Welsh curling team (women)



The Welsh curling team represent Wales in international curling competitions . ==History [ edit] == Wales first took part in an international tournament during the European Championship of 1980 in the Danish capital Copenhagen . A successful debut was not it: Wales could hardly one of his ten games to win, and was including a 17-1 thrashing of- Switzerland . A year later, the team finished skip Jean King in eighth place, and this is still the best result in the history of the Welsh curling. The following years wallowed Wales after all in the lower reaches of the standings. In 1988, 1991 and 1993, Wales was absent, but after 1994 the country for eight years no longer participate in the European Championship. The comeback in 2002 was successful: Wales finished in second place in the B division, and so just missed promotion to the highest level. In 2003, the same scenario was followed, after which the Welsh team has again for a long time withdrew from the curling world. In 2009 the team made ​​yet another comeback, but in three years was the seventeenth place the highest. Since 2012, Wales again absent on the international curling scene.

The World Wales could never places, and Wales since the Olympics is part of the British curling team, it can not participate individually in the Winter Games. ==Wales at the European Championships [ edit] ==