Canadian Mixed Curling Championship Explained
| Canadian Mixed Curling Championship |
| Established: | 1964 |
| Current Host City: | Swift Current, Saskatchewan |
| Current Arena: | Swift Current Curling Club |
| Current: | 2023 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship |
The Canadian Mixed Curling Championship is the national curling championship for mixed curling in Canada. The winners of the tournament represent Canada at the World Mixed Curling Championship.
In mixed curling, the positions on a team must alternate between men and women. If a man throws last rocks, which is usually the case, the women must throw lead rocks and third rocks, while the other male member of the team throws second rocks. In 2004, Shannon Kleibrink became the only woman to skip a team and win a Canadian Mixed championship.
History
The Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was established in 1964, with Canadian Breweries as the event's sponsor and Frank Sargent as its committee chairman.[1] [2] For the first two years it was held at the Royal Canadian Curling Club in Toronto. The first championship was won by Ernie Boushy of Winnipeg with a record of 9–1.[3] [4]
In 1973, Seagram Distillers became the new official sponsor, until 1983.[5]
Up until 1995, the event was typically held in March, but was bumped up to January that year when Unitel became a sponsor. That was also the year that the "Season of Champions" event series was implemented, and the Page playoffs began to be used.[5]
Unitel's parent company AT&T became the sponsor in 1997, a partnership that only lasted until 1998. The event was dropped as a Season of Champions event in 2004, and was no longer shown on television. In 2005, the page playoff system was dropped and replaced by a 3-team playoff. The 2005 event was bumped up to November of the previous year, and the event has been held in November ever since, and is why the event was not held in the year it was billed as until the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled the November 2020 event.
Starting with the 2008 Championships (held in November 2007), the Canadian Curling Association picked two curlers from the winning team to represent Canada at the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. This ended with the 2012 Mixed Championship, with the creation of the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials.
Champions
The past champions of the event are listed as follows:[6]
1964–1979
| Year | Winning Locale | Winning Team | Host |
|---|
| 1964 | | | Toronto, Ontario |
| 1965 | | | Toronto, Ontario |
| 1966 | | | Fort William, Ontario |
| 1967 | | | Québec City, Quebec |
| 1968 | | | Saint Boniface, Manitoba |
| 1969 | | | Kitchener, Ontario |
| 1970 | | | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| 1971 | | | Saint John, New Brunswick |
| 1972 | | | Thunder Bay, Ontario |
| 1973 | | | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
| 1974 | | | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| 1975 | | | Kitchener, Ontario |
| 1976 | | | Lethbridge, Alberta |
| 1977 | | | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| 1978 | | | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| 1979 | | | Prince George, British Columbia | |
1980–present
A playoff was added in 1980.
| Year | Winning Locale | Winning Team | Runner up (skip) | Host |
|---|
| 1980[7] | | | (John Fortier) | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |
| 1981[8] | | | (Rick Folk) | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| 1982[9] | | | (Rick Folk) | Timmins, Ontario |
| 1983[10] | | | (Scott Hamilton) | Saint John, New Brunswick |
| 1984 | | | (Kevin Adams) | Prince Albert, Saskatchewan |
| 1985 | | | (Dave Jones) | Toronto, Ontario |
| 1986 | | | (Randy Ferbey) | Kamloops, British Columbia |
| 1987 | | | (Gord Tokaryk) | Summerside, Prince Edward Island |
| 1988 | | | (Ken Ursuliak) | North Bay, Ontario |
| 1989 | | | (Jeff Stoughton) | Brandon, Manitoba |
| 1990 | | | (Howard Restall) | Rimouski, Quebec |
| 1991 | | | (Grant Odishaw) | Thunder Bay, Ontario |
| 1992 | | | (Jim Adams) | Grande Prairie, Alberta |
| 1993 | | | (Terry Meek) | Swift Current, Saskatchewan |
| 1994 | | | (Eric Wiltzen) | Leduc, Alberta |
| | | (Peter MacDonald) | Point Edward, Ontario |
| | | (Rich Moffatt) | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
| 1997 | | | (Eric Wiltzen) | Kindersley, Saskatchewan |
| | | (Dean Wadland) | Owen Sound, Ontario |
| | | (Peter MacDonald) | Victoria, British Columbia |
| | | (Jim Packet) | Lethbridge, Alberta |
| | | (Mark Dacey) | Weyburn, Saskatchewan |
| | | (John Likely) | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| | | (Shannon Kleibrink) | Abbotsford, British Columbia |
| | | (Heath McCormick) | Timmins, Ontario |
| 2005 | | | (Kyle George) | Prince Albert, Saskatchewan |
| | | (David Hamblin) | Whitehorse, Yukon |
| | | (Ève Bélisle) | Kitchener, Ontario |
| | | (Bob Turcotte) | Calgary, Alberta |
| | | (Wayne Tuck Jr.) | Iqaluit, Nunavut |
| | | (Mark Bice) | Burlington, Ontario |
| | | (Terry McNamee) | Morris, Manitoba |
| | | (Kurt Balderston) | Sudbury, Ontario |
| | | (Brent MacDougall) | Mount Royal, Quebec |
| | | (Cory Heggestad) | Ottawa, Ontario |
| | | (Jamie Koe) | North Bay, Ontario |
| | Mick Lizmore, Sarah Wilkes, Brad Thiessen, Alison Kotylak[11] | (Bruce Korte) | Toronto, Ontario |
| | | (Braden Calvert) | Yarmouth, Nova Scotia |
| | | (Robert Desjardins) | Swan River, Manitoba |
| | | (Kendal Thompson) | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| | | (Grant Odishaw) | Saguenay, Quebec |
| | | (Mike McLean) | Canmore, Alberta |
| | | (Trevor Bonot) | Prince Albert, Saskatchewan |
| | | (Kyle Kurz) | Swift Current, Saskatchewan |
| 2024 | | | | St. Catharines, Ontario |
| 2025 | | | | Assiniboia, Saskatchewan | |
Championships by province
| Province | Titles by province |
|---|
| 11 |
| 11 |
| 9 |
| 7 |
| 4 |
| 4 |
| 4 |
| 4 |
| 3 |
| 2 |
| 1 | |
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: History of the Mixed. https://web.archive.org/web/20140213024708/http://www.curling.ca/championships/mixed/history-of-the-mixed/. dead. February 13, 2014. February 13, 2014. Curling Canada. April 13, 2020.
- News: Dugie and champion rink named to Hall of Fame. February 19, 1974. Brandon Sun. Brandon, Manitoba. 6.
- 14 Rinks Entered in Quebec Mixed Curling Playdowns, News and Eastern Townships Advocate, Feb 20, 1964.
- "Curling News column", L'artisan. Nov 23, 1964.
- Web site: 2020 Mixed Guide . Curling Canada.
- Web site: Past Champions of the Mixed . . https://web.archive.org/web/20140213024716/http://www.curling.ca/championships/mixed/history-of-the-mixed/past-champions/ . February 13, 2014 . dead .
- News: Manitoba foursome wins marathon mixed curling final. 2023-11-05. Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. March 24, 1980.
- News: Folk misses key draw, Lang grabs mixed title. 2023-11-05. Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. March 23, 1981.
- News: B.C. rink mixed curling champions. 2023-11-05. Montreal Gazette. March 29, 1982.
- News: Folk foursome tops field. 2023-11-05. North Bay Nugget. March 28, 1983.
- http://www.curling.ca/blog/2015/11/14/alberta-claims-gold-at-2016-canadian-mixed/ 2016 Canadian Mixed Curling Champions
