2012 World Senior Curling Championships
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The 2012 World Senior Curling Championships
will be held at the Tårnby Curling Club in Tårnby
, Denmark
from April 14 to 21. Tårnby has previously hosted the 2006 World Senior Curling Championships and the 2011 European Mixed Curling Championship
, and is scheduled to host the 2011 European Curling Championships
' Group C competitions and the 2012 European Junior Curling Challenge. For the first time since 2009, the event will not be held in conjunction with the same year's World Mixed Doubles Championship
.
World Senior Curling Championships
The World Senior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring curlers from around the world who are at least 50 years old. Senior curling is quite similar to curling, with the exception of having only 8 ends played instead of 10....
will be held at the Tårnby Curling Club in Tårnby
Tårnby
Tårnby Kommune is a municipality bordering Copenhagen on the island of Amager just south of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality includes the islands of Saltholm and Peberholm, and covers an area of 65 km². It has a total population of 40,214...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
from April 14 to 21. Tårnby has previously hosted the 2006 World Senior Curling Championships and the 2011 European Mixed Curling Championship
2011 European Mixed Curling Championship
The 2011 European Mixed Curling Championship was held from September 30 to October 8 at the Tårnby Curling Club in Tårnby, Denmark. In the final, Switzerland, skipped by Thomas Lips, won their first title after a 9–3 defeat of Germany in seven ends...
, and is scheduled to host the 2011 European Curling Championships
2011 European Curling Championships
-Bronze Medal Game:Friday, December 9, 20:00-Gold Medal Game:Saturday, December 10, 15:00-Group B:The Group B competitions will be contested in Moscow. Sixteen teams, including the teams advancing from the Group C competitions , will be divided into two groups and will compete in a round robin...
' Group C competitions and the 2012 European Junior Curling Challenge. For the first time since 2009, the event will not be held in conjunction with the same year's World Mixed Doubles Championship
2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
The 2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship will be held at the Milli Piyango Curling Hall in Erzurum, Turkey from April 23 to 29. Erzurum previously hosted the 2011 Winter Universiade, when the Milli Piyango Curling Hall was used for the curling competition...
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