{{Short description|none}} {{Infobox curling | Name = 1979 European Curling Championships | Logo = | Size = | Host city = [[Varese]], [[Italy]] | Arena = Palaghiaccio | Dates = November 18–24 | Men's winner = '''{{SCO}}''' | Curling club = Hamilton & Thornyhill CC, [[Hamilton, South Lanarkshire|Hamilton]] | Skip = [[Jimmy Waddell]] | Third = [[Willie Frame]] | Second = [[Jim Forrest (curler)|Jim Forrest]] | Lead = [[George Bryan (curler)|George Bryan]] | Finalist = {{SWE}} ([[Jan Ullsten]]) | Women's winner = '''{{SUI}}''' | Curling club2 = Basel-Albeina CC, [[Basel]] | Skip2 = [[Gaby Casanova]] | Third2 = [[Betty Bourquin]] | Second2 = [[Linda Thommen]] | Lead2 = [[Rosi Manger]] | Finalist2 = {{SWE}} ([[Birgitta Törn]]) | prev = {{EuCC|1978}} | next = {{EuCC|1980}} }}
The '''1979 [[European Curling Championships]]''' were held from November 18 to 24 at the Palaghiaccio arena in [[Varese]], [[Italy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.europeancurling.com/images/stories/uploads/ECC_1979_Varese.pdf |title=Previous competitors and results of the EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS since 1975 {{!}} 1979 in VARESE, Italy |website=ECF |lang=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106133131/http://www.ecf-web.org/uploads/media/ECC_1979_Varese.pdf |archive-date=2009-01-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The Scottish men's team won their first European title, and the Swiss women's team won their first European title.
For the first time, the men's team of Wales took part in the European Championship.
==Men's==
===Teams=== {| class="wikitable" ! Team !! Skip !! Third !! Second !! Lead !! Alternate !! Curling club |- | {{DEN}} || [[Per Berg]] || [[Gert Larsen]] || [[Jan Hansen (curler)|Jan Hansen]] || [[Michael Harry]] || || Hvidovre CC, [[Hvidovre]] |- | {{ENG}} || [[Tony Atherton]] || [[Frank Kershaw (curler)|Frank Kershaw]] || [[Tony Fraser (curler)|Tony Fraser]] || [[John D. Kerr]] || || |- | {{FRA}} || [[Daniel Paris (curler)|Daniel Paris]] || [[Serge Ferracani]] || [[Joel Vantadour]] || [[Antonio Barca]] || || |- | {{GER}} || [[Keith Wendorf]] || [[Balint von Bery]] || [[Heino von L'Estocq]] || [[Peter Fischer-Weppler]] || || Munchener EV, [[Munich]] |- | {{ITA}} || [[Giuseppe Dal Molin]] || [[Andrea Pavani]] || [[Giancarlo Valt]] || [[Enea Pavani]] || || CC Tofane, [[Cortina d’Ampezzo]] |- | {{NED}} || [[Eric Harmsen]] || [[Robert Harmsen]] || [[Otto Veening]] || [[Wim Neeleman]] || || |- | {{NOR}} || [[Kristian Sørum]] || [[Eigil Ramsfjell]] || [[Gunnar Meland]] || [[Harald