2003 Wheelchair Curling Championships

London, Ontario's Chris Daw has been the skip to beat as the 2003
Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championships completed the four team
double round robin stage at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling
Club. The Daw rink, with three silver medalists from the inaugural
World Championship held in Switzerland in 2002, eased to a 5 and 1
record, and will play Kelowna's Gerry Austgarden, who defeated felllow
BC skip Jim Shannon in a tie-breaker, after overcoming a 0-3 round
robin deficit.

With the advantage of home ice and his international experience, Daw
is favoured to win the gold but BC's Austgarden's confidence must be
high having blanked Daw 8-0 without the hammer in Draw 5, . The ice
has been reported as keen though straight

The final will be held Saturday November 15th at 3 PM eastern. In the
consolation game BC's Shannon plays Ontario's Gregory for the bronze.

The gold medalists will become Team Canada and represent their country
at the World Wheelchair Championships in Switzerland next January.

Full results can be seen at

http://wheelchaircurling.com

If you would like to know more about wheelchair curling, which will be
a paralymppic sport at the winter games in Turin in 2006, or would
like to explore adding wheelchair curling to your local club, you can
contact CurlBC and CurlOntario.  There is a Yahoo group called
Wheelchaircurling, as well as established programmes in several
Canadian communities. I'll be happy to share whatever information I
have.

Eric Eales
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