2002 Continental Cup of Curling
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The Keg 2002 Continental Cup of Curling
was held at the Agridome in Regina, Saskatchewan
November 7-10. It was the very first edition of the event. North America defeated their European counterparts 207-193. Despite the fact that all the teams were from Europe, North America's opposition was known as Team World. Later events would name the team "Team Europe" until 2008, when "Team World" was re-adopted after the inclusion of Chinese teams.
, Carmen Küng
, Tanya Frei
, Nadia Röthlisberger Elisabet Gustafson
, Katarina Nyberg
, Louise Marmont
, Elisabeth Persson
Peja Lindholm
, Tomas Nordin
, Magnus Swartling
, Peter Narup
Hammy McMillan
, Norman Brown, Hugh Aitken, Roger McIntyre Rhona Martin
, Debbie Knox, Fiona MacDonald
, Janice Rankin
Pål Trulsen
, Lars Vågberg
, Flemming Davanger
, Bent Ånund Ramsfjell
, Randy Ferbey
, Scott Pfeifer
, Marcel Rocque
Colleen Jones
, Kim Kelly
, Mary-Anne Waye
, Nancy Delahunt
Patti Lank
, Erika Brown
, Nicole Joraanstad
, Natalie Nicholson
Kelley Law
, Julie Skinner
, Georgina Wheatcroft
, Diane Dezura Kevin Martin
, Don Walchuk
, Carter Rycroft
, Don Bartlett
Paul Pustovar
, Mike Fraboni, Geoff Goodland, Richard Makel
World wins 24-12
North America wins 24-12
North America wins 24-12
World wins 24-8
North America wins 66-64
North America wins 73-57
North America wins aggregate 207-193
Continental Cup of Curling
The Continental Cup of Curling is a curling tournament held annually between teams from North America against teams from the rest of the world. Each side is represented by six teams , and compete using a unique points system. The tournament is modeled after golf's Ryder Cup...
was held at the Agridome in Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...
November 7-10. It was the very first edition of the event. North America defeated their European counterparts 207-193. Despite the fact that all the teams were from Europe, North America's opposition was known as Team World. Later events would name the team "Team Europe" until 2008, when "Team World" was re-adopted after the inclusion of Chinese teams.
World
Luzia EbnötherLuzia Ebnöther
Luzia Ebnöther, born , is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...
, Carmen Küng
Carmen Küng
Carmen Küng is an internationally elite curler from Solothurn, Switzerland.Carmen Küng began her senior elite career as the Third for 2002 Olympic Silver medalist Luzia Ebnöther during the 2006-2007 season...
, Tanya Frei
Tanya Frei
Tanya Frei is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...
, Nadia Röthlisberger Elisabet Gustafson
Elisabet Gustafson
Elisabet Gustafson is a retired Swedish curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano...
, Katarina Nyberg
Katarina Nyberg
Katarina Nyberg is a Swedish curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.-References:...
, Louise Marmont
Louise Marmont
Louise Marmont is a Swedish curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.-References:...
, Elisabeth Persson
Elisabeth Persson
Elisabeth Persson is a Swedish curler, world champion and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She is three times world champion with the Swedish team, from 1995, 1998 and 1999, with skip Elisabet Gustafson.-References:...
Peja Lindholm
Peja Lindholm
Peter "Peja" Rutger Lindholm is a Swedish curler. He is a three-time world champion skip, winning in 1997, 2001 and 2004. He is also a two-time European champion and a former world junior champion .Lindholm announced his retirement from curling following the 2007 European Curling Championships...
, Tomas Nordin
Tomas Nordin
Tomas Nordin is a Swedish curler and world champion.He won a gold medal in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, all three times with skip Peja Lindholm, and received silver medal in 1998 and 2000.He is European champion from 1998 and 2001 , and has received a total of seven...
, Magnus Swartling
Magnus Swartling
Magnus Swartling is a Swedish curler and world champion.He won a gold medal in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, all three times with skip Peja Lindholm, and received silver medals in 1998 and 2000.Swartling is European champion from 1998 and 2001 , and has received a total of...
, Peter Narup
Peter Narup
Peter Narup is a Swedish curler and world champion.He won gold medals in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, and received silver medals in 1998 and 2000, all times with skip Peja Lindholm....
