The 2021 Baden Masters was held from August 20 to 22 at the Curling Club Baden Regio in

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as part of the

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. The event was held in a round-robin format with a purse of 35,000 CHF. It was the first men's event of the 2021–22 curling season. The event category for the event was 500. In the final,

Yannick Schwaller Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva. Career Juniors Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champi ...

and his team from

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defeated the

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rink from

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in a rematch of the 2021 Swiss Men's Curling Championship final. The final also served as a precursor for the 2021 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials which will be held September 22–26 to determine the Swiss team that will represent Switzerland at the

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. To reach the final, Schwaller defeated the 2021 World Champions and reigning Baden Masters champions Team

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from

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5–4 and de Cruz beat the Steffen Walstad rink from

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5–3. Teams Noé Traub,

Joël Retornaz Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022. Retornaz gained sudden renown in It ...

, Yves Stocker and

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all reached the quarterfinals. For the first time in the event's twenty-one year history, two women's teams competed alongside the men's field. Originally, two teams from

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were scheduled to compete, but had to pull out last minute due to the slow vaccination rate in the

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. 2018 Olympic Gold Medalists Team

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from

competed in Pool D and Team Irene Schori of

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competed in Pool B.

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times listed in

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Draw 1

''Friday, August 20, 8:00 am''

Draw 2

''Friday, August 20, 10:30 am''

Draw 3

''Friday, August 20, 1:00 pm''

Draw 4

''Friday, August 20, 4:00 pm''

Draw 5

''Friday, August 20, 6:30 pm''

Draw 6

''Friday, August 20, 9:00 pm''

Draw 7

''Saturday, August 21, 8:00 am''

Draw 8

''Saturday, August 21, 10:30 am''

Draw 9

''Saturday, August 21, 1:45 pm''

Draw 10

''Saturday, August 21, 4:15 pm''

Playoffs

Source:

Quarterfinals

''Saturday, August 21, 8:30 pm''

Semifinals

''Sunday, August 22, 9:00 am''

Final

''Sunday, August 22, 1:30 pm''

References

External links

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