The World Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring the world's best curlers who are 21 years old or younger. The competition for both men and women occur at the same venue. The men's tournament has occurred since 1975 and the women's 1988. Curling is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy polished granite stones which they slide down the ice towards a target area called the house. ...
There is also a "B" tournament where the bottom 2 teams are demoted to and the top two teams of which are promoted.
Outdoor curling was very popular in Scotland between the 16th and the 19th centuries when the climate was cold enough to ensure good ice conditions every winter, and is home to the international governing body for curling, the WorldCurling Federation, based in Perth, Scotland.
Curling is the provincial sport of Saskatchewan, home of one of the most famous curlers, the late Sandra Schmirler, who led her team to the first ever gold medal in women's curling in the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Still, curling survives as a people's sport, returning to the Winter Olympics in 1998 with men's and women's tournaments after not having been on the official Olympic program since 1924 (that year's curling competition, for men only, was confirmed as official by the IOC in 2006).
The Star Choice WorldJuniorCurlingChampionships in Östersund, Sweden 1999 is the 25th WorldJuniorChampionship since the start in 1975.
A group of five men sitting in the lounge of the East YorkCurling Club in suburban Toronto in Canada is credited with the original idea in 1967 that led to the birth of the WorldJuniorCurlingChampionships.
The inaugural WJCC, sponsored by Uniroyal Ltd., was staged at its birthplace, the East YorkCurling Club, in the spring of 1975.
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