The 2024 Cortina Curling Cup was held from January 11 to 13 at the Olympic Ice Stadium in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy as part of the World Curling Tour. The event was held in a round-robin format with a € 20,000 purse.
In the final, the Turkish women's team, led by Dilşat Yıldız won their first tour title, defeating Zurich's Xenia Schwaller 6–4 in the championship game. Yıldız, with Öznur Polat, İfayet Şafak Çalıkuşu, Berfin Şengül and İclal Karaman opened the scoring with two in the first and took two more in the fourth to maintain a two point lead. After Schwaller got two back in the sixth, the Turkish team scored a single in the seventh before stealing one in the eighth for the victory. Coming in as the eighth seeds, Team Yıldız finished 3–1 through the round robin to qualify for the quarterfinals, which included an upset victory over the host Stefania Constantini rink. In the playoffs, they beat Germany's Emira Abbes 9–3 in the quarters before defeating Norway's Marianne Rørvik 4–2 in the semis to qualify for the final. Team Schwaller went 4–0 through pool play and beat Korea's Gim Eun-ji 7–4 in the semifinals. In the third place game, Team Rørvik won 6–2 over Team Gim.
The inaugural event was held as a test event for the 2026 Winter Olympics, utilizing the venue that the curling competition will be played on during the Games. Because of this, it attracted many national teams, all with the hopes of qualifying for the 2026 Games.
Ten teams from eight nations made up the field for the event. Among them were Italy's own Team Stefania Constantini rink of Cortina d'Ampezzo, world number two ranked Team Gim Eun-ji of South Korea and reigning world silver medalists Team Marianne Rørvik of Norway.
Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Emira Abbes (Fourth) Mia Höhne (Skip) Pia-Lisa Schöll Maike Beer Füssen, Germany Stefania Constantini Elena Mathis Angela Romei – Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Gim Eun-ji Kim Min-ji Kim Su-ji Seol Ye-eun Seol Ye-ji Uijeongbu, South Korea Corrie Hürlimann Celine Schwizgebel Sarah Müller Marina Lörtscher Zug, Switzerland Erika Tuvike (Fourth) Kerli Laidsalu (Skip) Liisa Turmann Heili Grossmann Tallinn, Estonia Rebecca Mariani Camilla Gilberti Lucrezia Grande Rachele Scalesse Trentino, Italy Robyn Munro Lisa Davie Holly Wilkie-Milne Laura Watt Stirling, Scotland Kristin Skaslien (Fourth) Marianne Rørvik (Skip) Mille Haslev Nordbye Martine Rønning Lillehammer, Norway Xenia Schwaller Selina Gafner Fabienne Rieder Selina Rychiger Marion Wüest Zurich, Switzerland Dilşat Yıldız Öznur Polat İfayet Şafak Çalıkuşu Berfin Şengül İclal Karaman Erzurum, Turkey
WCF ranking Year to date World Curling Federation order of merit ranking for each team prior to the event.
Team Rank Points Gim Eun-ji 2 283.5 Stefania Constantini 8 206.8 Xenia Schwaller 14 128.8 Marianne Rørvik 24 114.4 Corrie Hürlimann 39 70.6 Robyn Munro 50 46.8 Marie Kaldvee 77 24.4 Dilşat Yıldız 83 21.3 Emira Abbes 87 20.4 Rebecca Mariani 235 1.1
Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Marianne Rørvik 3 1 25 15 Gim Eun-ji 3 1 26 12 Team Abbes 2 2 20 22 Corrie Hürlimann 1 3 10 26 Team Kaldvee 1 3 20 26 Pool B W L PF PA Xenia Schwaller 4 0 28 14 Dilşat Yıldız 3 1 26 13 Stefania Constantini 2 2 19 20 Robyn Munro 1 3 17 26 Rebecca Mariani 0 4 12 29
Round robin results All draw times listed in Central European Time (UTC+01:00).
Draw 1 Thursday, January 11, 10:00 am
Draw 2 Thursday, January 11, 2:00 pm
Draw 3 Thursday, January 11, 6:00 pm
Draw 4 Friday, January 12, 8:00 am
Draw 5 Friday, January 12, 12:00 pm
Draw 6 Friday, January 12, 4:00 pm
Draw 7 Friday, January 12, 8:00 pm
Playoffs
Source:
Quarterfinals Saturday, January 13, 8:00 am
Semifinals Saturday, January 13, 11:30 am
Third place game Saturday, January 13, 3:00 pm
Final Saturday, January 13, 3:00 pm
Notes
References
External links Official Website CurlingZone