2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament

2012 European Curling Championships Men's tournament
Host city	Karlstad, Sweden
Arena	Löfbergs Lila Arena Karlstad Curling Club
Dates	December 7–15
Winner	Sweden
Skip	Niklas Edin
Third	Sebastian Kraupp
Second	Fredrik Lindberg
Lead	Viktor Kjäll
Alternate	Oskar Eriksson
Finalist	Norway (Thomas Ulsrud)

2012 European Curling Championships
Tournament
men	Group A   Group B   Group C
women	Group A   Group B   Group C

2012 European Curling Championships
Tournament
men	Group A   Group B   Group C
women	Group A   Group B   Group C

2012 European Curling Championships
Tournament
men	Group A   Group B   Group C
women	Group A   Group B   Group C

2012 European Curling Championships
Tournament
men	Group A   Group B   Group C
women	Group A   Group B   Group C

The men's tournament of the 2012 European Curling Championships was held at the Löfbergs Lila Arena and the Karlstad Curling Club in Karlstad, Sweden from December 7 to 15. The winners of the Group C tournament in Erzurum, Turkey moved on to the Group B tournament. The top eight men's teams at the 2012 European Curling Championships, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Switzerland, Scotland, and Finland, represented their respective nations at the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship in Victoria, British Columbia.

In the Group A competitions, Sweden remained relatively dominant, finishing with only one loss and qualifying for the playoffs, and the Czech Republic, Norway, and Denmark followed. In the page playoffs, Sweden blew past the Czech Republic, and Norway edged past Denmark. In the semifinal, Norway faced the Czech Republic in a rematch of last year's semifinal, and was able to move past them with a 6–4 victory. The bronze medal game saw the Czech Republic, skipped by Jiří Snítil, avenge a loss to Denmark's Rasmus Stjerne in last year's bronze medal game with a huge 12–4 win in eight ends. In the gold medal game, Sweden's Niklas Edin and Norway's Thomas Ulsrud faced off in a rematch of last year's final. Norway, attempting to win a third consecutive title, held an early lead in the fourth end, but the hometown favorite Sweden scored a deuce in the fifth end and stole two more in the sixth end to swing the momentum to their side. The two teams traded deuces in the next two ends, and Sweden clinched the win in the last end with a hit to score one point, wrapping up the game with a score of 8–5.

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