National Curling

1. The Arunachal Pradesh Curling team excels with 11 silver medals.
2. Impressive performance at the National Curling Championship 2023-24.
3. Held in Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir.

Itanagar, Jan 09: Arunachal Pradesh’s Curling team has earned accolades for the state, securing an impressive 11 silver medals at the third edition of the National Curling Championship 2023-24 held in Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir.

Expressing his congratulations on social media platform X, Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu commended the team, stating, “Heartiest congratulations to the Curling Team from Arunachal Pradesh for clinching 11 Silver Medals🥈at the third edition of the National Curling Championship 2023-24, held at Gulmarg, Jammu & Kashmir. Your achievements have made us proud. Keep shining.”

Curling, a strategic sport involving the precise sliding of stones across an ice sheet toward a target area, shares similarities with bowls, boules, and shuffleboard.

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The game comprises two teams of four players each, taking turns to slide heavy, polished granite stones, known as ‘rocks,’ toward ‘the house’—a circular target marked on the ice. With each player throwing two stones, the primary objective is to accumulate the highest points in a game.

Points are awarded for stones resting closest to the center of the house at the end of each round or ‘end.’

An end concludes when all stones from both teams have been thrown once. Typically, a game consists of either eight or ten ends.