Ben Smith

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Gender: 
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Type Played Gold Silver Bronze Best finish Games Wins Losses
WCC 2 0 0 0 13 24 1 23
WMDCC 2 0 0 0 9 19 9 10
WJCC 2 0 0 0 6 18 7 11
PCCC 3 0 0 0 5 21 9 12
WJBCC 4 1 0 0 1 29 15 14
POQE 1 0 0 1 3 8 6 2
WMDQE 1 1 0 0 1 9 8 1
YOG 2 0 0 0 13 8 1 7
OQE 1 0 0 0 7 7 2 5
  18 2 0 1   143 58 85

World Curling Championships

Year Association Ranking Position Personal Record Club
2023 Flag for New Zealand 13 3 1 - 11 -
  KOR 2-8, CZE 1-8, CAN 2-8, NOR 2-9, JPN 5-10, ITA 3-8, GER 11-8, SUI 5-7, TUR 5-8, SWE 1-7, USA 3-8, SCO 4-10
2024 Flag for New Zealand 13 3 0 - 12 -
  NOR 5-9, CZE 4-7, JPN 3-8, SCO 2-8, CAN 4-7, SWE 7-11, SUI 3-8, GER 2-9, ITA 4-10, KOR 2-5, USA 4-10, NED 5-7

World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships

Year Association Ranking Position Personal Record Club
2025 Flag for New Zealand 9 M 5 - 4 -
  EST 4-8, ESP 13-5, USA 2-10, NOR 6-10, JPN 6-3, TUR 8-5, SUI 8-7, CZE 7-5, AUS 5-7
2026 Flag for New Zealand 15 M 4 - 6 -
  SWE 3-12, NED 8-9, EST 4-8, DEN 4-11, FRA 9-6, NOR 6-5, JPN 1-11, AUS 4-10, CHN 10-4, R:FIN 8-1

World Junior Curling Championships

Year Association Ranking Position Personal Record Club
2019 Flag for New Zealand 6 3 4 - 5 -
  ITA 5-4, SWE 7-5, NOR 6-7, GER 6-5, SCO 2-6, SUI 5-7, USA 3-8, CHN 6-4, CAN 1-12
2020 Flag for New Zealand 8 3 3 - 6 -
  RUS 8-7, GER 2-7, NOR 9-4, SUI 7-4, SCO 4-8, CAN 1-7, SWE 2-6, ITA 5-7, USA 2-8

Pan Continental Curling Championships

Year Association Ranking Position Personal Record Club
2022 Flag for New Zealand 5 3 3 - 4 -
  AUS 6-5, KOR 3-10, BRA 13-3, TPE 6-3, USA 2-6, CAN 5-10, JPN 5-9
2023 Flag for New Zealand 5 3 4 - 3 -
  AUS 8-6, CAN 2-8, GUY 11-1, TPE 10-3, JPN 4-6, KOR 8-5, USA 2-7
2024 Flag for New Zealand 7 2 2 - 5 -
  USA 2-10, CHN 5-7, CAN 5-10, KOR 9-1, AUS 6-8, JPN 1-9, TPE 13-3

World Junior "B" Curling Championships

Year Association Ranking Position Personal Record Club
2016 Flag for New Zealand 16 2 2 - 4 -
  GER 3-9, LAT 3-8, POL 5-8, LTU 7-4, KOR 4-5, JPN 1-4, HKG 9-2
2017 Flag for New Zealand 16 2 1 - 4 -
  TUR 2-6, JPN 2-5, POL 5-10, FRA 5-2, FIN 6-5, GER 4-7, HKG 14-7
2018 Flag for New Zealand 5 2 4 - 4 -
  TUR 5-4, KAZ 5-2, DEN 7-4, NED 4-6, POL 6-4, JPN 3-6, HUN 3-5, QF:RUS 4-7
2019 Flag for New Zealand 1 3 8 - 2 -
  FIN 6-5, SLO 6-7, CHN 2-5, TUR 4-3, KAZ 8-2, AUS 7-4, JPN 4-1, QF:RUS 6-4, SF:CHN 6-5, F:ITA 8-4

Pre-Olympic Qualifying Event

Year Association Ranking Position Personal Record Club
2025 Flag for New Zealand 3 2 6 - 2 -
  AUS 8-1, POL 9-8, PHI 5-6, AUT 8-5, TPE 10-3, DEN 11-4, B:DEN 7-1, S:POL 6-7

