2015 European Curling Championships

2015 European Curling Championships
Host city	Esbjerg, Denmark
Arena	Granly Hockey Arena
Dates	November 20–28
Men's winner	Sweden
Curling club	, Karlstad
Skip	Niklas Edin
Third	Oskar Eriksson
Second	Kristian Lindström
Lead	Christoffer Sundgren
Alternate	Henrik Leek
Finalist	Switzerland (Peter de Cruz)
Women's winner	Russia
Curling club	, Moscow
Skip	Anna Sidorova
Third	Margarita Fomina
Second	Alexandra Raeva
Lead	Nkeirouka Ezekh
Alternate	Alina Kovaleva
Finalist	Scotland (Eve Muirhead)
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Events at the 2015 European Curling Championships
Men's Tournament
	Group A	Group B	Group C
Women's Tournament
	Group A	Group B	Group C
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The 2015 European Curling Championships were held from November 20 to 28 in Esbjerg, Denmark.^[1] Denmark last hosted the European Curling Championships in 1996 in Copenhagen. The Group C competitions were held during October in Champéry, Switzerland.

At the conclusion of the championships, the top eight women's teams went to the 2016 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Swift Current, and the top seven men's teams to the 2016 World Men's Curling Championship in Basel.

Men[]

Group A[]

The Group A competitions were contested at the Granly Hockey Arena in Esbjerg.

Round Robin Standings[]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker
	Teams relegated to 2016 Group B

Final Round Robin Standings

Country	Skip	W	L
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	9	0
Finland	Aku Kauste	5	4
Switzerland	Peter de Cruz	5	4
Sweden	Niklas Edin	5	4
Scotland	Kyle Smith	5	4
Germany	Alexander Baumann	4	5
Russia	Alexey Stukalskiy	4	5
Italy	Joël Retornaz	3	6
Czech Republic		3	6
Netherlands	Jaap van Dorp	2	7

Playoffs[]

	Semifinals					Final
	1	Norway	7
	4	Sweden	8
						4	Sweden	7
						3	Switzerland	6
	2	Finland	4
	3	Switzerland	10

	Bronze Medal Game
	1	Norway	7
	2	Finland	4

Bronze Medal Game[]

Friday, November 27, 19:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	7
Finland (Kauste)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	X	4

Player percentages
Norway		Finland
Håvard Vad Petersson	79%	Janne Pitko	96%
Christoffer Svae	96%	Pauli Jäämies	89%
Torger Nergård	98%	Kasper Hakunti	83%
Thomas Ulsrud	92%	Aku Kauste	84%
Total	91%	Total	86%

Gold Medal Game[]

Saturday, November 27, 10:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Sweden (Edin)	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	7
Switzerland (de Cruz)	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	6

Player percentages
Sweden		Switzerland
Christoffer Sundgren	94%	Valentin Tanner	90%
Kristian Lindström	88%	Peter de Cruz	89%
Oskar Eriksson	91%	Claudio Pätz	85%
Niklas Edin	93%	Benoît Schwarz	93%
Total	92%	Total	89%

Group B[]

The Group B competitions will be contested at the in Esbjerg.

Round Robin standings[]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker
	Teams relegated to 2016 Group C

Final Round Robin Standings Pool A Skip W L  Denmark Rasmus Stjerne 7 0  Lithuania Tadas Vyskupaitis 5 2  Turkey Alican Karataş 4 3  Slovenia 4 3  Hungary György Nagy 3 4  Poland 2 5  Wales 2 5  Belgium 1 6

Final Round Robin Standings Pool B Skip W L  Austria Sebastian Wunderer 6 1  Latvia Ritvars Gulbis 6 1  Israel 4 3  England 4 3  Slovakia 3 4  Spain 3 4  Croatia 2 5  Estonia Martin Lill 0 7

Relegation Round[]

	Relegation Finals					Relegation Semifinals
						A7	Wales	10
						B7	Croatia	4
	B7	Croatia	8
	A8	Belgium	10
						A8	Belgium	6
						B8	Estonia	5

Playoffs[]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

A1

Denmark

10

B2

Latvia

8

B2

Latvia

5

A3

Slovenia

2

A1

Denmark

6

B1

Austria

4

B1

Austria

7

A2

Lithuania

7

B3

Israel

4

B3

Israel

9

	Bronze Medal Game
	B2	Latvia	13
	B3	Israel	3

Bronze Medal Game[]

Friday, November 27, 13:30

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Latvia (Gulbis)	3	1	0	1	4	0	2	2	X	X	13
Israel (Freilich)	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	X	X	3

Gold Medal Game[]

Friday, November 27, 13:30

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	X	6
Austria (Wunderer)	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	X	4

Group C[]

The Group C competitions will be contested at the in Champéry.