Ramsfjell]] || || Bygdøy CC, [[Oslo]] |- | {{SCO}} || [[Jimmy Waddell]] || [[Willie Frame]] || [[Jim Forrest (curler)|Jim Forrest]] || [[George Bryan (curler)|George Bryan]] || || Hamilton & Thornyhill CC, [[Hamilton, South Lanarkshire|Hamilton]] |- | {{SWE}} || [[Jan Ullsten]] || [[Anders Thidholm]] || [[Anders Nilsson (curler)|Anders Nilsson]] || [[Hans Söderström]] || [[Bertil Timan]] || Härnösands CK, [[Härnösand]] |- | {{SUI}} || [[Karl Grossman (curler)|Karl Grossman]] || [[Hans Peter Nauer]] || [[Willi Bless]] || [[Heinz Meierhofer]] || || |- | {{WAL}} || [[John Stone (curler)|John Stone]] || [[David Humphreys (curler)|David Humphreys]] || [[Gordon Vickers]] || [[Peter Hodgkinson (curler)|Peter Hodgkinson]] || || |}
===Round robin=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; |- ! !width="120"| Team !width="25"| A1 !width="25"| A2 !width="25"| A3 !width="25"| A4 !width="25"| A5 !width="25"| A6 !width="25"| A7 !width="25"| A8 !width="25"| A9 !width="25"| A10 !width="25"| A11 !width="30"| W !width="30"| L !Place |- |A1 ||align="left|{{DEN}} || * || 9:7|| 6:8|| 1:9|| 8:2||10:4|| 6:3|| 7:9|| 7:8|| 3:2|| 6:9|| 5 || 5 ||'''6''' |- |A2 ||align="left|{{ENG}} || 7:9|| * || 3:9|| 9:6|| 4:7||15:1||4:14|| 5:7||5:11||5:11||9:10|| 2 || 8 ||'''10''' |- |A3 ||align="left|{{FRA}} || 8:6|| 9:3|| * || 4:9||4:10|| 7:9|| 2:9|| 5:7|| 7:4||3:10||19:3|| 4 || 6 ||'''8''' |- |A4 ||align="left|{{GER}} || 9:1|| 6:9|| 9:4|| * ||4:11||4:11|| 6:7|| 6:9|| 8:6|| 4:8|| 8:4|| 4 || 6 ||'''7''' |- bgcolor="#ffffcc" |A5 ||align="left|{{ITA}} || 2:8|| 7:4||10:4||11:4|| * ||14:2|| 6:5|| 6:5|| 5:6|| 3:2||16:3|| 8 || 2 ||'''2''' |- |A6 ||align="left|{{NED}} ||4:10||1:15|| 9:7||11:4||2:14|| * ||6:13||5:13||3:12||4:10|| 7:8|| 2 || 8 ||'''11''' |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" |A7 ||align="left|{{NOR}} || 3:6||14:4|| 9:2|| 7:6|| 5:6||13:6|| * || 7:5|| 5:9|| 4:5||15:2|| 6 || 4 ||'''4''' |- bgcolor="#ffffcc" |A8 ||align="left|{{SCO}} || 9:7|| 7:5|| 7:5|| 9:6|| 5:6||13:5|| 5:7|| * || 5:7|| 9:4||14:1|| 7 || 3 ||'''3''' |- bgcolor="#ffffcc" |A9 ||align="left|{{SWE}} || 8:7||11:5|| 4:7|| 6:8|| 6:5||12:3|| 9:5|| 7:5|| * || 8:6|| 9:3|| 8 || 2 ||'''1''' |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" |A10||align="left|{{SUI}} || 2:3||11:5||10:3|| 8:4|| 2:3||10:4|| 5:4|| 4:9|| 6:8|| * || 8:2|| 6 || 4 ||'''4''' |- |A11||align="left|{{WAL}} || 9:6||10:9||3:19|| 4:8||3:16|| 8:7||2:15||1:14|| 3:9|| 2:8|| * || 3 || 7 ||'''9''' |} : {{colorbox|#ffffcc}} Teams to playoffs : {{colorbox|#ccffcc}} Teams to tiebreaker
====Tiebreaker==== {{2TeamBracket | RD1= .