Hammy McMillan
Hammy McMillan
Hammy McMillan is a Scottish curler and world champion. He won a gold medal as skip for the Scottish team at the 1999 Ford World Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick. He has received five gold medals at the European Curling Championships...
, Norman Brown, Hugh Aitken, Roger McIntyre Rhona Martin
Rhona Martin
Rhona Martin MBE is a Scottish curler who has skipped the Scotland women's team at both the European and World Championships, but is most famous as the skip of the Great Britain team that claimed the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 2002.-Early career:For a long time best known in...
, Debbie Knox, Fiona MacDonald
Fiona MacDonald
Fiona MacDonald is a Scottish curler and Olympic champion, born in Paisley. She received a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-References:...
, Janice Rankin
Janice Rankin
Janice Rankin MBE is a Scottish curler and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, with team mates Rhona Martin , Deborah Knox, Fiona MacDonald and Margaret Morton.-References:...
Pål Trulsen
Pål Trulsen
Pål Trulsen is a Norwegian curler from Hosle in Bærum, and was the 2002 Olympic curling men's champion....
, Lars Vågberg
Lars Vågberg
Lars Vågberg is a Norwegian curler from Bærum.Vågberg began his international curling career in Sweden. In his first international tournament, he was the second Mikael Hasselborg's 1990 European Curling Championships winning team...
, Flemming Davanger
Flemming Davanger
Flemming Davanger is a Norwegian curler from Bærum.In his third World Junior Curling Championships in 1983, Davanger, playing second Pål Trulsen's Norwegian team picked up a silver medal, losing to Canada's John Base in the final...
, Bent Ånund Ramsfjell
Bent Ånund Ramsfjell
Bent Ånund Ramsfjell is a Norwegian curler from Asker. He is the younger brother of Eigil Ramsfjell, multiple curling world champion and bronze medallist atthe 1998 Winter Olympics competition in Nagano....
North America
David NedohinDavid Nedohin
David Nedohin is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. He throws fourth rocks for the Randy Ferbey rink.-Curling career:...
, Randy Ferbey
Randy Ferbey
Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....
, Scott Pfeifer
Scott Pfeifer
Scott Pfeifer is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park who plays out of the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton....
, Marcel Rocque
Marcel Rocque
Marcel Rocque is a Canadian curler home to the city of Edmonton, Alberta. He is a four-time winner of The Brier, the annual Canadian men's curling championship and a three-time World Champion as the lead for the Randy Ferbey team...
Colleen Jones
Colleen Jones
Colleen P. Jones is a Canadian curler and television personality. She is best known as the skip of two women's world championship teams and six Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's championships, including an unprecedented four titles in a row...
, Kim Kelly
Kim Kelly (curler)
Kim Kelly is a Canadian curler, throwing second stones for Mary-Anne Arsenault's Nova Scotia rink...
, Mary-Anne Waye
Mary-Anne Arsenault
Mary-Anne Arsenault is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the long time second for Colleen Jones' team with whom she has won five Canadian championships, and two World Curling Championships...
, Nancy Delahunt
Nancy Delahunt
Nancy Delahunt is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Delahunt currently plays third for Colleen Jones. Delahunt was a longtime member of the Colleen Jones team which won five Scott Tournament of Hearts and two World Curling Championships...
Patti Lank
Patti Lank
Patti Lank is an American curler from Lewiston, New York.-Career:Patti Lank began curling at the age of eleven and competed at her first US National Championships in 1994 and her team placed fourth. She has since gone on to compete in fifteen National Championships. In March 2010 she will compete...
, Erika Brown
Erika Brown
Erika Brown is an American curler, currently residing in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She started curling in 1980 and throws right-handed....
, Nicole Joraanstad
Nicole Joraanstad
Nicole Joraanstad is an American curler from Madison, Wisconsin. She currently plays third for Allison Pottinger.At the 2000 World Junior Curling Championships, Joraanstad played third for Laura Delaney and won a bronze medal for team USA...
, Natalie Nicholson
Natalie Nicholson
Natalie Nicholson is an American curler. She currently plays second for Allison Pottinger....
