The women can celebrate in the target team competition

The first medal was won by the South Tyrolean curling athletes on Friday at the European Curling Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania. They won the women in the target team competition. The men had to settle for 6th place.

Karin Prast (Wolfsgruben/Ritten), Marion Huber (Stegen) and Melanie Eder (Mölten) had every reason to celebrate after it was clear that the women's boss Sonja Mulser had perfected the bronze medal in the team ranking of the target competition on the last lane. After Karin Prast with 64 points on lane 1, Marion Huber with a sensational 115 points on lane 2, Melanie Eder with an excellent 86 points on lane 3, Sonja Mulser with 38 points on lane 4 with a total result of 303 points in an extremely exciting competition Won bronze medal. Only Germany were ahead of them with 321 points and Switzerland with a sensational comeback by Bernadette Roelli with 56 points on lane 4. “We met our expectations. For the first time since the 2016 World Championships in Ritten, we won a medal in the team ranking of the target competition. With 303 points we were able to achieve a super number. We could have won the silver medal,” said women’s specialist Sonja Mulser after winning the bronze medal.

Men fall off the medal course In the men's race there was an exciting duel between Austria and Switzerland for the gold medal until the end. The South Tyrolean men were still on course for bronze at halftime. After a mediocre performance from Roman Zublasing (Kaltern) on lane 1, Karl Abfalterer from Luttach brought the “Azzurri” to third place with 100 points on lane 2. The two Teisers Josef Aichner and Hubert Rabanser remained below their capabilities on lane 3 and lane 3. This means they even fell behind Finland and Belarus to 4th place. Austria secured the gold medal with 6 points. Silver went to Switzerland with 331 points, as was the case for women. The Finns first celebrated winning the bronze medal. Afterwards it turned out that the bronze medal did not go to Finland but to Germany with 314 points due to a calculation error. Next medal fixed In the team game, the South Tyrolean men's team has already secured a medal with second place in the preliminary round in the A group. The women, however, took third place in the preliminary round and have to win in the finals against Slovenia on Saturday in order to secure the precious metal.

Both South Tyrolean teams qualified for the finals in the team game. Both teams can still become European champions. However, the women have to win all 3 games to win the European title.

The South Tyrolean men's team won the opening game against Austria 12:6. The men only lost in the second half of the season against Germany – and that was clearly 0:24. They celebrated victories against Russia (30:0), Belarus (24:10), Switzerland (23:5), Slovenia (13:9) and the Czech Republic (16:6).

The women's team had to give way to second place Austria (31 points/grade 3,307) with 2 points only because of the lower grade of 31. There were wins against Finland (4,331:42), Poland (0:34), Belarus (0:24), Switzerland (6:29), France (9:32), Czech Republic (3:20), Russia (6: 33) and Slovenia (3:32). She lost 0:5 against Germany. The score against Austria was 17:13.

Here are the results: Target competition Women, team ranking: 1. Germany 321 points; 2. Switzerland 306; 3. Italy (Karin Prast, Marion Huber, Melanie Eder, Sonja Mulser) 303; 4. Austria 298; 5. Czech Republic 251; 6. Belarus 218; 7. Slovenia 194; 8. Poland 192

Men, team ranking: 1. Austria 331 points; 2. Switzerland 314; 3. Germany 266; 4. Finland 264; 5. Belarus 250; 6. Italy (Roman Zublasing, Karl Abfalterer, Josef Aichner, Hubert Rabanser) 246; 7. Russia 238; 8.Guatemala 225

team game Men, Group A, round trip: 1. Germany 26 points; 2. Italy (Karl Abfalterer, Armin Karadar, Stefan Roalter, Martin Kerschbaumer, Robert Sinner) 22; 3. Austria 20; 4. Switzerland 17; 5. Czech Republic 13; 6. Russia 6; 7. Slovenia 5; 8. Belarus 3. Women, round trip: 1. Germany 37 points; 2. Austria 31/grade 4,331; 3. Italy (Sonja Mulser, Marion Huber, Franziska Knoll, Natalie Schwarz, Sophia Enderle) 31/grade 3,307; 4. Slovenia 24; 5. Switzerland 22; 6. Belarus 21; 7. Poland 17; 8. Finland 15; 9. Czech Republic 12; 10. Russia 6; 11. France 4.

The EM program: Saturday, 16th of March 2019 Final target competition for women and men Team game, final round 1 and 2, men and women Final men and women

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The women can celebrate in the target team competition

The South Tyrolean women won the bronze medal in the team ranking of the target competition at the European Curling Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania. The men finish in 6th place.

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