The 2023
Euro Super Series is a
curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ...
event among various countries of Europe. It was held from 17 to 27 August at the
National Curling Academy in
Stirling
Stirling (; ; ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in Central Belt, central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town#Scotland, market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the roya ...
, Scotland. The women's event ran from 17 to 20 August with the men's event running from 24 to 27 August. The total purse for the event is
£ 20,000 on both the men's and women's sides.
In the men's event, the reigning world champion
Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in and , four European championsh ...
rink of
Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie (born 27 March 1992 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. He currently plays third on Team Bruce Mouat. With Mouat, Hardie has won gold at the world men's championship in and and has captured four European championship ...
,
Bobby Lammie
Robert "Bobby" Lammie (born 10 February 1997 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler, originally from Stranraer, who now resides in Stirling. He currently plays second on Team Bruce Mouat. With Mouat, Lammie has won gold at the world men's championsh ...
and
Hammy McMillan Jr. won 8–5 over Scottish rivals
Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte (born 31 August 1998 in York, England) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. Skipping his own team, Whyte has won silver at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships and won bronze at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships and ...
. Team Mouat finished 3–1 through the qualifying round before defeating
James Craik
James Craik (; 17276 February 1814) was Physician General (precursor of the Surgeon General of the United States Army, Surgeon General) of the United States Army, as well as George Washington's personal physician and close friend.
Biography ...
in the quarterfinals and
Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce (born 20 July 1995) is a Scottish curler from Kelso. He currently skips his own team out of Stirling.
Career
Bryce has skipped Scotland three times at the World Mixed Curling Championship. He and teammates Katie Murray, Bobby L ...
in the semifinals. The Whyte rink were the top qualifiers with a 4–0 record and scored wins over
Kyle Waddell
Kyle Waddell (born 15 December 1993 in Bellshill) is a Scottish curler from Hamilton, Scotland. He currently skips his own team. In 2018, he competed for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, placing fifth. He ...
and
Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin (born June 11, 1995) is an American curler originally from Southborough, Massachusetts. He currently skips his own team out of Duluth, Minnesota.
Curling career
Juniors
As a junior curler, Dropkin won three United States Juni ...
to qualify for the championship game. Switzerland's
Michael Brunner and Norway's
Lukas Høstmælingen rounded out the eight team playoff round.
In the women's event,
Delaney Strouse led her USA squad of
Anne O'Hara,
Sydney Mullaney
Sydney Mullaney (born May 7, 2001) is an American curler from Concord, Massachusetts. She currently plays second on Team Delaney Strouse. She is a two-time champion of the United States Junior Curling Championships, going on to win the bronze ...
,
Rebecca Rodgers
Rebecca Rodgers (born June 20, 2000, in Ventura, California) is an American curler originally from Leyden, Massachusetts, now living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She currently plays lead on Team Christine McMakin. She won the 2020 United States J ...
and
Susan Dudt to victory, scoring three in the seventh and stealing one in the eighth to clip Italy's
Stefania Constantini
Stefania Constantini (born 15 April 1999) is an Italian curler from Cortina d'Ampezzo. She currently skips the Italian National Women's Curling Team. She has played in five World Women's Championships, four World Mixed Doubles Championships an ...
6–5 in the final. Team Strouse finished 3–1 through the round robin to earn the top seed in their pool and a bye to the semifinals. There, they won 6–3 over Scotland's
Robyn Munro. The Constantini rink finished first through their pool with an undefeated 4–0 record and then won 5–3 over
Marianne Rørvik
Marianne Rørvik (born 2 August 1983) is a Norwegian curler from Oslo. She is the skip of the Norwegian national women's curling team.
Rørvik has played in nine straight (1997–2005) World Junior Curling Championships, winning gold in 2004 p ...
to advance to the final.
Rebecca Morrison
Rebecca Morrison (born 22 August 1996) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. She currently throws fourth stones on her team out of Stirling which is skipped by Sophie Jackson. The team won the 2022 Scottish Curling Championships in Dumfries.
C ...
and
Michèle Jäggi
Michèle Jäggi (born 22 September 1987) is a Swiss curler from Bern. She won gold at the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and won two bronze medals at the Winter Universiade.
Career
Jäggi is a former Swiss junior champion. She fi ...
both lost in the quarterfinals. 2022 Olympic gold medallist
Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the bron ...
spared at third for the Jäggi rink, her first competitive curling competition since the end of the
2021–22 season when she announced her retirement.
Men
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
British Summer Time
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC+00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and eve ...
(
UTC+01:00).
Draw 1
''Thursday, 24 August, 8:30 am''
Draw 2
''Thursday, 24 August, 12:30 pm''
Draw 3
''Thursday, 24 August, 4:30 pm''
Draw 4
''Thursday, 24 August, 8:30 pm''
Draw 5
''Friday, 25 August, 8:30 am''
Draw 6
''Friday, 25 August, 12:30 pm''
Draw 7
''Friday, 25 August, 4:30 pm''
Draw 8
''Friday, 25 August, 8:30 pm''
Draw 9
''Saturday, 26 August, 8:30 am''
Draw 10
''Saturday, 26 August, 12:30 pm''
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
''Saturday, 26 August, 5:00 pm''
Semifinals
''Sunday, 27 August, 8:30 am''
Final
''Sunday, 27 August, 12:30 pm''
Women
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
British Summer Time
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC+00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and eve ...
(
UTC+01:00).
Draw 1
''Thursday, 17 August, 1:30 pm''
Draw 2
''Thursday, 17 August, 6:00 pm''
Draw 3
''Friday, 18 August, 9:00 am''
Draw 4
''Friday, 18 August, 1:30 pm''
Draw 5
''Friday, 18 August, 6:00 pm''
Draw 6
''Saturday, 19 August, 9:00 am''
Draw 7
''Saturday, 19 August, 1:30 pm''
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
''Saturday, 19 August, 6:00 pm''
Semifinals
''Sunday, 20 August, 8:30 am''
Final
''Sunday, 20 August, 12:30 pm''
Notes
References
External links
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International curling competitions hosted by Scotland
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August 2023 sports events in the United Kingdom