Tournament details | |
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Host nation | various |
Dates | April - September, 2008 |
Venue(s) | (in 7 host cities) |
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Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Spanish Masters | Goller-Ludwig | Montagnolli-Swoboda | Glesnes-Maaseide |
Austrian Masters | Pohl-Rau | Goller-Ludwig | Arvanity-Karadassiou |
Swiss Masters | Arvanity-Karadassiou | Kuhn-Schwer | Hakedal-Toerlen |
Dutch Masters | Kadijk-Mooren | Banck-Günther | Schwaiger-Schwaiger |
Final | Goller-Ludwig | Hakedal-Torlen | Glesnes-Maaseide |
English Masters | Arvanity-Karadassiou | Nyström-Nyström | Koutroumanidou-Tsiartsiani |
Masters Final | Goller-Ludwig | Schwaiger-Schwaiger | Jursone-Minusa |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Spanish Masters | Nummerdor-Schuil | Herrera-Mesa | Brink-Dieckmann C. |
Austrian Masters | Matysik-Uhmann | Gosch-Horst | Klemperer-Koreng |
Swiss Masters | Matysik-Uhmann | Ces-Ces | Fijalek-Prudel |
Dutch Masters | Matysik-Uhmann | Klemperer-Koreng | Nummerdor-Schuil |
Final | Nummerdor-Schuil | Matysik-Uhmann | Barsouk-Kolodinsky |
English Masters | Nummerdor-Schuil | Heuscher-Heyer | Laciga M.-Schnider |
Masters Final | Nummerdor-Schuil | Klemperer-Koreng | Heuscher-Heyer |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Germany | 7 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
2 | Netherlands | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
3 | Greece | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
4 | Austria | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
5 | Switzerland | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
6 | Norway | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
7 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
10 | Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (12 nations) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |
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