28 November 2025
Switzerland women and Scotland men win European bronze
Both bronze medals were decided in Friday’s play at the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships, with Switzerland women and Scotland men coming out on top.
Women’s bronze medal game
Switzerland faced Norway in Friday afternoon’s women’s bronze medal game.
In the third end, the score was 0-0 until Swiss skip Corrie Huerlimann had a chance to hit for four points. However, she could not keep her stone in play and scored only three, giving her team a 3-0 lead.
In the fourth end, Norway’s fourth player Kristin Skaslien played a draw to open her team’s scoring, and reduce the Swiss lead to 3-2.
In the fifth end, Switzerland’s Huerlimann played an angle raise take-out to score another two points and improve the Swiss lead to 5-2.
By the ninth end, Switzerland led by 8-3 and when Norway’s Skaslien played a hit on a Swiss stone to score one point and reduce the Swiss lead to 8-4, Norway conceded, handing Switzerland the bronze medals.
Afterwards, Switzerland’s Huerlimann said, “It feels amazing. I cannot have wished for a better Europeans to start with, it’s amazing.
“There’s always pressure when you play for your country, but we just tried to have a fun week, have fun together on the ice, and I think we did that pretty well.”
The bronze medal winning Swiss team are: skip Corrie Huerlimann, third Marina Loertscher, second Stefanie Berset, lead Celine Schwizgebel and alternate Melina Bezzola, supported by coach Janet Huerlimann.
Men’s bronze medal game
The men’s bronze medal game, between Italy and Scotland, was staged after the women’s game.
Italy opened with a single-point steal but then, in the fourth end, with the Scots ahead by 2-1, Italy skip Joel Retornaz missed his final draw and gave the Scots a steal of one point that let them build their lead to 3-1.
In the sixth end, the Scots led by 3-2 when their skip Bruce Mouat executed a triple take-out to score three points and build his team’s lead to 6-2.
In the seventh end, Italy’s Retornaz played a nose-hit to remove a Scottish stone for one point, reducing Scotland’s lead to 6-3. However, in the eighth, Scotland’s Mouat hit a straightforward hit for three points, extending the lead to 9-3. Italy then conceded.
After this game, Bruce Mouat said, “We’ve had a good week, but we didn’t have our best game in the semi-final. We knew we were playing well, so we re-grouped and decided we wanted to come away this week with something to show for it.
“We’re very happy with where we are. We dominated the round-robin, but we need to make sure that we’re doing that in every game, rather than in ten out of the eleven.”
The bronze medal winning Scottish team are: skip Bruce Mouat, third Grant Hardie, second Bobby Lammie, lead Hammy McMillan and alternate Kyle Waddell, supported by coach Michael Goodfellow.
B- Division
In the women’s B- Division, Austria and England joined already-qualified Latvia and Estonia in the semi-final roster after both teams won their final round-robin session. Austria beat Slovenia 11-5, while England beat Estonia 8-5.
This means that top-ranked Latvia will play fourth-placed England in the semi-finals, while second-ranked Estonia will play third-placed Austria.
In the men’s B- Division, all six play-off qualifiers have now been determined.
Group A winners Belgium and Group B winners Türkiye now go straight to the semi-finals, while England, ranked second in Group B, will face Finland, third in Group A, in one qualification game. The other qualification game will see Spain, ranked second in Group A, up against Ukraine, third in Group B.
Both A- Division finals will be broadcast on the Curling Channel, however, there may be restrictions due to broadcast partner agreements.
Follow the live scores and results here.
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