Baden Masters

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Baden Masters
Established2000
2024 host city Baden, Switzerland
2024 arena Curling Club Baden Regio
Purse CHF 35,000
2024 champion Flag of Scotland.svg Bruce Mouat
Current edition

The Baden Masters is an annual men's curling tournament, held in early September/late August in Baden, Switzerland. It is the first curling tournament of the European Curling Champions Tour (CCT) season and is part of the World Curling Tour. It was first held in 2000 and it became a CCT event in 2005. [1]

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In 2021, for the first time in the event's twenty-one year history, two women's teams competed alongside the men's field: 2018 Olympic Gold Medalists Team Anna Hasselborg from Sweden and Team Irene Schori of Limmattal, Switzerland. [2]

Past champions

YearWinnerRunner-upPurse (CHF)
2000 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Andreas Schwaller
2002 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Andre Flotron Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Ralph Stöckli 9,500
2003 Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Stock
2004 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Andreas Schwaller, Christof Schwaller, Marco Ramstein, Roland Moser
2005 [3] Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Andreas Schwaller, Andreas Hänni, Thomas Lips, Damian Grichting Flag of Norway.svg Pål Trulsen, Lars Vågberg, Flemming Davanger, Bent Anund Ramsfjell 26,500
2006 [4] Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Kerry Burtnyk, Dan Kammerlock, Richard Daneault, Cory Naharnie Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Andreas Schwaller, Andreas Hänni, Thomas Lips, Damian Grichting 25,000
2007 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Chris Schille, David Noftall Flag of Germany.svg Andy Kapp, Uli Kapp, Andreas Lang, Andreas Kempf 25,000
2008 Flag of Norway.svg Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergård, Christoffer Svae, Jan Thoresen Flag of Scotland.svg David Murdoch, Graeme Connal, Peter Smith, Euan Byers 26,500
2009 [5] Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Ryan Fry, Jamie Korab Flag of Norway.svg Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergård, Christoffer Svae, Håvard Vad Petersson 26,500
2010 [6] Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Toni Müller, Thomas Lips, Remo Schmid, Simon Strübin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Brad Gushue, Randy Ferbey, Mark Nichols, Ryan Fry 26,500
2011 [7] Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Sven Michel, Claudio Pätz, Sandro Trolliet, Simon Gempeler Flag of Scotland.svg Tom Brewster, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow 31,000
2012 [8] Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Sven Michel, Claudio Pätz, Sandro Trolliet, Simon Gempeler Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Peter de Cruz, Benoît Schwarz, Dominik Märki, Valentin Tanner 31,000
2013 [9] Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker Flag of Norway.svg Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergård, Christoffer Svae, Håvard Vad Petersson 32,500
2014 [10] Flag of Norway.svg Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergård, Christoffer Svae, Håvard Vad Petersson Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Benoît Schwarz (Fourth), Peter de Cruz (Skip), Claudio Pätz, Valentin Tanner 31,000
2015 [11] Flag of Sweden.svg Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Kristian Lindström, Christoffer Sundgren Flag of Scotland.svg Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr. 32,500
2016 [12] Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Benoît Schwarz (Fourth), Claudio Pätz, Peter de Cruz (Skip), Valentin Tanner Flag of Norway.svg Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergård, Christoffer Svae, Håvard Vad Petersson 32,500
2017 [13] Flag of Sweden.svg Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wranå, Christoffer Sundgren Flag of Norway.svg Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergård, Christoffer Svae, Håvard Vad Petersson 33,000
2018 [14] Flag of Norway.svg Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergård, Christoffer Svae, Håvard Vad Petersson Flag of Sweden.svg Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wranå, Christoffer Sundgren 33,000
2019 [15] Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Meier, Marcel Käufeler Flag of Sweden.svg Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wranå, Christoffer Sundgren 33,000
2020 [16] [17] Flag of Sweden.svg Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wranå, Christoffer Sundgren Flag of the Netherlands.svg Wouter Gösgens (Fourth), Jaap van Dorp (Skip), Laurens Hoekman, Carlo Glasbergen 33,000
2021 [18] Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Meier, Marcel Käufeler Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Benoît Schwarz (Fourth), Sven Michel, Peter de Cruz (Skip), Valentin Tanner 35,000
2022 [19] Flag of Norway.svg Steffen Walstad, Magnus Nedregotten, Mathias Brænden, Magnus Vågberg Flag of the Netherlands.svg Wouter Gösgens, Laurens Hoekman, Jaap van Dorp, Alexander Magan 35,000
2023 [20] Flag of Italy.svg Joël Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella Flag of Scotland.svg Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall 35,000
2024 [21] Flag of Scotland.svg Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Benoît Schwarz (Fourth), Yannick Schwaller (Skip), Sven Michel, Pablo Lachat 35,000

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