The Baden Masters is an annual men's
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 ...
tournament, held in early September/late August in
Baden, Switzerland
Baden (German language, German for "Thermal bath, baths"), sometimes unofficially, to distinguish it from Baden (disambiguation), other Badens, called Baden bei Zürich ("Baden near Zürich") or Baden im Aargau ("Baden in the Aargau"), is a town ...
. It is the first curling tournament of the European
Curling Champions Tour (CCT) season and is part of the
World Curling Tour
The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male, female, and Doubles curling, mixed doubles curlers in the world.
History
The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later ass ...
. It was first held in 2000 and it became a CCT event in 2005.
In 2021, for the first time in the event's twenty-one year history, two women's teams competed alongside the men's field:
2018 Olympic Gold Medalists Team
Anna Hasselborg
Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous hol ...
from
Sweden
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and Team
Irene Schori of
Limmattal
The Limmat Valley (German: ''Limmattal'') is a river valley and a region in the cantons of Zürich and Aargau in Switzerland.
Geography
The Limmat () is a long river located in the cantons of Zürich (ZH) and Aargau (AG). It is the cont ...
,
Switzerland
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.
Past champions
References
External links
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