World Mixed Doubles Qualification Event

Year Association Ranking Position Personal Record Club
2024 Flag for New Zealand 1 M 8 - 1 -
  PUR 13-1, PHI 7-4, LTU 13-4, FIN 7-5, POL 6-9, IND 11-1, UKR 9-3, QG:LAT 9-7, QG:TUR 7-1

Youth Olympic Games

Year Association Ranking Position Personal Record Club
2016 Flag for New Zealand 13 2 1 - 6 -
  RUS 5-7, ITA 2-7, TUR 5-13, SUI 4-9, USA 3-10, JPN 7-5, CHN 5-6
2016 Flag for New Zealand 17 M 0 - 1 -
  L32:OLY (23) 1-8

Olympic Qualifying Event

Year Association Ranking Position Personal Record Club
2025 Flag for New Zealand 7 2 2 - 5 -
  PHI 2-6, KOR 7-6, NED 4-7, CHN 2-7, USA 5-6, JPN 3-7, POL 10-8

Opponent Wins Losses
Australia 4 3
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2019 WJBCC 6 Matthew Neilson Mitchell Thomas 7 - 4
2022 PCCC 2 Anton Hood Jay Merchant 6 - 5
2023 PCCC 2 Anton Hood Jay Merchant 8 - 6
2024 PCCC 9 Anton Hood Hugh Millikin 6 - 8
2025 WMDCC 18 - - 5 - 7
2025 POQE 1 Anton Hood Hugh Millikin 8 - 1
2026 WMDCC 15 - - 4 - 10
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  4  -  3
Austria 1 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2025 POQE 5 Anton Hood Mathias Genner 8 - 5
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  0
Brazil 1 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2022 PCCC 7 Anton Hood Marcelo Cabral de Mello 13 - 3
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  0
Canada 0 7
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2019 WJCC 9 Matthew Neilson Tyler Tardi 1 - 12
2020 WJCC 6 Matthew Neilson Jacques Gauthier 1 - 7
2022 PCCC 13 Anton Hood Brad Gushue 5 - 10
2023 WCC 4 Anton Hood Brad Gushue 2 - 8
2023 PCCC 4 Anton Hood Brad Gushue 2 - 8
2024 WCC 9 Anton Hood Brad Gushue 4 - 7
2024 PCCC 5 Anton Hood Brad Gushue 5 - 10
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  0  -  7
China 3 4
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 YOG 7 Matthew Neilson Yu Han 5 - 6
2019 WJBCC 3 Matthew Neilson Weihaoping Wang 2 - 5
2019 WJBCC SF Matthew Neilson Weihaoping Wang 6 - 5
2019 WJCC 8 Matthew Neilson Weihaoping Wang 6 - 4
2024 PCCC 3 Anton Hood Xiaoming Xu 5 - 7
2025 OQE 8 Anton Hood Xiaoming Xu 2 - 7
2026 WMDCC 17 - - 10 - 4
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  1  -  0 Other:  2  -  4
Chinese Taipei 4 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2022 PCCC 9 Anton Hood Randolph Shen 6 - 3
2023 PCCC 8 Anton Hood Randolph Shen 10 - 3
2024 PCCC 13 Anton Hood Ken Hsu 13 - 3
2025 POQE 6 Anton Hood Ting-Li Lin 10 - 3
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  4  -  0
Czechia 1 2
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2023 WCC 2 Anton Hood Lukas Klima 1 - 8
2024 WCC 4 Anton Hood Lukas Klima 4 - 7
2025 WMDCC 16 - - 7 - 5
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  2
Denmark 3 1
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2018 WJBCC 4 Simon Neilson Simon Haubjerg 7 - 4
2025 POQE 7 Anton Hood Jacob Schmidt 11 - 4
2025 POQE B Anton Hood Jacob Schmidt 7 - 1
2026 WMDCC 7 - - 4 - 11
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  1  -  0 Other:  2  -  1
Estonia 0 2
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2025 WMDCC 2 - - 4 - 8
2026 WMDCC 5 - - 4 - 8
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  0  -  2
Finland 3 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2019 WJBCC 1 Matthew Neilson Melker Lundberg 6 - 5
2024 WMDQE 8 - - 7 - 5
2026 WMDCC R - - 8 - 1
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  3  -  0
France 1 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2026 WMDCC 9 - - 9 - 6
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  0
Germany 2 4
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 WJBCC 1 Simon Neilson Marc Muskatewitz 3 - 9
2017 WJBCC 6 Simon Neilson Marc Muskatewitz 4 - 7
