Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Note: hammers denote the team that had the last stone in the first end.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Nordby)	0	1	0	0	3	0	3	2	1	1	11
United States (Johnson)	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	6

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Kleibrink)	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	5
Sweden (Norberg)	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	7

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (Ott)	0	0	4	0	2	0	3	2	X	X	11
Italy (Gaspari)	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	X	X	4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Great Britain (Martin)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	3
Denmark (Holm)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2

1 vs. 4
In a close game, Sweden's Anette Norberg (1) edged out Norway's Dordi Nordby (4). The turning point of the game came in the eighth end when Sweden scored the only steal of the game. From this point on the Swedish team was ahead. Anette Norberg curled 85% while Dordi Nordby struggled, which was the difference in the game.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Norberg)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	5
Norway (Nordby)	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	4

Player percentages
Sweden		Norway
Anna Svärd	86%	Camilla Holth	71%
Cathrine Lindahl	79%	Marianne Rørvik	86%
Eva Lund	93%	Marianne Haslum	79%
Anette Norberg	86%	Dordi Nordby	68%
Total	86%	Total	76%

2 vs. 3
In the other semi-final, Canada's Shannon Kleibrink team (3) faced off against Mirjam Ott of Switzerland (2). After Ott scored 3 in the third end getting a split off a rock in front of the house, Kleibrink was unable to mount a comeback. The Swiss team managed to keep in the lead for the rest of the game. Mirjam Ott curling 88% in the game ensured victory for the Swiss team, while Shannon Kleibrink struggled at 66%.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (Ott)	0	0	3	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	7
Canada (Kleibrink)	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	5

Player percentages
Switzerland		Canada
Michèle Moser	74%	Christine Keshen	84%
Valeria Spälty	70%	Glenys Bakker	61%
Binia Beeli	70%	Amy Nixon	65%
Mirjam Ott	88%	Shannon Kleibrink	66%
Total	75%	Total	69%

Canada scored four in the first end after Dordi Nordby, the Norwegian skip flopped her rock over on a heavy freeze attempt and was removed by Shannon Kleibrink, the Canadian skip on her last rock. With three other Canadian rocks in the house, Canada scored four. Canada never looked back, scoring four more points in the fifth end en route to an 11-5 thrashing of Norway.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Nordby)	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	X	X	5
Canada (Kleibrink)	4	1	0	0	4	0	2	0	X	X	11

Player percentages
Canada		Norway
Christine Keshen	83%	Camilla Holth	92%
Glenys Bakker	73%	Marianne Rørvik	70%
Amy Nixon	80%	Marianne Haslum	72%
Shannon Kleibrink	66%	Dordi Nordby	56%
Total	75%	Total	73%

Sweden held the lead for much of the game, but saw the Swiss team start to claw back late in the game. In the 8th end, a decision by Swedish skip Anette Norberg to hit an unthreatening rock out of the house on her last rock instead of a guard was followed by a great raise of a Swiss rock on to a small corner of the button by Swiss skip Mirjam Ott. This brought the Swiss within one point of a tie. They continued to claw back, and after ten ends the game was tied, so they had to go to another. In the 11th end, the Swiss played a good end, leaving Anette Norberg a difficult double take-out on her last rock to win the gold medal. Norberg was successful, leaving her stone in the house to win the game, and the gold medal, 7–6.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Sweden (Norberg)	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	7
Switzerland (Ott)	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	6

Player percentages
Sweden		Switzerland
Anna Svärd	61%	Michèle Moser	83%
Cathrine Lindahl	82%	Valeria Spälty	66%
Eva Lund	69%	Binia Beeli	80%
Anette Norberg	83%	Mirjam Ott	85%
Total	74%	Total	78%

Minimum 6 games. Five best players from each position

Lead	Nation	%
Christine Keshen	Canada	81
Lynn Cameron	Great Britain	79
Malene Krause	Denmark	79
Ekaterina Galkina	Russia	78
Anna Svärd	Sweden	78

