Sweden top women's ranking

ByEurosport

Published 06/12/2006 at 13:24 GMT

With their triple-crown victory in the Olympics, the World Championships and the European Championship, Sweden claimed the top of the newly released women's rankings with 1,216 points.

CURLING 2006 World Championships - Women Sweden (W)-United States (W) McCormack Norberg

Image credit: Reuters

Olympic bronze medallists Canada (1,085 points) and silver medallists Switzerland (868 points) are in second and third place.

Scotland/Great Britain, who compete as a combined team at the Olympics and are thus grouped together in the rankings, are ranked sixth.

Canada earned their second-place on the basis of repeated top-three finishes in Olympic and World competition.

16/12/2006 at 18:36

The Canadians earned double-bronze finishes at Turin and Grande Prairie.

Switzerland earned their third-place on the basis of silver medals from both the 2002 and 2006 Olympics.

Fourth ranked Norway (856 points) and the fifth ranked United States (855 points) are separated by a single point.

Scotland/Great Britain, Denmark, Japan, Russia and Italy round out the top-ten.

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