curling. Swiss curler loses balanced EM final.
Like the women around Skip Silvana Tirinzoni, the men around Skip Yannick Schwaller want to settle for silver at the European Curling Championships in Östersund. They lose the final against Scotland 4:5.
Like the women’s final, the men’s final also ran on a razor’s edge. The Swiss gained a small advantage in the finish with a stolen stone for a 4:3 lead in the 9th end. But in the 10th end, the Scots said with their second house of two, the decisive one.
The Scots around Skip Bruce Mouat, European champions 2018 and 2021, are among the top three teams in the world. This was once again evident in the final after they lost 7-2 to Geneva in the round robin.
For the CC Geneva crew with the young Pablo Lachat from Lausanne, the experienced Bernese Oberlander Sven Michel, Solothurn’s Skip Yannick Schwaller and Geneva’s shotmaker Benoît Schwarz in fourth position, the performance at the European Championships not far from the Arctic Circle is a great success. Because for the team, which changed two positions for the 2022/23 season, it was the first international title fight.
Geneva closed the long-term competition, the round robin over nine parties, with the best percentages of all ten teams. This alone speaks for their efficiency.
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