| RD1-seed1= | RD1-team1= '''{{NOR}}''' | RD1-score1= '''11''' | RD1-seed2= | RD1-team2= {{SUI}} | RD1-score2= 5 }}
===Playoffs=== {{4TeamBracket | RD1= Semifinals | RD2= Final
| RD1-seed1= 3 | RD1-team1= '''{{SCO}}''' | RD1-score1= '''7''' | RD1-seed2= 2 | RD1-team2= {{ITA}} | RD1-score2= 4
| RD1-seed3= 1 | RD1-team3= '''{{SWE}}''' | RD1-score3= '''8''' | RD1-seed4= 4 | RD1-team4= {{NOR}} | RD1-score4= 7
| RD2-seed1= | RD2-team1= '''{{SCO}}''' | RD2-score1= '''8''' | RD2-seed2= | RD2-team2= {{SWE}} | RD2-score2= 7 }}
===Final standings=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; ! Place !! Team !! Skip !width="25"|GP !width="25"|W !width="25"|L |- bgcolor="#ffffcc" | {{gold1}} ||align=left|{{SCO}} ||align=left|[[Jimmy Waddell]] || 12 || 9 || 3 |- | {{silver2}} ||align=left|{{SWE}} ||align=left|[[Jan Ullsten]] || 12 || 9 || 3 |- | {{bronze3}} ||align=left|{{ITA}} ||align=left|[[Giuseppe Dal Molin]] || 11 || 8 || 3 |- | {{bronze3}} ||align=left|{{NOR}} ||align=left|[[Kristian Sørum]] || 12 || 7 || 5 |- | 5 ||align=left|{{SUI}} ||align=left|[[Karl Grossman (curler)|Karl Grossman]] || 11 || 6 || 5 |- | 6 ||align=left|{{DEN}} ||align=left|[[Per Berg]] || 10 || 5 || 5 |- | 7 ||align=left|{{GER}} ||align=left|[[Keith Wendorf]] || 10 || 4 || 6 |- | 8 ||align=left|{{FRA}} ||align=left|[[Daniel Paris (curler)|Daniel Paris]] || 10 || 4 || 6 |- | 9 ||align=left|{{WAL}} ||align=left|[[John Stone (curler)|John Stone]] || 10 || 3 || 7 |- | 10 ||align=left|{{ENG}} ||align=left|[[Tony Atherton]] || 10 || 2 || 8 |- | 11 ||align=left|{{NED}} ||align=left|[[Eric Harmsen]] || 10 || 2 || 8 |}
==Women's==
===Teams=== {| class="wikitable" ! Team !! Skip !! Third !! Second !! Lead !! Curling club |- | {{DEN}} || [[Birgitte Jacobsen]] || [[Jytte Berg]] || [[Karen Eriksen]] || [[Karina Blach]] || |- | {{ENG}} || [[Janette Forrest]] || [[Enid Logan]] || [[Dorothy Shell]] || [[Mary Aitchison]] || |- | {{FRA}} || [[Huguette Jullien]] || [[Suzanne Parodi]] || [[Jean Albert Sulpice]] (?)<ref>Mistake in WCF results and statistics database, because Jean Albert Sulipice is a '''man''' competed for France on three World Curling Championships ({{WMCC|1966}}, {{WMCC|1967}}, {{WMCC|1970}}).</ref> || [[Erna Gay]] || |- | {{GER}} || [[Susi Kiesel]] || [[Gisela Lunz]] || [[Hildegard Meier]] || [[Trudi Benzing]] || |- | {{ITA}} || [[Maria-Grazzia Constantini]] || [[Tea Valt]] || [[Ann Lacedelli]] || [[Marina Pavani]] || |- | {{NOR}} || [[Ellen Githmark]] || [[Trine Trulsen]] || [[Ingvill Githmark]] || [[Kirsten Vaule]] || |- | {{SCO}} || [[Beth Lindsay]] || [[Ann McKellar]] || [[Jeanette Johnston]] || [[May Taylor]] || |- | {{SWE}} || [[Birgitta Törn]] || [[Katarina Hultling]] || [[Susanne Gynning-Ödling]] || [[Gunilla Bergman]] || Amatörföreningens CK, [[Stockholm]] |- | {{SUI}} || [[Gaby Casanova]] || [[Betty Bourquin]] || [[Linda Thommen]] || [[Rosi Manger]] || Basel-Albeina CC, [[Basel]] |}
