Jiang Xindi | |
Birth Date: | 26 January 1997 |
Birth Place: | Harbin, China |
Curling Club: | Harbin CC, Harbin, Heilongjiang |
Skip: | Han Yu |
Third: | Wang Rui |
Second: | Dong Ziqi |
Lead: | Zhang Lijun |
Alternate: | Jiang Xindi |
World Championship Appearances: | 2 |
Pacific Championship Appearances: | 3 |
Olympic Appearances: | 2 (2018, 2022) |
Other Appearances: | Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships 3 (2011, 2013, 2015) |
Jiang Xindi,[1] nicknamed "Cindy"[2] (; born January 26, 1997, in Harbin, China) is a Chinese female curler. She was part of the Chinese women's curling team on 2018 Winter Olympics.
Jiang competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, where the Chinese team participated in the women's curling tournament.[3] She competed at the 2018 World Women's Curling Championship where her team placed seventh. Jiang also won the bronze medal at the 2017 and 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and the silver medal at the 2013 and 2015 Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships.
To start the 2019–20 season, Jiang and her team won the World Curling Tour event, the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic. She represented China at the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships as second for Han Yu. After going 6–1 in the round robin, they defeated Korea and Japan in the semifinal and final, respectively, to claim the title.[4] It was China's first title since 2014. The victory earned a spot for China at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship, which was cancelled due to COVID-19.[5] [6] A year later, the team represented China at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship, finishing tenth with a 6–7 record.[7]
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events | |
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2010–11[8] | Jiang Xindi | PJCC 2011 (4th) | ||||||
2012–13 | Jiang Xindi | Zhao Xiyang | ||||||
2014–15 | Jiang Yilun | Wang Rui | Zhao Xiyang | Jiang Xindi | Zhang Zhipeng | |||
2015–16 | Jiang Xindi | She Qiutong | ||||||
Jiang Xindi | WJBCC 2016 (5th) | |||||||
2016–17 | Jiang Yilun | Jiang Xindi | Yao Mingyue | |||||
2017–18 | Jiang Yilun | Jiang Xindi | Yao Mingyue | Yan Hui | ||||
Jiang Xindi | OQE 2017 WOG 2018 (5th) | |||||||
Jiang Yilun | Wang Rui | Jiang Xindi | Yan Hui | Yao Mingyue | Tan Weidong | (7th) | ||
2018–19 | Jiang Yilun | Dong Ziqi | Jiang Xindi | Wang Rui (PACC) | Carolyn McRorie (PACC) | CWC 2018–19/1 (7th) | ||
Jiang Yilun | Zhang Lijun | Dong Ziqi | Jiang Xindi | |||||
2019–20 | Jiang Yilun | Zhang Lijun | Dong Ziqi | Jiang Xindi | ||||
Zhang Lijun | Jiang Xindi | Zhao Ruiyi | ||||||
Han Yu | Zhang Lijun | Jiang Xindi | Yu Jiaxin | Dong Ziqi | Marco Mariani | |||
2020–21 | Han Yu | Dong Ziqi | Zhang Lijun | Jiang Xindi | Marco Mariani, Sören Grahn | (10th) | ||
2021–22 | Han Yu | Dong Ziqi | Zhang Lijun | Jiang Xindi | Marco Mariani, Sören Grahn |
Jiang became involved in curling when her grandfather, middle school physics teacher Jiang Fang opened a curling club after he was inspired watching curling on TV broadcasting from 2006 Olympics in Turin. Many from her family plays curling too.[9] [10]
She is niece of competitive Chinese female curler Jiang Yilun,[11] they are teammates for today.