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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) — The 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization International Curling Tournament kicked off Saturday in the Chinese border city of Yichun, Heilongjiang Province, a subsidiary area of the China-SCO Winter Sports Demonstration Zone.
The 6-day competition involves 16 teams from China, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The total number of participating athletes exceeds 100 people, according to data from the news platform chinanews.com.
In particular, from the Chinese side, teams from the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, Shanxi and the city of Chongqing have been declared for the tournament, and the Russian side, in addition to the national teams – two women’s and one men’s, is also represented by a team from the Russian University of Sports, the Russian Curling Federation reports.
The tournament is held by the Yichun Municipal People’s Government under the auspices and support of the Winter Sports Management Center of the State Administration of Physical Culture and Sports, the Heilongjiang Provincial Administration of Physical Culture and Sports and the China Curling Federation. -0-