2000 European Curling Championships | |
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Host city | Oberstdorf, Germany |
Arena | Eislaufzentrum |
Dates | December 9–16, 2000 |
Men's winner | Finland |
Skip | Markku Uusipaavalniemi |
Third | Wille Mäkelä |
Second | Tommi Häti |
Lead | Jari Laukkanen |
Alternate | Pekka Saarelainen |
Finalist | Denmark |
Women's winner | Sweden |
Curling club | Umeå CK |
Skip | Elisabet Gustafson |
Third | Katarina Nyberg |
Second | Louise Marmont |
Lead | Elisabeth Persson |
Alternate | Christina Bertrup |
Coach | Jan Strandlund, Stefan Hasselborg |
Finalist | Norway |
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The 2000 European Curling Championships were held in Oberstdorf, Germany from December 9 to 16.
Team | Skip | W | L |
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Finland | Markku Uusipaavalniemi | 9 | 0 |
Denmark | Ulrik Schmidt | 7 | 2 |
Switzerland | Andreas Schwaller | 7 | 2 |
Sweden | Peja Lindholm | 6 | 3 |
Norway | Thomas Ulsrud | 4 | 5 |
Germany | Andy Kapp | 4 | 5 |
France | Dominique Dupont-Roc | 3 | 6 |
Scotland | David Mundell | 3 | 6 |
Netherlands | Christian Dupont-Roc | 1 | 8 |
Luxembourg | Heribert Krämer | 1 | 8 |
Semi-final | Final | ||||||||
1 | Finland | 8 | |||||||
4 | Sweden | 7 | |||||||
1 | Finland | 8 | |||||||
2 | Denmark | 7 | |||||||
3 | Switzerland | 5 | |||||||
2 | Denmark | 6 | Bronze medal | ||||||
4 | Sweden | 10 | |||||||
3 | Switzerland | 7 |
Medal | Team |
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Gold | Finland (Markku Uusipaavalniemi, Wille Mäkelä, Tommi Häti, Jari Laukkanen, and Pekka Saarelainen) |
Silver | Denmark (Ulrik Schmidt, Lasse Lavrsen, Brian Hansen, Carsten Svensgaard, and Frants Gufler) |
Bronze | Sweden (Peja Lindholm, Tomas Nordin, Magnus Swartling, Peter Narup, and Anders Kraupp) |
Team | Skip | W | L |
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Sweden | Elisabet Gustafson | 7 | 0 |
Switzerland | Nadja Heuer | 5 | 2 |
Norway | Dordi Nordby | 5 | 2 |
Germany | Andrea Schöpp | 4 | 3 |
Scotland | Gillian Howard | 3 | 4 |
Denmark | Lene Bidstrup | 3 | 4 |
Russia | Nina Golovtchenko | 1 | 6 |
France | Sandrine Morand | 0 | 7 |
Semi-final | Final | ||||||||
1 | Sweden | 4 | |||||||
4 | Germany | 2 | |||||||
1 | Sweden | 9 | |||||||
3 | Norway | 4 | |||||||
3 | Norway | 6 | |||||||
2 | Switzerland | 5 | Bronze medal | ||||||
4 | Germany | 6 | |||||||
2 | Switzerland | 7 |
Medal | Team |
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Gold | Sweden (Elisabet Gustafson, Katarina Nyberg, Louise Marmont, Elisabeth Persson, and Christina Bertrup) |
Silver | Norway (Dordi Nordby, Hanne Woods, Kristin Tøsse Løvseth, Cecilie Torhaug, and Camilla Holth) |
Bronze | Switzerland (Nadja Heuer, Carmen Küng, Sybil Bachofen, Vera Heuer, and Yvonne Schlunegger) |
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