2019 WJCC 4 Matthew Neilson Sixten Totzek 6 - 5
2020 WJCC 2 Matthew Neilson Sixten Totzek 2 - 7
2023 WCC 12 Anton Hood Sixten Totzek 11 - 8
2024 WCC 13 Anton Hood Marc Muskatewitz 2 - 9
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  2  -  4
Guyana 1 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2023 PCCC 6 Anton Hood Rayad Husain 11 - 1
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  0
Hong Kong, China 2 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 WJBCC 7 Simon Neilson Jeffrey Choi 9 - 2
2017 WJBCC 7 Simon Neilson - 14 - 7
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  2  -  0
Hungary 0 1
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2018 WJBCC 9 Simon Neilson Daniel Kalocsay 3 - 5
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  0  -  1
India 1 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2024 WMDQE 12 - - 11 - 1
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  0
Italy 2 4
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 YOG 2 Matthew Neilson Luca Rizzolli 2 - 7
2019 WJBCC F Matthew Neilson Luca Rizzolli 8 - 4
2019 WJCC 1 Matthew Neilson Luca Rizzolli 5 - 4
2020 WJCC 8 Matthew Neilson Giacomo Colli 5 - 7
2023 WCC 11 Anton Hood Joel Retornaz 3 - 8
2024 WCC 15 Anton Hood Joel Retornaz 4 - 10
Finals:  1  -  0 Playoffs:  1  -  0 Other:  1  -  4
Japan 3 10
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 WJBCC 6 Simon Neilson Kei Kamada 1 - 4
2016 YOG 6 Matthew Neilson Kota Ito 7 - 5
2017 WJBCC 2 Matthew Neilson Kanya Shimizuno 2 - 5
2018 WJBCC 8 Simon Neilson Kei Kamada 3 - 6
2019 WJBCC 7 Matthew Neilson Kei Kamada 4 - 1
2022 PCCC 15 Anton Hood Riku Yanagisawa 5 - 9
2023 WCC 9 Anton Hood Riku Yanagisawa 5 - 10
2023 PCCC 10 Anton Hood Riku Yanagisawa 4 - 6
2024 WCC 5 Anton Hood Shinya Abe 3 - 8
2024 PCCC 11 Anton Hood Shinya Abe 1 - 9
2025 WMDCC 10 - - 6 - 3
2025 OQE 12 Anton Hood Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi 3 - 7
2026 WMDCC 13 - - 1 - 11
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  3  -  10
Kazakhstan 2 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2018 WJBCC 3 Simon Neilson Joan Akhmad 5 - 2
2019 WJBCC 5 Matthew Neilson Dinislam Aimishev 8 - 2
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  2  -  0
Korea 3 4
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 WJBCC 5 Simon Neilson Ki Jeong Lee 4 - 5
2022 PCCC 5 Anton Hood Byeong Jin Jeong 3 - 10
2023 WCC 1 Anton Hood Byeong Jin Jeong 2 - 8
2023 PCCC 12 Anton Hood Jong-Duk Park 8 - 5
2024 WCC 17 Anton Hood Jong-Duk Park 2 - 5
2024 PCCC 7 Anton Hood Jaebeom Lee 9 - 1
2025 OQE 4 Anton Hood Soo-Hyuk Kim 7 - 6
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  3  -  4
Latvia 1 1
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 WJBCC 2 Simon Neilson Janis Bremanis 3 - 8
2024 WMDQE QG - - 9 - 7
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  1  -  0 Other:  0  -  1
Lithuania 2 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 WJBCC 4 Simon Neilson Matas Cepulis 7 - 4
2024 WMDQE 6 - - 13 - 4
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  2  -  0
Netherlands 0 4
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2018 WJBCC 5 Simon Neilson - 4 - 6
2024 WCC 20 Anton Hood Wouter Gösgens 5 - 7
2025 OQE 6 Anton Hood Wouter Gösgens 4 - 7
2026 WMDCC 3 - - 8 - 9
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  0  -  4
Norway 2 4
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2019 WJCC 3 Matthew Neilson Magnus Ramsfjell 6 - 7
2020 WJCC 3 Matthew Neilson Eirik Øy 9 - 4
2023 WCC 7 Anton Hood Magnus Ramsfjell 2 - 9
2024 WCC 2 Anton Hood Magnus Ramsfjell 5 - 9
2025 WMDCC 8 - - 6 - 10
2026 WMDCC 11 - - 6 - 5
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  2  -  4
Philippines 1 2
