CHAMPION: Tirinzoni Wins Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

Fourth
Alina
Paetz

SKIP
Silvana
Tirinzoni

Second
Selina
Witschonke

Lead
Carole
Howald

Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) won 6-5 over Stefania Constantini (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA) in the Final of the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships, held November 18 - 25 at the Curl Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Tirinzoni won 8-3 over Marianne Roervik (Lillehammer, NOR) in the semifinals of the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scotland;

Tirinzoni finished 9-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tirinzoni defeated Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN) 12-1, then won 8-4 against Isabella Wrana (Sundbyberg, SWE) and 7-4 against Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR). Tirinzoni won 8-4 against Roervik, then won 8-4 against Anna Kubeskova (Prague, CZE) and 6-5 against Marie Kaldvee (Tallinn, EST). Tirinzoni won 5-2 against Rebecca Morrison (Stirling , SCO), then won 8-6 against Emira Abbes (Fuessen, GER) and 7-2 against Constantini in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships Championship title, Tirinzoni earned 67.500 world rankings points, remaining in 1st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 37.5 after improving upon their best so far this season. Tirinzoni ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 226.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	85	17	0	0.833	29-3	17-2	8-2	2-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	760	664	386	8.74	5.08	3.66	4.95	3.67	1.77	1.38	1.38

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	365	494	44	61	19-0	34-1	94-4	1.35	0.12	0.48	0.10

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	395	170	342	44	4-6	11-13	25-55	0.43	0.87	0.69	0.28

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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