3rd place in Gyeonggi-do X Jang Ming-ryang team won the wheelchair curling championship @ Icheon Training Center's performance fee
Nov 22, 2025
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The competition, which was held at the Icheon Training Center of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled from the 17th to the 20th, featured eight teams from five countries, including two from South Korea (Gyeonggi-do Sports Council for the Disabled, Jeonnam), two from Taiwan, two from Japan, two from China, and Hong Kong. The competition, which began in 2023 led by Yoon Kyung-sun, president of the Korea Curling Association for the Disabled, aims to expand the base of wheelchair curling in Asia and strengthen international competitiveness, and continued its status as an international competition this year with the approval of grade classification by the World Curling Federation (WCF).
In the group round robin-style qualifying round, the semifinal match between China (Wang Haitao), the Gyeonggi Provincial Sports Council for the Disabled, China (Jang Ming Liang) and Jeonnam was completed. In the semifinals, both sides played a match between South Korea and China, and in the playoffs, national players from each country performed high-quality games, but China won both games, and South Korea unfortunately failed to reach the final. In the final match between China's Wang Haitao team and China's Zhang Mingliang team, Zhang Mingliang, who scored a decisive point in the last end, won and became the champion. In the bronze medal match, South Korea's Gyeonggi Sports Council for the Disabled beat the Jeonnam team to finish third.
The Korea Association of Curling for Persons with Disabilities evaluated this competition as a `meaningful place for wheelchair curling athletes from Asia to gather and share technological growth and experience.' Yoon Kyung-sun, president of the Korea Disabled Curling Association, who will challenge for the first-ever wheelchair curling gold medal at the Milan Paralympics next year, said "Many teams participated this year and performed high-quality games." Next year, we will spare the association-level support to attract more Asian countries to increase the international status of the competition and accelerate the development of wheelchair curling"I promised.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
