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World Wheelchair Curling Championship

international wheelchair curling event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ1410562 ↗
Source-derived summary

The World Wheelchair Curling Championship is an annual world championship held to determine the world's best team in wheelchair curling. It is held every non-Paralympic year.

Medalists

Following is a list of medalists:

All-time medal table

As of 2025 World Wheelchair Curling Championship

Performance timeline

Records

Wheelchair Fair Play Award

For the World Curling Wheelchair Sportsmanship Award all participants are invited to nominate a fellow competitor who, in their view, has best exemplified the traditional values of skill, honesty, fair play, sportsmanship and friendship during a world championship. The award is presented at the closing ceremony. Players cannot vote for a fellow team member.

World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship

The World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship is a qualifier event for the World Wheelchair Championship. From 2015 to 2018, the top 2 teams qualify for the World Championship. Starting at the 2018 World Wheelchair-B Curling Championship, the top 3 teams qualify.

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“World Wheelchair Curling Championship” enters the record as international wheelchair curling event. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Wheelchair and Curling can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2015, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around World, Wheelchair and Curling.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1410562. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025, 2015 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “World Wheelchair Curling Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.