2016 European Curling Championships

2016 European Curling Championships
2016 European Curling Championships
Host city	Braehead, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Arena	Braehead Arena
Dates	November 18–26
Men's winner	Sweden
Curling club	Karlstads CK, Karlstad
Skip	Niklas Edin
Third	Oskar Eriksson
Second	Rasmus Wrana
Lead	Christoffer Sundgren
Finalist	Norway (Thomas Ulsrud)
Women's winner	Russia
Curling club	Adamant CC, Moscow
Skip	Victoria Moiseeva
Third	Uliana Vasileva
Second	Galina Arsenkina
Lead	Julia Guzieva
Alternate	Yulia Portunova
Finalist	Sweden (Anna Hasselborg)
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The 2016 European Curling Championships were held from November 18 to 26 in Braehead, Renfrewshire, Scotland.^[1] Scotland last hosted the European Curling Championships in 2009 in Aberdeen. The Group C competitions will be held in April in Ljubljana, Slovenia.^[2]

At the conclusion of the championships, the top eight women's teams will go to the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship in Beijing, and the top eight men's teams will go to the 2017 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Men

Group A

The Group A competitions will be contested at the Braehead Arena in Renfrewshire.

Round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams relegated to 2017 Group B

Country	Skip	W	L
Sweden	Niklas Edin	8	1
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	6	3
Switzerland	Peter de Cruz	6	3
Russia	Alexey Timofeev	6	3
Germany	Andreas Kapp	4	5
Scotland	Tom Brewster	4	5
Italy	Joel Retornaz	3	6
Austria	Sebastian Wunderer	3	6
Finland	Aku Kauste	3	6
Denmark	Rasmus Stjerne	2	7

Playoffs

Semifinals			Final

1	Sweden	8

4	Russia	5
			1	Sweden	6

			2	Norway	5
2	Norway	7

3	Switzerland	4

Bronze-medal game

4	Russia	6

3	Switzerland	8

Bronze-medal game

Friday, November 25, 19:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russia (Timofeev)	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	6
Switzerland (de Cruz)	2	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	8

Gold-medal game

Saturday, November 26, 15:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Sweden (Edin)	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	6
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	5

Group B

Round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker
	Teams to relegation Playoff

Pool A	Skip	W	L
Czech Republic	Karel Kubeška	6	1
Israel	Adam Freilich	5	2
Slovakia	Juraj Gallo	5	2
Turkey	Alican Karataş	5	2
Wales	Adrian Meikle	4	3
Lithuania	Tadas Vyskupaitis	2	5
France	Jean-Olivier Biechely	1	6
Spain	Lucas Munuera	0	7

Pool B	Skip	W	L
Netherlands	Jaap van Dorp	6	1
Latvia	Ritvars Gulbis	5	2
Hungary	Gergely Szabó	4	3
Poland	Borys Jasiecki	4	3
England	Alan MacDougall	4	3
Belgium	Timothy Verreycken	2	5
Estonia	Martin Lill	2	5
Slovenia	Štefan Sever	1	6

Relegation round


Relegation Finals			Relegation Semifinals



			A7	France	3

			B7	Estonia	7
A7	France	3

B8	Slovenia	6
			A8	Spain	2

			B8	Slovenia	5

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

A1

Czech Republic

8

B2

Latvia

5

A3

Slovakia

9

A3

Slovakia

6

A3

Slovakia

6

B1

Netherlands

7

B1

Netherlands

6

A2

Israel

8

A2

Israel

2

B3

Poland

4

Bronze-medal game

A1	Czech Republic	10

A2	Israel	3

Bronze-medal game

Friday, November 25, 13:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Kubeška)	1	0	4	0	2	0	2	1	X	X	10
Israel (Freilich)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	X	3

Gold-medal game

Friday, November 25, 13:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Slovakia (Gallo)	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	6
Netherlands (van Dorp)	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	1	7

Group C

The Group C competitions will be contested at the Ledena Dvorana Zalog in Ljubljana.

Round-robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Country	Skip	W	L
Estonia	Martin Lill	10	0
France	Jean-Olivier Biechely	7	3
Ireland	Andrew Gilmore	7	3
Bulgaria	Reto Seiler	7	3
Luxembourg	Marc Hansen	6	4
Belarus	Ilya Shalamitski	6	4
Serbia	Đorđe Nešković	5	5
Romania	Stefan Bodea	2	8
Croatia	Robert Mikulandric	2	8
Andorra	Josep Garcia	2	8
Iceland	Andri Magnusson	0	10

Playoffs


Second Place Game			Semifinals



			1	Estonia	7

			2	France	4
2	France	7

3	Ireland	6
			3	Ireland	9

			4	Bulgaria	6

1 vs. 2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Estonia (Lill)	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	0	X	7
France (Biechely)	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	X	4

Winner advances to Group B competitions.
Loser advances to Second Place Game.

