Curling: EC: Women win second defeat

At the European Championships in St. Moritz, Germany’s women curlers won the European Championships. Gall in the second duel have to accept the second defeat. The team around Skip Daniela Jentsch (feet) lost 5:8 against the favourite Swiss women. The previous day, the German Curling Federation (DCV) had to accept a surprising 10:12 against Hungary.

In the evening, the women’s curlers will once again be in demand against the Czech women’s team, who have also been victorious so far (19:00), and at the moment Germany, together with the Czech Republic and Denmark, is in eighth place. Previously, the men’s team around Skip Alexander Baumann (Schwenningen) will play their third tournament match, also against Switzerland (13 o’ clock). So far, the men have won and lost.

The two German teams not only want to secure their tickets for the 2018 World Cup in Switzerland (at least seventh place each) but also to build up their self-confidence for the Olympic qualification. From the 5th. till 10. The aim of the second round of the Olympic Qualifiers in Pilsen, Czech Republic, on 1 December is to secure one of the two starting positions for the winter games in Pyeongchang after the missing direct qualification via the detour Olympic Qualifier.