The World Wheelchair Curling Tour arrived in Scotland to run the first International Mixed Doubles Wheelchair Curling Event. The Peak Sports Village in Stirling was the host for this prestigious event from the 5th -7th July.
Teams from England, Estonia, Russia, Canada, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Slovakia, Finland and hosts Scotland competed in two groups on a round robin basis. Scotland represented by Aileen Neilson and Michael McCreadie and Finland represented by Markku Karjalainen and Sari Karjalainen both emerged from the group stages unbeaten setting up an exciting prospect for the gold medal match. Group runners up Andrey Meshcheryakov and Alexandra Chechetkina from Russia and Rado Ďuriš and Monika Kunkelová from Slovakia would play for the bronze medal.
In the final match Scotland got off to a good start with a shot in the first end but the Finnish pair powered back to take the inaugural title and gold medal by 9-1. The bronze medal was awarded to the team from Slovakia who emerged at 9-4 winners against Russia.
Our congratulations go to Aileen and Michael on a fantastic silver medal against the strongest nations in the world.