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General terms

World Curling

The international governing body for curling, which publishes the Rules of Curling (with R14 and R15 for wheelchair curling), the Wheelchair Curling Policy and the classification rules.

See also: Wheelchair curling

Wheelchair curling events

The World Wheelchair Curling Championship (WWhCC), the World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship (WWhMDCC) and their qualifying events. To play in them a player must meet the World Curling classification criteria. Teams may use the evening practice sessions at these events.

Delivery

Starting position of the stone

If the stone is delivered between the hack and the outermost edge of the top of the house, it starts on the centre line. If it is delivered between the top of the house and the hog line, the whole width of the stone must start between the wheelchair lines.

Delivery violation

A breach of the delivery rule (the starting position, wheels on the ice, no body touching the ice, release before the hog line) or of the no-sweeping rule. The delivered stone is removed from play and the other team replaces any displaced stones.

Stone in play (wheelchair)

In wheelchair curling a stone is in play when it reaches the hog line at the delivery end, not the tee line. A stone that has not reached that line may be returned to the player and delivered again.

See also: Wheelchair curling

Positions of the other players

While a stone is being delivered, the non-delivering players keep still behind the back line at the delivery end. Any two of them may instead stay behind the back line at the playing end, but must not interfere with where the skip or vice-skip of the delivering team stands.

No-tick shot

The no-tick shot rule (R7) does not apply in wheelchair curling, or in mixed doubles.

See also: Wheelchair curling

Delivery stick

Delivery stick standards

A stick may give no mechanical advantage beyond acting as an extension of the arm and hand, for example no springs or pistons. It may not aim the stone or adjust its weight or speed. It is at most 2.45 m long, with a hollow tube of fixed length during the delivery (adjustable between shots), and the athlete, handle, tube and head must stay in a fixed connection throughout.

Delivery stick advice

World Curling does not certify or formally approve delivery sticks, but gives an annual consultation on whether a product meets the standards, for a possible fee. A sample has to reach World Curling by 31 May and advice is given by 31 July.

Delivery stick limits

A team may have up to four delivery sticks in the field of play (two in wheelchair mixed doubles), and any player can use any of them. A stick cannot be changed during a game, or during or after the pre-game practice, unless the chief umpire allows it for accidental damage; a change without permission forfeits the game.

See also: Wheelchair mixed doubles

Delivery stick penalties

Using a non-conforming stick in a game or practice costs the player disqualification from the competition and the team the game on a first offence. A second offence disqualifies the team from the competition, and all its players are barred from World Curling competitions for 12 months.

Target device

Only a brush may be used as the target (the place held for the stone to aim at). A delivery stick or any other device may not.

Teams and games

Player leaving the game

A player who leaves during an end for illness or accident may return if they deliver all their allocated stones. If the player's stones are still to be delivered, an alternate comes in at once, keeping both genders, or the game is forfeited. At the next end the team may change its line-up, and the replaced player cannot come back.

Thinking time

Each team has 38 minutes of game-clock time in wheelchair curling (26 in wheelchair mixed doubles). In extra ends each team gets 6 minutes (4 in wheelchair mixed doubles). A team's clock stops when its stone reaches the hog line, not the tee line.

Delay in starting

When a team delays the start of a game, its thinking time is cut for each end that counts as complete by 4 minutes 45 seconds in wheelchair curling and 3 minutes 15 seconds in wheelchair mixed doubles.

Technical time-out

A stoppage for a problem with a player's own equipment, for example the delivery stick or the wheelchair. It may last at most 10 minutes in wheelchair curling (5 in other curling), and a team that cannot resume then forfeits the game.

Last stone draw in wheelchair curling

The pre-game draw shot that decides who has the last stone in the first end. If a team has four players of one gender on the ice during it, its result is recorded as the maximum distance. In wheelchair mixed doubles each player delivers an equal number of clockwise and counter-clockwise stones.

See also: Wheelchair mixed doubles

Wheelchair mixed doubles

Wheelchair mixed doubles play

Played as mixed doubles under rule R17, apart from the rule that lets players sweep, because there is no sweeping at any time. Wheelchair rule R14 applies except for the four-player team rule.

Electric wheelchairs

Electric wheelchairs are not allowed in wheelchair mixed doubles unless the athlete uses an electric wheelchair for daily mobility.

See also: Wheelchair mixed doubles

Power play break

A team that uses its power play must tell the opponent its decision at the end of the 60-second break, or after 6 and a half minutes of the mid-game break (4 and a half in standard mixed doubles). The mid-game break is 7 minutes in wheelchair mixed doubles.

See also: Wheelchair mixed doubles

Classification

Wheelchair curling sport class

Wheelchair curling has one sport class, set by the minimum impairment criteria, and only eligible impairments that affect the lower limbs are considered.

See also: Wheelchair curling

Minimum impairment criteria (wheelchair curling)

An athlete needs at least one of: a bilateral below-knee amputation (an amputation through the ankle is not eligible), a unilateral hip disarticulation, or a bilateral limb deficit equal to below-knee; residual power in the legs of less than 40 (normal 80); permanent loss of 50 per cent or more of joint range at two or more large joints in each leg; hypertonia of grade 3 or 4 on the Ashworth scale in both legs; or a coordination score of 2 or less (normal 6). A one-sided above-knee amputation with less than 25 of 40 in the other leg also counts.

Eligible impairments (wheelchair curling)

Impaired muscle power, limb deficiency, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis and impaired passive range of motion, such as from spinal cord injury, amputation or cerebral palsy. The impairment must be permanent.

Manual muscle testing

Classifiers test hip, knee and ankle movements with the Daniels and Worthingham method (9th edition), counting the scale's scores 0, 1 and 2 all as 0. A leg with normal power scores 80.

Sport class status (wheelchair curling)

Shows whether an athlete must be assessed again: Confirmed (C), Review (R) and Review with a Fixed Review Date (FRD), after New (N) before a first evaluation.

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