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The Grey Power World Cup of Curling

Date

Oct. 21st-25th, 2009

Address
Hershey Centre
5500 Rose Cherry Pl
Mississauga, Ontario
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The Grey Power World Cup of Curling, is one of the four men's majors that highlight the World Curling Tour season. Players will be battling for the all important Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS) points available at the event.

  • First place40.000
  • Second place27.000
  • Third and fourth place22.000
  • Fifth-Eighth place18.000


Round robin wins for teams not making playoffs will earn 3.000 points per win

Event Description

Scheduled to take place at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont. from October 21-25, 2009, the Grey Power World Cup of Curling is an elite 14-team international tournament featuring the world’s top Olympic qualifiers and hopefuls.  The tournament will be contested just four months prior to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. 

Confirmed Canadian entries for the Grey Power World Cup of Curling include 2010 Olympic hopefuls Kevin Martin (Edmonton, Alta.), Glenn Howard (Coldwater, Ont.), Kevin Koe (Edmonton, Alta.), Randy Ferbey (Edmonton, Alta.) and Brad Gushue (St. John’s, Nfld.). 

Among the international 2010 Olympic qualifiers who will compete at the Grey Power World Cup of Curling include reigning World Championship gold medallist David Murdoch (Lockerbie, Scotland), reigning World Championship bronze medallist Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, Norway), 2007 World Championship silver medallist Andreas Kapp (Unterthingau, Germany), 2006 Olympic bronze medallist John Shuster (Chisholm, Minnesota), China’s Fengchun Wang (Harbin, China), Sweden’s Niklas Edin (Sundbyberg, Sweden), France’s Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, France) and Denmark’s Ulrik Schmidt (Copenhagen, Denmark).  The final nation to compete in the Grey Power World Cup is Switzerland who will send one of its two Vancouver 2010 hopefuls to the event.

The Grey Power World Cup of Curling will also feature the women’s Three Nations Cup. A total of four Olympic qualifiers and hopefuls will compete in the women’s Three Nations Cup including reigning Olympic bronze medallist Shannon Kleibrink (Calgary, Alta.), 2009 Roar of the Rings direct qualifier Stefanie Lawton (Saskatoon, Sask.), reigning World Championship gold medallist Bingyu Wang (Harbin, China) and 2010 Olympic Winter Games qualifier Eve Muirhead (Perth, Scotland), representing Great Britain.