Second	Nation	%
Nkeirouka Ezekh	Russia	79
Valeria Spälty	Switzerland	79
Cathrine Lindahl	Sweden	78
Mari Motohashi	Japan	73
Lene Nielsen	Denmark	72
Marianne Rørvik	Norway	72
Kelly Wood	Great Britain	72

Third	Nation	%
Eva Lund	Sweden	80
Marianne Haslum	Norway	78
Binia Beeli	Switzerland	77
Yumie Hayashi	Japan	77
Olga Jarkova	Russia	75

Skip	Nation	%
Anette Norberg	Sweden	79
Shannon Kleibrink	Canada	76
Rhona Martin	Great Britain	75
Mirjam Ott	Switzerland	75
Dordi Nordby	Norway	72

Nation	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Club
Canada	Brad Gushue	Mark Nichols	Russ Howard*	Jamie Korab	Mike Adam	St. John's CC, St. John's
Finland	Markku Uusipaavalniemi	Wille Mäkelä	Kalle Kiiskinen	Teemu Salo	Jani Sullanmaa	Oulunkylä Curling, Helsinki
Germany	Andy Kapp	Uli Kapp	Oliver Axnick	Holger Höhne	Andreas Kempf	CC Füssen, Füssen
Great Britain	David Murdoch	Ewan MacDonald	Warwick Smith	Euan Byers	Craig Wilson	Lockerbie CC, Lockerbie
Italy	Joel Retornaz	Fabio Alvera	Gian Paolo Zandegiacomo	Marco Mariani	Antonio Menardi	CC Dolomiti, Cortina d'Ampezzo
New Zealand	Sean Becker	Hans Frauenlob	Dan Mustapic	Lorne De Pape	Warren Dobson	Ranfurly CC, Ranfurly
Norway	Pål Trulsen	Lars Vågberg	Flemming Davanger	Bent Ånund Ramsfjell	Torger Nergård	Stabekk CC, Oslo
Sweden	Peja Lindholm	Tomas Nordin	Magnus Swartling	Peter Narup	Anders Kraupp	Östersunds CK, Östersund
Switzerland	Ralph Stöckli	Claudio Pescia	Pascal Sieber	Marco Battilana	Simon Strübin	St Galler Bär CC, Zürich
United States	Pete Fenson	Shawn Rojeski	Joseph Polo	John Shuster	Scott Baird	Bemidji CC, Bemidji

* – Calls the game as a skip normally would

× – The Olympics have recorded the skip as Russ Howard, however the team internally considers that Brad Gushue is skip. It is a team formed by Brad Gushue.[1]

Note: in the following, the hammers denote the team that has the last stone in the first end.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (Becker)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
Sweden (Lindholm)	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	6

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Retornaz)	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5
Great Britain (Murdoch)	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	7

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Trulsen)	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	X	X	5
United States (Fenson)	0	2	1	0	3	0	0	5	X	X	11

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Uusipaavalniemi)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	X	2
Switzerland (Stöckli)	2	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	X	7

1 vs. 4

In a close game, where both teams played extremely well, the game came down to the last rock of the tenth end. Finland (1) had the hammer, and skip Markku Uusipaavalniemi had to put a rock right on the button to win the game. It was either that or a difficult hit and roll off a British (4) rock in the four-foot frozen to a Finnish rock. British skip David Murdoch had an excellent raise hit and roll to make the freeze on his last rock, but it was no match for Markku's draw—giving Finland the win.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Uusipaavalniemi)	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	4
Great Britain (Murdoch)	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	3

Player percentages
Finland		Great Britain
Teemu Salo	84%	Euan Byers	89%
Kalle Kiiskinen	94%	Warwick Smith	89%
Wille Mäkelä	78%	Ewan MacDonald	89%
Markku Uusipaavalniemi	88%	David Murdoch	80%
Total	86%	Total	87%

