Liu Yin (curler)

Liu Yin
柳荫
Curler
Born (1981-08-19) August 19, 1981
Harbin, Heilongjiang
Team
Curling club Harbin CC,
Harbin, Heilongjiang
Skip Wang Bingyu
Third Liu Yin
Second Yue Qingshuang
Lead Zhou Yan
Alternate Liu Jinli
Career
World Championship
appearances		 8 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013)
Pacific Championship
appearances		 9 (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012)
Grand Slam victories 1 (Autumn Gold: 2010)
Medal record
Curling
Representing  China
Winter Olympics
2010 Vancouver
World Championships
2009 Gangneung
2008 Vernon
2011 Esbjerg
Pacific-Asia Championships
2006 Tokyo
2007 Beijing
2008 Naseby
2009 Karuizawa
2012 Naseby
2004 Chuncheon
2005 Taipei
2010 Uiseong
Asian Winter Games
2003 Aomori
2007 Changchun
Winter Universiade
2009 Harbin
New Zealand Winter Games
2009 Naseby

Liu Yin (simplified Chinese: 柳荫; traditional Chinese: 柳蔭; pinyin: Liǔ Yìn; born August 19, 1981 in Harbin, Heilongjiang; usually referred to in the media as Yin Liu) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. She plays third on the Chinese national team, skipped by Wang Bingyu.

Liu has played internationally for China since 2002, when she was an alternate on the team at the Pacific Curling Championships when she had only been curling for two years.

In 2004, she was a full member of the team. She played third for the team at the 2004 Pacific Championships, and then second at the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship- her first. The team finished 7th. The following season, Liu was playing lead for the team for the Pacific Championships, and then she played third once again at the 2006 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, where the team finished 5th.

For the 2006–07 season, Liu threw last rocks for the team while Wang held the broom as skip. The season included their first Pacific Championship, an Asian Winter Games bronze medal and a disappointing 7th-place finish at the 2007 World Women's Curling Championship.

At the 2007 Pacific Championships, Liu was back throwing second stones when the team won their second Pacific Championship. She was promoted to the third position for the 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in which she earned a silver medal- China's first medal at a World Championship. Since then, Liu has played third for the team. She won her third Pacific Championship in 2008, which was followed by a gold medal at the 2009 Winter Universiade and, most importantly, by a World Championship gold medal at the 2009 Mount Titlis World Women's Curling Championship.

Liu Yin competed for Team China at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] Her team qualified for the playoffs. In the Semifinal match they lost to eventual Gold medalists Team Sweden. In the Bronze medal match they faced Team Switzerland skipped by Torino Silver medalist Mirjam Ott. They Chinese pulled off a 12 -6 victory and became the first curling team from an Asian nation to win an Olympic medal.

Teammates

2009 Gangneung World Championships

2010 Vancouver Olympic Games

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
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