howard 6
   Canada Howard 8  
 Germany Kapp 5  
   Canada Howard 5
   Norway Ulsrud 4  
 Norway Ulsrud 8
   Denmark Schmidt 2  

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