2 vs. 3

Semi-final USA vs. Canada

In the other semi-final, Canada (2) outplayed the Americans (3) for most of the game propelling them to victory. The Americans kept it close for most of the game, always within a few points until the ninth end. With Canada having the hammer, USA skip Pete Fenson had a difficult draw to beat out four Canadian stones and get buried but half of the rock was left out in the open. Canada's skip Brad Gushue peeled off Fenson's rock on his last, giving Gushue five points, at which point the American team conceded.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Gushue)	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	5	X	11
United States (Fenson)	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	5

Player percentages
Canada		United States
Jamie Korab	71%	John Shuster	79%
Russ Howard	82%	Joseph Polo	79%
Mark Nichols	94%	Shawn Rojeski	63%
Brad Gushue	83%	Pete Fenson	79%
Total	82%	Total	75%

US skip Pete Fenson got the victory after hitting a British stone in the open on his last shot of the game, giving him the only point he needed in the 8–6 victory. The momentum for the Americans began in the third end however, when the Americans scored a three-ender. David Murdoch, the British skip tried to draw to the button on top of two American stones, but was a few inches short, leaving the rock in the open. It was easily tapped out by Fenson giving the Americans three points, and they never trailed after that point, going on to win the country's first Olympic curling medal. The game was interrupted by a streaker wearing a rubber chicken, prompting one of the British players to joke, "Are you Scottish?"

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Fenson)	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	8
Great Britain (Murdoch)	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	6

Player percentages
Great Britain		United States
Euan Byers	94%	John Shuster	75%
Warwick Smith	85%	Joseph Polo	95%
Ewan MacDonald	88%	Shawn Rojeski	94%
David Murdoch	79%	Pete Fenson	83%
Total	86%	Total	87%

After Finland skip Markku Uusipaavalniemi missed an opportunity with the hammer in the 1st end, scoring only two points instead of three (0-2), Canada dominated and scored two points with the hammer in the 2nd end (2-2) before stealing the next two ends with a point in each (4-2). Finland finally won a point with the hammer in the 5th end to reduce the deficit (4-3), but numerous Finnish mistakes led to Canada's scoring six points in the 6th end (10-3), which effectively won the match and secured the gold medal. Brad Gushue of Canada actually had the chance to score an unusual seventh point with the hammer, but his draw shot had too much weight and together with some furious sweeping at the house by the Finland skip, it passed through the house. As it is, six is very unusual as well, and Gushue blamed the miss on nerves.

However, Gushue's miss was of little consequence due to Canada's lead. By this time, Finland wanted to concede, but had to carry on until the 8th end before being allowed to do so. They finished 10–4 with no points in the 7th end and one point in the 8th end. It was Canada's first gold medal in men's curling after winning silver at Nagano in 1998 and Salt Lake City in 2002. School children in Newfoundland and Labrador, where four of the five Canadians are from, had the afternoon off from school to watch the game. Those four Newfoundlanders were the first to ever win a gold medal at the Olympics. Mark Nichols, Canada's third, played phenomenally with a 97% shooting percentage. His raise-triple take-out in the sixth end was a major factor in Canada's scoring the six-point rarity.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Finland (Uusipaavalniemi)	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	X	4
Canada (Gushue)	0	2	1	1	0	6	0	0	X	X	10

Player percentages
Canada		Finland
Jamie Korab	88%	Teemu Salo	86%
Russ Howard	75%	Kalle Kiiskinen	80%
Mark Nichols	97%	Wille Mäkelä	53%
Brad Gushue	72%	Markku Uusipaavalniemi	57%
Total	83%	Total	69%

Minimum 6 games. Five best players from each position

Lead	Nation	%
Euan Byers	Great Britain	84
Holger Höhne	Germany	83
Jamie Korab	Canada	83
Bent Ånund Ramsfjell	Norway	83
Peter Narup	Sweden	82

Second	Nation	%
Warwick Smith	Great Britain	85
Magnus Swartling	Sweden	81
Joe Polo	United States	80
Russ Howard	Canada	79
Oliver Axnick	Germany	76
Flemming Davanger	Norway	76