Zou Dejia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Zou Dejia

curler

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1983

Place of Birth: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Profession: curler

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Zou Dejia

  • Zou Dejia (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zou Déjia; born April 7, 1983) is a Chinese curler from Harbin. In 2007, Zou skipped the Chinese team at the 2007 Winter Universiade.
  • The rink finished with a 4–5 record, missing the medal round and placing fifth. Zou's second international event was at the 2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship where he and team mate Li Xue represented China.
  • The pair finished the round robin with a 5–2 record, and won their qualification game against Finland to make the playoffs.
  • However, they lost in the quarter final to Sweden. In 2012, Zou became the skip of the second Chinese team on the World Curling Tour.
  • His first WCT tour event win as a skip came at the 2012 Horizon Laser Vision Center Classic where he beat Brent Gedak in the final.
  • That year Zou became the alternate on the Chinese national team (skipped by Liu Rui), while skipping his own team on the World Curling Tour.
  • While he didn't play in any games in either event, the team won a gold medal at the 2012 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and finished sixth at the 2013 Ford World Men's Curling Championship.
  • The team won another gold medal at the 2013 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and represented China at the 2014 Winter Olympics, finishing in fourth place.
  • The team also played in the 2014 World Men's Curling Championship, placing sixth.
  • Zou played in two games at the Pacific-Asia Championship, but none at the Olympics or Worlds.
  • In 2014, Zou joined the Zang Jialiang team at third.
  • This team would win a gold medal at the 2014 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and place 8th at the 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship.
  • Zou left the team in 2015 to skip his own team.
  • As the skip of the Chinese team, Zou won a silver medal at the 2017 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships.
  • After going 6-2 after the round robin, the team would defeat hosts Australia in the semifinal but would lose to the Koreans in the final.
  • He would skip the Chinese team at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship to a 3-9 record, in 12th place.
  • Zou returned to the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in 2019 with partner Fu Yiwei.
  • The pair went on to finish 19th.

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