CC Aarau victoriously defended the European title won a year earlier in Aberdeen in Scotland. The Swiss dominated Anna Hasselborg's Sweden 8-4 in the final of the European Championships on Saturday morning in Lohja, Finland. This is the eighth continental title for Swiss women's curling.
Crowned in 2023 without having lost a single match, skip Silvana Tirinzoni and her teammates Selina Witschonke, Carole Howald and Alina Pätz therefore repeated this feat on Finnish ice. They have now won 22 consecutive matches in the European Championships.
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Fast forward this Saturday morning
The team of Silvana Tirinzoni, quadruple world champion (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) and silver medalist at the 2024 Worlds in Canada, mastered its subject on Saturday in the final in Lohja. A successful deuce in the first end and a “stolen” point in the second allowed him to take the lead from the start (3-0).
The Swiss team hit the nail on the head with two new deuces in the fifth and seventh ends which allowed them to lead 7-2. Sweden gave itself the right to believe in it by recovering to 7-4 but gave up after Alina Pätz secured a last point at the end of the ninth inning.
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The 2026 Olympics in the viewfinder
The next objective of CC Aarau is set for March 2025, with the World Championships planned in South Korea. But Silvana Tirinzoni and Co. already have the Milan/Cortina 2026 Olympic Games in their sights, where they hope to go in search of a first Olympic medal four years after failing to reach the podium in Beijing.
