With the end of this season's Players Grand Slam, the world curling team events have all ended the season, and the latest world rankings have been released today. On the men's side, world champions Moat of Scotland are ranked No. 1 in the world with 532.3 points, while Xu Xiaoming, who is fourth in the world championships and represents the Chinese curling team, is 16th with 180.3 points. In terms of women's teams, the world champion team of Canada, Hohmann, won the first place in the world, while the Wang Rui team, who won the third place in the World Championships, finished 14th with 195.4 points.
The International Curling Federation has a point system, and the Chinese curling team does not have high points due to frequent absences and frequent team changes, and it has directly lost many opportunities for Grand Slam events, which is not helpful for us to train the team to improve their skills. Xu Xiaoming's team had an up-and-down performance at the recently concluded World Championships, finishing fourth and losing the game against the weaker team, but they showed a certain level of competitiveness in the final round of qualifying against the world No. 1 Moat.
Men's Curling Team Rankings
The World Championships can only send one team from each association (country), so this is not representative of the level of all sports teams. It is not difficult to see that there are five Canadian curling teams in the men's top 10 and three teams each in the women's top 10, Japan and South Korea, showing deep bench depth. Next, Xu Xiaoming will lead the men's team to continue to train hard and prepare to qualify for next year's Olympic Games in the qualifying tournament at the end of the year.
Women's Curling Team Rankings