22 November 2025
Two win first day for Denmark and Switzerland at Europeans
The A- Division women’s teams played twice on the opening day of the Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2025. Only two teams — Denmark and Switzerland — managed to complete the day with two wins.
Denmark beat Türkiye by 6-4 in the evening session, but before that, they faced Czechia in their opener.
By the eighth end in this game, the Danes had built an 8-4 lead. Czechia skip Anna Kubeskova attempted a draw shot, but she came up light, and this meant the Czechs gave up a further score of two to hand Denmark a lead of 10-4. Czechia then conceded, securing Denmark their opening 10-4 win.
After her game against Türkiye, Danish skip Madeleine Dupont said, “Two wins? That sounds good, let’s make it nine! That was a hard-fought battle, so I’m very pleased with my team… but I’m also relieved.”
Switzerland faced Sweden in their opener, and as the teams played the ninth end, Switzerland led by 9-5. Swiss skip Corrie Huerlimann then played a further draw-shot to score one more point and win the game by 10-5.
After this win, Huerlimann said, “It feels really amazing. We felt strong when we went on the ice. This is now a really good start, and it’ll give us confidence for the whole week.”
The Swiss then secured their second victory with an 8-4 win over Italy, which they completed when Italy’s skip Stefania Constantini clipped a front guard with her last stone of the tenth end, to give up a steal of two.
Behind these two leaders, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and Türkiye all share the same won one, lost one record, while Czechia and Scotland are still looking for their first wins.
Men’s competition
The men’s teams only had one game on Saturday and newly promoted Poland celebrated their return to the A- Division with a 7-5 win over Denmark, who had also gained promotion from last year’s B- Division.
Other opening session winners were Scotland, who beat defending champions Germany by 8-7 in a re-run of last year’s final; Italy, who beat Norway by 9-4; Switzerland, 8-4 winners over Sweden, and Czechia, who had an 8-7 last stone victory over Austria.
The game between Poland and Denmark was tight until the fifth end, when, with the score tied at 2-2, Poland skip Konrad Stych played a soft-weight nose-hit to score three points and move his team into a 5-2 lead. After this, Poland went on to win by 7-5.
Following their win, Stych said, “For us that was amazing. We knew it was going to be a battle — we’ve played those guys many times before and we knew it would be close, to the last end, to the last stone, so we’re happy we got the win at the end.
“It’s super important for us to beat the teams that we know because we don’t know how tough it will be against the other guys.”
The re-run of last year’s final between Germany and the Scots was tied at 3-3 when Scotland skip Bruce Mouat gave his team the lead, with a draw for one point and a 4-3 scoreline in the fifth end.
In the sixth end, Germany’s skip Marc Muskatewitz played a hit to score two points and secure a 5-4 lead. As the teams played the ninth end, Scotland had the lead again, this time by 6-5. In this end, Germany’s Muskatewitz was looking to score three points but could only manage to score two, re-taking the lead at 7-6. However, in the tenth, the Scots scored two further points when Scotland’s Mouat put his stone through a gap in the guards. Muskatewitz could not match this, and the Scots scored two points for an 8-7 win without having to play their last stone.
Switzerland were up against Sweden, the reigning Olympic champions.
The Swedes had taken an early 2-0 lead when in the fourth end, Switzerland’s fourth Benoit Schwarz-van Berkel played a draw to score three points and give his team a 3-2 lead. After this, the Swiss went on to win by 8-4.
After this game, Switzerland skip, Yannick Schwaller, said, “We tried to keep calm and stay in the game. We knew we had to pick it up and that’s what we did — we’re happy that we pulled it off and out-played them. It’s going to be a long week, we just need to stay positive and if we can do the same again, we will be there at the end”.
Italy faced Norway in this session. By the eighth end, Italy led by 7-2 when Norway skip Magnus Ramsfjell drew his final stone into position to score two points and reduce the Italian lead to 7-4. However, in the ninth end, Italy regained control, with skip Joel Retornaz playing a take-out to score two points and improve his lead to 9-4. Norway then conceded, to give the Italians an opening win.
By the seventh end of their game against Austria, Czechia led by 4-2. But then, Austria skip Mathias Genner played a soft-weight nose-hit to score four points and move into a 6-4 lead. However, the Czechs fought back and their final score of one in the tenth end secured an 8-7 win.
B- Division
In the early stages of the women’s B- Division competition, Austria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and Poland all opened with wins.
In the men’s event, Estonia lead Group B with two wins, beating France by 8-6 and then Ukraine by 10-3. In Group A, four teams — Belgium, Spain, Finland and Slovakia — all end the day with one win.
All A-Division games will be broadcast on the Curling Channel, however, there may be restrictions due to broadcast partner agreements.
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