Round Robin standings[]

Final Round Robin Standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Country	Skip	W	L
Slovakia		9	1
Slovenia		8	2
France	Wilfrid Coulot	7	3
Ireland		7	3
Serbia		6	4
Bulgaria		5	5
Belarus	Pavel Petrov	5	5
Luxembourg		4	6
Romania		3	7
Iceland		1	9
Andorra		0	10

Playoffs[]

	Second Place Game					Semifinals
						1	Slovakia	1
						2	Slovenia	8
	1	Slovakia	7
	3	France	5
						3	France	5
						4	Ireland	3

Women[]

Group A[]

The Group A competitions were contested at the Granly Hockey Arena in Esbjerg.

Round Robin Standings[]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams relegated to 2016 Group B

Final Round Robin Standings

Country	Skip	W	L
Russia	Anna Sidorova	8	1
Scotland	Eve Muirhead	7	2
Finland	Oona Kauste	6	3
Denmark	Lene Nielsen	6	3
Sweden	Cissi Östlund	5	4
Switzerland	Alina Pätz	4	5
Germany	Daniela Driendl	4	5
Norway	Kristin Skaslien	3	6
Estonia	Maile Mölder	1	8
Hungary	Dorottya Palancsa	1	8

Playoffs[]

	Semifinals					Final
	1	Russia	6
	4	Denmark	5
						1	Russia	6
						2	Scotland	4
	2	Scotland	9
	3	Finland	7

	Bronze Medal Game
	4	Denmark	8
	3	Finland	10

Bronze Medal Game[]

Friday, November 27, 19:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Nielsen)	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	3	0	8
Finland (Kauste)	1	0	1	0	4	0	1	2	0	1	10

Player percentages
Denmark		Finland
Charlotte Clemmensen	90%	Marjo Hippi	80%
	89%	Maija Salmiovirta	88%
Helle Simonsen	94%	Milja Hellsten	68%
Lene Nielsen	85%	Oona Kauste	88%
Total	90%	Total	81%

Gold Medal Game[]

Saturday, November 28, 15:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Russia (Sidorova)	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	6
Scotland (Muirhead)	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4

Player percentages
Russia		Scotland
Nkeiruka Ezekh	93%	Sarah Reid	91%
Alexandra Raeva	93%	Vicki Adams	89%
Margarita Fomina	76%	Anna Sloan	89%
Anna Sidorova	88%	Eve Muirhead	79%
Total	88%	Total	87%

Group B[]

The Group B competitions were contested at the in Esbjerg.

Round Robin Standings[]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker
	Teams relegated to 2016 Group C

Final Round Robin Standings

Country	Skip	W	L
Italy	Federica Apollonio	7	2
Latvia	Evita Regža	7	2
Czech Republic	Anna Kubešková	7	2
England	Anna Fowler	6	3
Turkey	Dilşat Yıldız	6	3
Poland		5	4
Slovakia		3	6
Netherlands		2	7
France	Pauline Jeanneret	1	8
Austria		1	8

Playoffs[]

	Semifinals					Final
	1	Italy	7
	4	England	3
						1	Italy	7
						3	Czech Republic	6
	2	Latvia	5
	3	Czech Republic	7

	Bronze Medal Game
	4	England	7
	2	Latvia	8

Bronze Medal Game[]

Friday, November 27, 13:30

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
England (Fowler)	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	7
Latvia (Regža)	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	8

Gold Medal Game[]

Friday, November 27, 13:30

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Italy (Apollonio)	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	7
Czech Republic (Kubešková)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	6

Group C[]

The Group C competitions were contested at the in Champéry.

Round Robin Standings[]

Final Round Robin Standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Country	Skip	W	L
France	Pauline Jeanneret	6	1
Slovakia		6	1
Belarus		4	3
Ireland		3	4
Spain	Irantzu Garcia	3	4
Slovenia		3	4
Croatia		2	5
Romania		1	6

Playoffs[]

	Second Place Game					Semifinals
						1	France	6
						2	Slovakia	4
	2	Slovakia	7
	4	Ireland	6
						3	Belarus	5
						4	Ireland	7

References[]

General

• "European Curling Championships 2015". World Curling Federation.
• "2015 European Curling Championships C Division". World Curling Federation.

Specific