Wheelchair curling at the Winter Paralympics
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Wheelchair curling tournaments have been staged at the Paralympic Games since the Winter Paralympic Games in 2006 in Turin.
The tournaments are staged for mixed gender teams.
Canada has been the most successful team in the tournaments, winning three of three gold medals.
Participating nations
The final placement for each team in each tournament is shown in the following tables.
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Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  Canada | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 |  Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 |  Russia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 |  Sweden | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
Medal summary
Main article: List of Paralympic medalists in wheelchair curling
Mixed
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| 2006 Torino | Canada (CAN) Chris Daw Gerry Austgarden Gary Cormack Sonja Gaudet Karen Blachford |
Great Britain (GBR) Frank Duffy Michael McCreadie Tom Killin Angie Malone Ken Dickson |
Sweden (SWE) Jalle Jungnell Glenn Ikonen Rolf Johansson Anette Wilhelm Bernt Sjoeberg |
| 2010 Vancouver | Canada (CAN) Jim Armstrong Darryl Neighbour Ina Forrest Sonja Gaudet Bruno Yizek |
South Korea (KOR) Haksung Kim Myungjin Kim Yanghyun Cho Misuk Kang Gilwoo Park |
Sweden (SWE) Jalle Jungnell Glenn Ikonen* Patrik Burman Anette Wilhelm Patrik Kallin |
| 2014 Sochi | Canada (CAN) Jim Armstrong Dennis Thiessen Ina Forrest Sonja Gaudet Mark Ideson |
Russia (RUS) Andrei Smirnov Alexander Shevchenko Svetlana Pakhomova Marat Romanov Oksana Slesarenko |
Great Britain (GBR) Aileen Neilson Gregor Ewan Bob McPherson Jim Gault Angie Malone |
Tournaments
| Year | Host | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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| Gold medalist | Score | Silver medalist | Bronze medalist | Score | Fourth place | ||||
| 2006 details |
Torino | Canada |
7–4 | Great Britain |
Sweden |
10–2 |  Norway | ||
| 2010 details |
Vancouver | Canada |
8–7 | South Korea |
Sweden |
7–5 |  United States | ||
| 2014 details |
Sochi | Canada |
8-3 | Russia |
Great Britain |
7-3 |  China | ||
See also
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References
- "Results". International Paralympic Committee. 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
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