The European Curling Championships have been held every year since 1975. The event is open to men’s and women’s teams from the World Curling Federation’s European Zone and determines qualification for the next World Curling Championships.
Seven teams qualify if the next WCC is being held in the European Zone. Eight teams qualify if the next WCC is in the Americas or the Pacific-Asia Zone.
The Group A event – to be played in the main arena at the Megasport Arena in Moscow - features the top 10 men’s and 10 women’s teams. Group B features a further 10 women’s teams and 16 men’s teams and will be played in the practice hall at Megasport. Two women’s teams and two men’s teams were promoted from Group C following the ECC Group C Qualifiers which were held in Taarnby, Denmark, in September 2011.
The men’s final of the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow was between defending champions Norway, led by Olympic silver medallist Thomas Ulsrud and the 2009 ...MORE
The women’s final at the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow was between unbeaten Sweden and a Scottish team that started the event poorly but kept improving as the ...MORE
Russia’s women won bronze on home territory when they beat Denmark by 13-7 in the bronze-medal play-off at the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow, while the Danish ...MORE
Norway’s men’s team kept their title defence alive when they beat the Czech Republic by 5-2 in the semi-final of the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow. ...MORE
In the Page Play-off session of the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow, the Swedish men recovered from two bad ends to win by 5-4 and move directly to Saturday’s ...MORE
Jiri Snitil and his Czech Republic team emerged victorious from the men’s tie-break sessions at the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow, and now face Denmark in the ...MORE
Although the women’s round-robin section of the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow has now been concluded, the play-off set-up has yet to be finalised, with ...MORE
As the round-robin section of the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 reaches its conclusion in Moscow, the tension grows for every team. ...MORE
The Swedish women became the first team to qualify for the medal stages of the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow when they won their seventh round-robin game, ...MORE
After five sessions of men’s round-robin play in the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow, three teams share the lead, each on four wins – Denmark, Germany and ...MORE
After four sessions of men’s round-robin play at the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow, undefeated Germany lead the rankings. ...MORE
After the third men’s round-robin session in the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow, Germany now are the only unbeaten side. ...MORE
Denmark, Germany and Scotland share the lead, each unbeaten, after the first two rounds of men’s round-robin play in the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 in Moscow. ...MORE
Latvia, making their A Group debut at this year’s Le Gruyère European Curling Championships in Moscow’s Megasport Arena, produced the shock result of the opening round-robin ...MORE
The Russian Federation will host one of the major international curling championship events for the first time when play in the Le Gruyère European Curling Championships 2011 gets underway on ...MORE
