ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE EUROPEAN CURLING FEDERATION

9. 12. 2010

At the today’s Annual General Meeting the European Curling Federation (ECF) confirmed that the European Curling Championships 2011 have been awarded to Russia’s capital Moscow, where they will be held from December 2-10, 2011.

Pending contract signature the European Curling Federation also announced that the European Mixed Curling Championships 2011 and the C-group of the European Curling Championships 2011 will be hosted by Tarnby, Denmark and that the 2012 edition of the European Curling Championships will be hosted by the city of Karlstad, Sweden, 300 kms west of Stockholm.

During the meeting three National Curling Associations were accepted as new ECF members: Armenia, Romania and Slovenia. This raises the number of ECF member nations to 37.

Also, a new ECF Executive Board to serve until 2012 was elected. The previous Executive Board was re-elected with two exceptions: Andras Rokusfalvy, Hungary (representing Eastern Europe) replaces Pawel Kubik from Poland and Hew Chalmers from Scotland (representing Great Britain and Ireland) replaces John Burns from Ireland.

The next ECF General Assembly will take place in Esbjerg, Denmark in March 2011 during the Capital One World Women’s Curling Championships.