3 vs. 4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Ireland (Gilmore)	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	9
Bulgaria (Seiler)	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	6

Winner advances to Second Place Game.

Second Place Game

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
France (Biechely)	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	7
Ireland (Gilmore)	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	6

Winner advances to Group B competitions.

Women

Group A

The Group A competitions will be contested at the Braehead Arena in Renfrewshire.

Round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams relegated to 2017 Group B

Country	Skip	W	L
Scotland	Eve Muirhead	9	0
Sweden	Anna Hasselborg	8	1
Czech Republic	Anna Kubešková	6	3
Russia	Victoria Moiseeva	6	3
Denmark	Lene Nielsen	4	5
Switzerland	Binia Feltscher	4	5
Germany	Daniela Jentsch	4	5
Italy	Federica Apollonio	2	7
Norway	Kristin Skaslien	1	8
Finland	Anne Malmi	1	8

Playoffs

Semifinals			Final

1	Scotland	6

4	Russia	11
			4	Russia	6

			2	Sweden	4
2	Sweden	9

3	Czech Republic	2

Bronze-medal game

1	Scotland	6

3	Czech Republic	2

Bronze-medal game

Friday, November 25, 19:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scotland (Muirhead)	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	X	6
Czech Republic (Kubešková)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	2

Gold-medal game

Saturday, November 26, 10:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russia (Moiseeva)	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	6
Sweden (Hasselborg)	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	4

Group B

Round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker
	Teams relegated to 2017 Group C

Country	Skip	W	L
Hungary	Dorottya Palancsa	8	1
Turkey	Dilşat Yıldız	7	2
Estonia	Maile Mölder	7	2
Netherlands	Marianne Neeleman	5	4
England	Anna Fowler	5	4
Latvia	Santa Blumberga	5	4
Belarus	Alina Pauliuchyk	4	5
Lithuania	Virginija Paulauskaitė	2	7
Slovakia	Elena Axamitová	2	7
Poland	Marta Piuta	0	9

Playoffs

Semifinals			Final

1	Hungary	9

4	Netherlands	8
			1	Hungary	6

			2	Turkey	5
2	Turkey	10

3	Estonia	2

Bronze-medal game

3	Estonia	7

4	Netherlands	5

Bronze-medal game

Friday, November 25, 13:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Estonia (Molder)	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	0	0	1	7
Netherlands (Neeleman)	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	5

Gold-medal game

Friday, November 25, 13:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Hungary (Palancsa)	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	6
Turkey (Yıldız)	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	5

Group C

The Group C competitions were contested at the Ledena Dvorana Zalog in Ljubljana.

Round-robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Country	Skip	W	L
Belarus	Alina Pauliuchyk	7	0
Austria	Constanze Ocker	5	2
Lithuania	Virginija Paulauskaitė	5	2
Spain	Oihane Otaegi	5	2
Croatia	Melani Turkovic	3	4
Slovenia	Nika Cerne	2	5
Ireland	Ailsa Anderson	1	6
Romania	Iulia Ioana Traila	0	7

Playoffs


Second Place Game			Semifinals



			1	Belarus	7

			2	Austria	5
2	Austria	3

3	Lithuania	7
			3	Lithuania	8

			4	Spain	4

1 vs. 2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Belarus (Pavlyuchik)	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	7
Austria (Ocker)	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	5

Winner advances to Group B competitions.
Loser advances to Second Place Game.

3 vs. 4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Lithuania (Paulauskaitė)	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	8
Spain (Otaegi)	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	4

Winner advances to Second Place Game.

Second Place Game

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Austria (Ocker)	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	X	3
Lithuania (Paulauskaitė)	0	1	1	0	0	3	0	2	0	X	7

Winner advances to Group B competitions.

References

General

"2016 European Curling Championships". World Curling Federation.

Specific

^ "Scotland awarded four international curling championships". World Curling Federation. 23 December 2014. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
^ "Slovenia to host first international curling event". World Curling Federation. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

[1] "Scotland awarded four international curling championships". World Curling Federation. 23 December 2014. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

[2] "Slovenia to host first international curling event". World Curling Federation. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

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