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Ma Xiuyue (Chinese: 马秀玥; pinyin: Mǎ Xiùyuè; born May 21, 1991) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. He currently skips the Chinese men's curling team. He won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and represented China at the 2022 Winter Olympics, skipping the men's curling team.

Career

Ma represented China twice at the World Junior Curling Championships in 2011 and 2012. On both occasions, his team finished with a 4–5 record. Also in 2011 and 2012, Ma won back-to-back Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships.

Ma skipped the Chinese team at the 2013 Winter Universiade. Representing the Harbin Institute of Physical Education, his team finished in ninth with a 2–7 record.

In 2015, Ma was the alternate on the Chinese team skipped by Zang Jialiang at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. The team finished the round robin in second place with a 6–1 record before dropping their semifinal match to South Korea's Kim Soo-hyuk. They rebounded against New Zealand's Peter de Boer to claim the bronze medal. Ma next represented China internationally at the third leg of the Curling World Cup event. There, he skipped his team of Ling Zhi, Cheng Kuo and Wang Jingyuan to a 1–5 record.

After taking a few seasons off, Ma returned to curling when he was appointed as skip of the Chinese men's team for the 2022 Winter Olympics, held in Beijing. His team consisted of Zou Qiang, Wang Zhiyu, Xu Jingtao and Jiang Dongxu. Despite not playing a single international competition before the Games, the team fared quite well, finishing the round robin with a 4–5 record. This included defeating higher-seeded teams such as Switzerland's Peter de Cruz, Norway's Steffen Walstad, and Italy's Joël Retornaz. Ultimately, they finished in a four-way tie for fifth place; however, their head to head wins over Switzerland and Norway placed them alone in fifth place at the end of the competition.

Teams

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate
2010–11	Huang Jihui	Ma Yongjun	Wang Linbo	Ma Xiuyue	Zhang Rongrui
2011–12	Ma Xiuyue	Xiao Shicheng	Jiang Dongxu	Shao Zhilin	Zhang Zhongbao
2012–13	Ma Xiuyue	Ma Yanlong	Xiao Shicheng	Wang Jinbo	Pan Jiaqi
2016–17	Ma Xiuyue	Wang Jinbo	Wang Jingyuan	Zhang Tianyu	Shao Zhilin
2017–18	Ma Xiuyue	Ma Yanlong	Wang Jinbo	Wang Jingyuan
2018–19	Ma Xiuyue	Jiang Dongxu	Ling Zhi	Wang Jingyuan
2021–22	Ma Xiuyue	Zou Qiang	Wang Zhiyu	Xu Jingtao	Jiang Dongxu
2022–23	Ma Xiuyue	Cheng Kuo	Yuan Mingjie	Nan Jiawen
2023–24	Ma Xiuyue	Zou Qiang	Wang Zhiyu	Tian Jiafeng

References

"Xiuyue Ma Profile". World Curling Federation. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
"Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships 2012". World Curling Federation. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
"XXVI. Winter Universiade 2013". World Curling Federation. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
Alina Pavlyuchik (November 14, 2015). "Korea men take Gold at PACC 2015; Japan and Korea qualify for Women's Worlds". World Curling Federation. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
"Spotlight turns to team curling at the Olympic Winter Games". World Curling Federation. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
"Great Britain in good form after win over ROC". World Curling Federation. February 16, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
"XXIV. Olympic Winter Games 2022". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
"Ma Xiuyue Past Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved January 25, 2022.

External links

Ma Xiuyue at World Curling
Ma Xiuyue at Olympics.com
Ma Xiuyue at Olympedia
Ma Xiuyue at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)

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