# 1979 European Curling Championships

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1979 European Curling Championships Host city Varese, Italy Arena Palaghiaccio Dates November 18–24 Men's winner Scotland Curling club Hamilton & Thornyhill CC, Hamilton Skip Jimmy Waddell Third Willie Frame Second Jim Forrest Lead George Bryan Finalist Sweden (Jan Ullsten) Women's winner Switzerland Curling club Basel-Albeina CC, Basel Skip Gaby Casanova Third Betty Bourquin Second Linda Thommen Lead Rosi Manger Finalist Sweden (Birgitta Törn) « 1978 1980 »

The **1979 [European Curling Championships](/source/European_Curling_Championships)** were held from November 18 to 24 at the Palaghiaccio arena in [Varese](/source/Varese), [Italy](/source/Italy).[1]

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

Team Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Curling club Denmark Per Berg Gert Larsen Jan Hansen Michael Harry Hvidovre CC, Hvidovre England Tony Atherton Frank Kershaw Tony Fraser John D. Kerr France Daniel Paris Serge Ferracani Joel Vantadour Antonio Barca Germany Keith Wendorf Balint von Bery Heino von L'Estocq Peter Fischer-Weppler Munchener EV, Munich Italy Giuseppe Dal Molin Andrea Pavani Giancarlo Valt Enea Pavani CC Tofane, Cortina d’Ampezzo Netherlands Eric Harmsen Robert Harmsen Otto Veening Wim Neeleman Norway Kristian Sørum Eigil Ramsfjell Gunnar Meland Harald Ramsfjell Bygdøy CC, Oslo Scotland Jimmy Waddell Willie Frame Jim Forrest George Bryan Hamilton & Thornyhill CC, Hamilton Sweden Jan Ullsten Anders Thidholm Anders Nilsson Hans Söderström Bertil Timan Härnösands CK, Härnösand Switzerland Karl Grossman Hans Peter Nauer Willi Bless Heinz Meierhofer Wales John Stone David Humphreys Gordon Vickers Peter Hodgkinson

### Round robin

Team A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 A11 W L Place A1 Denmark * 9:7 6:8 1:9 8:2 10:4 6:3 7:9 7:8 3:2 6:9 5 5 6 A2 England 7:9 * 3:9 9:6 4:7 15:1 4:14 5:7 5:11 5:11 9:10 2 8 10 A3 France 8:6 9:3 * 4:9 4:10 7:9 2:9 5:7 7:4 3:10 19:3 4 6 8 A4 Germany 9:1 6:9 9:4 * 4:11 4:11 6:7 6:9 8:6 4:8 8:4 4 6 7 A5 Italy 2:8 7:4 10:4 11:4 * 14:2 6:5 6:5 5:6 3:2 16:3 8 2 2 A6 Netherlands 4:10 1:15 9:7 11:4 2:14 * 6:13 5:13 3:12 4:10 7:8 2 8 11 A7 Norway 3:6 14:4 9:2 7:6 5:6 13:6 * 7:5 5:9 4:5 15:2 6 4 4 A8 Scotland 9:7 7:5 7:5 9:6 5:6 13:5 5:7 * 5:7 9:4 14:1 7 3 3 A9 Sweden 8:7 11:5 4:7 6:8 6:5 12:3 9:5 7:5 * 8:6 9:3 8 2 1 A10 Switzerland 2:3 11:5 10:3 8:4 2:3 10:4 5:4 4:9 6:8 * 8:2 6 4 4 A11 Wales 9:6 10:9 3:19 4:8 3:16 8:7 2:15 1:14 3:9 2:8 * 3 7 9

- Teams to playoffs

- Teams to tiebreaker

#### Tiebreaker

. Norway 11 Switzerland 5

### Playoffs

Semifinals Final 3 Scotland 7 2 Italy 4 Scotland 8 Sweden 7 1 Sweden 8 4 Norway 7