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2024 WMDQE 4 - - 7 - 4
2025 POQE 3 Anton Hood Marc Pfister 5 - 6
2025 OQE 2 Anton Hood Marc Pfister 2 - 6
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  2
Poland 3 3
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2017 WJBCC 3 Matthew Neilson Konrad Stych 5 - 10
2018 WJBCC 6 Simon Neilson Krzysztof Swiatek 6 - 4
2024 WMDQE 10 - - 6 - 9
2025 POQE 2 Anton Hood Konrad Stych 9 - 8
2025 POQE S Anton Hood Konrad Stych 6 - 7
2025 OQE 14 Anton Hood Konrad Stych 10 - 8
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  1 Other:  3  -  2
Puerto Rico 1 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2024 WMDQE 2 - - 13 - 1
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  0
Russia 2 2
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 YOG 1 Matthew Neilson Nadezhda Karelina 5 - 7
2018 WJBCC QF Simon Neilson Aleksandr Bystrov 4 - 7
2019 WJBCC QF Matthew Neilson German Doronin 6 - 4
2020 WJCC 1 Matthew Neilson Andrey Dudov 8 - 7
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  1  -  1 Other:  1  -  1
Scotland 0 4
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2019 WJCC 5 Matthew Neilson Ross Whyte 2 - 6
2020 WJCC 5 Matthew Neilson James Craik 4 - 8
2023 WCC 20 Anton Hood Bruce Mouat 4 - 10
2024 WCC 7 Anton Hood Bruce Mouat 2 - 8
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  0  -  4
Slovenia 0 1
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2019 WJBCC 2 Matthew Neilson Stefan Sever 6 - 7
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  0  -  1
Spain 1 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2025 WMDCC 4 - - 13 - 5
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  0
Sweden 1 4
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2019 WJCC 2 Matthew Neilson Daniel Berggren 7 - 5
2020 WJCC 7 Matthew Neilson Daniel Magnusson 2 - 6
2023 WCC 17 Anton Hood Niklas Edin 1 - 7
2024 WCC 10 Anton Hood Niklas Edin 7 - 11
2026 WMDCC 1 - - 3 - 12
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  4
Switzerland 2 4
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 YOG 4 Matthew Neilson Selina Witschonke 4 - 9
2019 WJCC 6 Matthew Neilson Marco Hösli 5 - 7
2020 WJCC 4 Matthew Neilson Yves Wagenseil 7 - 4
2023 WCC 14 Anton Hood Yannick Schwaller 5 - 7
2024 WCC 12 Anton Hood Yannick Schwaller 3 - 8
2025 WMDCC 14 - - 8 - 7
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  2  -  4
Türkiye 4 3
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 YOG 3 Matthew Neilson Oguzhan Karakurt 5 - 13
2017 WJBCC 1 Matthew Neilson Ugurcan Karagoz 2 - 6
2018 WJBCC 1 Simon Neilson Oguzhan Karakurt 5 - 4
2019 WJBCC 5 Matthew Neilson Oguzhan Karakurt 4 - 3
2023 WCC 15 Anton Hood Ugurcan Karagoz 5 - 8
2024 WMDQE QG - - 7 - 1
2025 WMDCC 12 - - 8 - 5
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  1  -  0 Other:  3  -  3
Ukraine 1 0
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2024 WMDQE 14 - - 9 - 3
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  1  -  0
United States of America 0 10
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 YOG 5 Matthew Neilson Luc Violette 3 - 10
2019 WJCC 7 Matthew Neilson Andrew Stopera 3 - 8
2020 WJCC 9 Matthew Neilson Luc Violette 2 - 8
2022 PCCC 11 Anton Hood Korey Dropkin 2 - 6
2023 WCC 19 Anton Hood John Shuster 3 - 8
2023 PCCC 14 Anton Hood Andrew Stopera 2 - 7
2024 WCC 18 Anton Hood John Shuster 4 - 10
2024 PCCC 1 Anton Hood John Shuster 2 - 10
2025 WMDCC 6 - - 2 - 10
2025 OQE 10 Anton Hood Daniel Casper 5 - 6
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  0 Other:  0  -  10
Youth Olympic Team 0 1
 
Year Tournament Draw Team Opponent Score
2016 YOG L32 - - 1 - 8
Finals:  0  -  0 Playoffs:  0  -  1 Other:  0  -  0

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