Ma Xiuyue
Ma Xiuyue 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 – Men's tournament|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 Curling at the [2013 Winter Universiade|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 2018–19 [Curling World Cup – Third Leg|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 Curling at the 2022 [Winter Olympics – Men's tournament|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.