===Round robin=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; |- ! !width="120"| Team !width="25"| A1 !width="25"| A2 !width="25"| A3 !width="25"| A4 !width="25"| A5 !width="25"| A6 !width="25"| A7 !width="25"| A8 !width="25"| A9 !width="30"| W !width="30"| L !Place |- |A1 ||align="left|{{DEN}} || * || 8:6|| 8:7||5:11|| 4:7|| 9:5||8:12||1:14||3:14|| 3 || 5 ||'''7''' |- |A2 ||align="left|{{ENG}} || 6:8|| * ||4:12||6:12|| 9:4||1:15||5:11||4:10||3:13|| 1 || 7 ||'''9''' |- |A3 ||align="left|{{FRA}} || 7:8||12:4|| * ||4:10||11:10||15:12||3:10||7:13||11:4|| 4 || 4 ||'''4''' |- |A4 ||align="left|{{GER}} ||11:5||12:6||10:4|| * || 5:9||6:10||7:11||4:15|| 8:9|| 3 || 5 ||'''6''' |- |A5 ||align="left|{{ITA}} || 7:4|| 4:9||10:11|| 9:5|| * || 7:3||3:19||5:11|| 3:7|| 3 || 5 ||'''5''' |- |A6 ||align="left|{{NOR}} || 5:9||15:1||12:15||10:6|| 3:7|| * ||8:12|| 5:7||1:12|| 2 || 6 ||'''8''' |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" |A7 ||align="left|{{SCO}} ||12:8||11:5||10:3||11:7||19:3||12:8|| * || 3:5||6:13|| 6 || 2 ||'''3''' |- bgcolor="#ffffcc" |A8 ||align="left|{{SWE}} ||14:1||10:4||13:7||15:4||11:5|| 7:5|| 5:3|| * || 7:5|| 8 || 0 ||'''1''' |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" |A9 ||align="left|{{SUI}} ||14:3||13:3||4:11|| 9:8|| 7:3||12:1||13:6|| 5:7|| * || 6 || 2 ||'''2''' |} : {{colorbox|#ffffcc}} Team to final : {{colorbox|#ccffcc}} Teams to semifinal
===Playoffs=== {{3TeamBracket | RD1= Semifinal | RD2= Final
| RD1-seed1= 2 | RD1-team1= '''{{SUI}}''' | RD1-score1= '''5''' | RD1-seed2= 3 | RD1-team2= {{SCO}} | RD1-score2= 3
| RD2-seed1= 1 | RD2-team1= {{SWE}} | RD2-score1= 7 | RD2-seed2= | RD2-team2= '''{{SUI}}''' | RD2-score2= '''9''' }}
===Final standings=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; ! Place !! Team !! Skip !width="25"|GP !width="25"|W !width="25"|L |- bgcolor="#ffffcc" | {{gold1}} ||align=left|{{SUI}} ||align=left|[[Gaby Casanova]] || 10 || 8 || 2 |- | {{silver2}} ||align=left|{{SWE}} ||align=left|[[Birgitta Törn]] || 9 || 8 || 1 |- | {{bronze3}} ||align=left|{{SCO}} ||align=left|[[Beth Lindsay]] || 9 || 6 || 3 |- | 4 ||align=left|{{FRA}} ||align=left|[[Huguette Jullien]] || 8 || 4 || 4 |- | 5 ||align=left|{{ITA}} ||align=left|[[Maria-Grazzia Constantini]] || 8 || 3 || 5 |- | 6 ||align=left|{{GER}} ||align=left|[[Susi Kiesel]] || 8 || 3 || 5 |- | 7 ||align=left|{{DEN}} ||align=left|[[Birgitte Jacobsen]] || 8 || 3 || 5 |- | 8 ||align=left|{{NOR}} ||align=left|[[Ellen Githmark]] || 8 || 2 || 6 |- | 9 ||align=left|{{ENG}} ||align=left|[[Janette Forrest]] || 8 || 1 || 7 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{WCFevent|94|M}} {{WCFevent|222|W}}
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