Liu Sijia Explained

Liu Sijia
刘斯佳
Birth Date:20 July 1988
Birth Place:Harbin, China[1]
Curling Club:Harbin CC,
Harbin, Heilongjiang
World Championship Appearances:2
World Mixed Doubles Championship Appearances:2
Pacific Championship Appearances:4

Liu Sijia (; born July 20, 1988) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. She skipped the Chinese National Women's Curling Team at both the and World Women's Curling Championships.

Career

As a junior curler Liu won a gold medal at the 2010 Pacific Junior Curling Championships and silvers at the 2008 and 2009 Pacific Juniors. She skipped the Chinese team to a seventh place finish at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships, finishing with a 3–6 record.

In her first season out of juniors, Liu was the lead for the Chinese team, skipped by Wang Bingyu at the 2010 Pacific Curling Championships, winning a silver medal. Four years later, Liu skipped China at the 2014 World Women's Curling Championship, finishing seventh with a 6–5 record. The following year she also skipped the Chinese team at the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship, where they lost in a tiebreaker to Scotland's Eve Muirhead.[2]

Liu won her first World Curling Tour event at the 2014 Cloverdale Cash Spiel.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sijia Liu | Players | Curling World Cup . 2018-09-09 . 2018-09-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180909222214/https://www.curlingworldcup.com/players/sijia-liu . dead .
  2. News: 2015 World Women's Curling Championship Latest. Scottish Curling. March 22, 2015. December 9, 2020.
  3. Web site: Liu wins 2014 Cloverdale Cash Spiel. CurlingZone. December 9, 2020.