### Final standings

Place Team Skip GP W L Scotland Jimmy Waddell 12 9 3 Sweden Jan Ullsten 12 9 3 Italy Giuseppe Dal Molin 11 8 3 Norway Kristian Sørum 12 7 5 5 Switzerland Karl Grossman 11 6 5 6 Denmark Per Berg 10 5 5 7 Germany Keith Wendorf 10 4 6 8 France Daniel Paris 10 4 6 9 Wales John Stone 10 3 7 10 England Tony Atherton 10 2 8 11 Netherlands Eric Harmsen 10 2 8

## Women's

### Teams

Team Skip Third Second Lead Curling club Denmark Birgitte Jacobsen Jytte Berg Karen Eriksen Karina Blach England Janette Forrest Enid Logan Dorothy Shell Mary Aitchison France Huguette Jullien Suzanne Parodi Jean Albert Sulpice (?)[2] Erna Gay Germany Susi Kiesel Gisela Lunz Hildegard Meier Trudi Benzing Italy Maria-Grazzia Constantini Tea Valt Ann Lacedelli Marina Pavani Norway Ellen Githmark Trine Trulsen Ingvill Githmark Kirsten Vaule Scotland Beth Lindsay Ann McKellar Jeanette Johnston May Taylor Sweden Birgitta Törn Katarina Hultling Susanne Gynning-Ödling Gunilla Bergman Amatörföreningens CK, Stockholm Switzerland Gaby Casanova Betty Bourquin Linda Thommen Rosi Manger Basel-Albeina CC, Basel

### Round robin

Team A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 W L Place A1 Denmark * 8:6 8:7 5:11 4:7 9:5 8:12 1:14 3:14 3 5 7 A2 England 6:8 * 4:12 6:12 9:4 1:15 5:11 4:10 3:13 1 7 9 A3 France 7:8 12:4 * 4:10 11:10 15:12 3:10 7:13 11:4 4 4 4 A4 Germany 11:5 12:6 10:4 * 5:9 6:10 7:11 4:15 8:9 3 5 6 A5 Italy 7:4 4:9 10:11 9:5 * 7:3 3:19 5:11 3:7 3 5 5 A6 Norway 5:9 15:1 12:15 10:6 3:7 * 8:12 5:7 1:12 2 6 8 A7 Scotland 12:8 11:5 10:3 11:7 19:3 12:8 * 3:5 6:13 6 2 3 A8 Sweden 14:1 10:4 13:7 15:4 11:5 7:5 5:3 * 7:5 8 0 1 A9 Switzerland 14:3 13:3 4:11 9:8 7:3 12:1 13:6 5:7 * 6 2 2

- Team to final

- Teams to semifinal

### Playoffs

Semifinal Final 1 Sweden 7 2 Switzerland 5 Switzerland 9 3 Scotland 3

### Final standings

Place Team Skip GP W L Switzerland Gaby Casanova 10 8 2 Sweden Birgitta Törn 9 8 1 Scotland Beth Lindsay 9 6 3 4 France Huguette Jullien 8 4 4 5 Italy Maria-Grazzia Constantini 8 3 5 6 Germany Susi Kiesel 8 3 5 7 Denmark Birgitte Jacobsen 8 3 5 8 Norway Ellen Githmark 8 2 6 9 England Janette Forrest 8 1 7

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Previous competitors and results of the EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS since 1975 | 1979 in VARESE, Italy"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090106133131/http://www.ecf-web.org/uploads/media/ECC_1979_Varese.pdf) (PDF). *ECF*. Archived from [the original](http://www.europeancurling.com/images/stories/uploads/ECC_1979_Varese.pdf) (PDF) on 2009-01-06.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Mistake in WCF results and statistics database, because Jean Albert Sulipice is a **man** competed for France on three World Curling Championships ([1966](/source/1966_World_Men's_Curling_Championship), [1967](/source/1967_World_Men's_Curling_Championship), [1970](/source/1970_World_Men's_Curling_Championship)).

## External links

- [Men's results](http://results.worldcurling.org/Championship/Details/94) from the [World Curling Federation](/source/World_Curling_Federation)

- [Women's results](http://results.worldcurling.org/Championship/Details/222) from the [World Curling Federation](/source/World_Curling_Federation)

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