Ma Jingyi Explained

Ma Jingyi
Birth Date:29 October 1995
Birth Place:Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
World Championship Appearances:1
Olympic Appearances:1 (2018)

Ma Jingyi (; ; born October 29, 1995) is a Chinese curler. She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics.[1]

Career

Juniors

Ma represented China at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships, playing second for the team. China went undefeated in the round robin but than lost the final 5–4 to South Korea's Kim Eun-bi.

Women's

Ma won the 2019 World Qualification Event with her team,[2] [3] skipped by Mei Jie which qualified them for the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship. There, they qualified for the playoffs but lost their qualification game to Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni who went on to win the event.[4] She also competed at the Olympic Games in 2018 as lead for China. The team finished just outside the playoffs with a 4–5 record. Despite not qualifying for the playoffs, Ma was the third best lead during the round robin stage, finishing behind Lisa Weagle and Becca Hamilton.

Teams

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate
2016–17[5] Ma Jingyi Dong Ziqi
2017–18 Wang Bingyu Zhou Yan Liu Jinli Ma Jingyi Dong Ziqi
2018–19 Wang Rui (Fourth) Mei Jie (Skip) Ma Jingyi Zhang Lijun
2019–20 Wang Rui (Fourth) Mei Jie (Skip) Yao Mingyue Ma Jingyi

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Athlete Profile: MA Jingyi - Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. www.pyeongchang2018.com. 2018-02-15. 2018-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20180216085017/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/curling/athlete-profile-n3027345-ma-jingyi.htm. dead.
  2. Web site: Women's World Qualification Event. CurlingZone. July 26, 2020.
  3. News: China qualify for World Women's Curling Championship. World Curling Federation. August 3, 2019.
  4. News: A capsule look at teams competing at the world women's curling championship. Strong. Gregory. March 15, 2019. National Post. August 3, 2019. The Canadian Press.
  5. Web site: Ma Jingyi past teams . Curling Zone. August 3, 2019.