Kelley Law
Kelley Law
Kelley Law formerly known as Kelley Atkins and Kelley Owen is a Canadian curler from Coquitlam, British Columbia...
, Julie Skinner
Julie Skinner
Julie Skinner is a Canadian curler and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....
, Georgina Wheatcroft
Georgina Wheatcroft
Georgina Wheatcroft is a Canadian curler.Wheatcroft made her Scott Tournament of Hearts debut in 1987 as a third for Pat Sanders. Wheatcroft's prior experience had been as a skip at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1985 for British Columbia...
, Diane Dezura Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin (curler)
Kevin Martin , nicknamed "The Old Bear" and "K-Mart", is a Canadian curler from Edmonton. He is a four-time Brier champion, has been to three Winter Olympics and is the gold medal winner in the 2010 Winter Olympics...
, Don Walchuk
Don Walchuk
Donald J. Walchuk is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. Until April 26, 2006, Walchuk played third for Kevin Martin's team.Walchuk joined up with Martin prior to the 1996 season...
, Carter Rycroft
Carter Rycroft
Carter Rycroft is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. He was a member of the Canadian Olympic team, skipped by Kevin Martin that won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics...
, Don Bartlett
Don Bartlett
Donald "Don" Bartlett is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta.Until April 26, 2006, Barlett played lead for Kevin Martin....
Paul Pustovar
Paul Pustovar
Paul Pustovar is an American curler from Hibbing, Minnesota. He is one of the most prolific curlers from the United States, with over thirty years of experience under his belt...
, Mike Fraboni, Geoff Goodland, Richard Makel
Mixed doubles
(Each game worth six points)- World (Vågberg/Ebnöther) 9-6 North America (Walchuk/Law)
- World (Nordin/Gustafson) 7-5 North America (Ferbey/Jones)
- World (Brown/R. Martin) 6-2 North America (Fraboni/Lank)
- World (Lindholm/Nyberg) 6-1 North America (K. Martin/Skinner)
- North America (Pustovar/E. Brown) 5-4 World (McMillan/Knox)
- North America (Nedohin/Kelly) 9-2 World (Trulsen/Küng)
World wins 24-12
Women's team
(Each game worth six points)- World (R. Martin) 9-2 North America (Law)
- North America (Lank) 8-4 World (Gustafson)
- North America (Jones) 5-2 World (Ebnöther)
- North America (Lank) 8-6 World (Ebnöther)
- North America (Jones) 5-4 World (Gustafson)
- World (R. Martin) 7-3 North America (Law)
North America wins 24-12
Men's team
(Each game worth six points)- North America (Pustovar) 8-4 World (McMillan)
- World (Lindholm) 8-4 North America (Ferbey)
- North America (K. Martin) 6-5 World (Trulsen)
- World (Lindholm) 7-6 North America (Pustovar)
- North America (Ferbey) 8-3 World (Trulsen)
- North America (K. Martin) 4-2 World (McMillan)
North America wins 24-12
Singles
(Each game worth two points, eight bonus points awarded to top aggregate score)- World (Nyberg) 24-12 North America (Waye)
- World (MacDonald) 17-14 North America (E. Brown)
- North America (Wheatcroft) 14-10 World (Frei)
- North America (Pfeifer) 22-19 World (Narup)
- North America (Goodland) 20-13 World (McIntyre)
- World (Ramsfjell) 16-15 North America (Walchuk)
- World (Knox) 17-11 North America (Jones)
- World (Küng) 19-15 North America (Lank)
- World (Gustafson) 20-15 North America (Law)
- North America (K. Martin) 27-13 World (Swartling)
- World (Aitken) 20-17 North America (Pustovar)
- World (Davanger) 22-21 North America (Nedohin)
World wins 24-8
Women's skins
(Each skin is worth one point)- World (Ebnöther) 30-0 North America (Law)
- North America (Lank) 25-15 World (R. Martin)
- North America (Jones) 41-19 World (Gustafson)
North America wins 66-64
Men's skins
(Each skin is worth one point)- World (McMillan) 30-0 North America (Pustovar)
- North America (Ferbey) 30-10 World (Trulsen)
- North America (K. Martin) 43-17 World (Lindholm)
North America wins 73-57
North America wins aggregate 207-193