The Red Square Classic and the Moscow Classic are annual bonspiels (curling tournaments) on the men's World Curling Tour (WCT). The Red Square Classic is played outdoors at Red Square,[1] while the Moscow Classic is played at the New League curling club in Moscow, Russia. Both events are held in early February within a week of each other.

The Red Square Classic ran as a solo event from 2014 to 2017. It was replaced by the Moscow Classic in 2018. In 2019, the event returned to Red Square, and in 2020 both events were held for the first time. In 2021, the events were cancelled and replaced by a mixed doubles event.

Past champions

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Year Winning team Runner up team
2014[2]   Alexey Tselousov, Artem Shmakov, Alexey Timofeev, Evgeny Klimov   Brad Gushue, Geoff Walker, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey
2015[3]   Alexander Krushelnitsky, Daniil Goriachev, Vladislav Goncherenko, Ilya Badilin   Craig Brown, Kroy Nernberger, Sean Beighton, Jared Zezel
2016[4]   Aleksandr Kirikov   Sven Michel, Marc Pfister, Enrico Pfister, Simon Gempeler
2017[5]   Marc Pfister, Enrico Pfister, Raphael Märki, Simon Gempeler   Alexander Orlov, Alexander Boyko, Valdislav Goncharenko, Viktor Vorobyev
2018[6]   Jaap van Dorp, Wouter Gosgens, Laurens Hoekman, Carlo Glasbergen   Lukáš Klíma, Jiri Candra, Marek Cernovsky, Jakub Bareš
2019[7]   Sergey Glukhov, Artur Ali, Dmitry Mironov, Anton Kalalb   Alexey Timofeev, Alexey Stukalskiy, Artur Razhabov, Evgeny Klimov
2020 (MC)[8]   Joël Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin   Sixten Totzek, Joshua Sutor, Jan-Lucia Haag, Magnus Sutor
2020 (RS)[9]   Aleksandr Kirikov, Vadim Shkolnikov, Dmitri Abanin, Sergey Morozov   Alexey Timofeev, Sergey Varlamov, Oleg Krasikov, Danil Kiba
2021 Cancelled
2022[10]   Alexei Stukalskiy, Oleg Krasikov, Gleb Lianikov, Danil Kiba   Alexey Timofeev, Artur Ali, Alexei Tuzov, Artur Razhabov

Mixed doubles

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Moscow first held a mixed doubles tour event in December 2019 called the ISS WCT Moscow Mixed Doubles.

Year Winning pair Runner up pair Third place Fourth place
2019[11]   Anastasia Moskaleva / Alexander Eremin   Kristina Dudko / Vladislav Velichko   Daria Morozova /   Daniil Goriachev   Arina Sverzhinskaya /   Vasily Telezhkin
2021[12]   Anna Samoylik /   Mikhail Vaskov   Marta Lo Deserto /   Sergey Glukhov   Diana Gaspari / Joel Retornaz   Alexandra Stoyarosova / Ivan Kazachkov

References

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  1. ^ "Breaking the ice on Red Square: Curling teams preparing for Sochi Olympics". 23 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Lietuvos Kerlingo Asociacija - Livecurling".
  3. ^ CurlingZone
  4. ^ CurlingZone
  5. ^ CurlingZone
  6. ^ CurlingZone
  7. ^ CurlingZone
  8. ^ https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?task=Event&view=Main&eventid=6239
  9. ^ CurlingZone
  10. ^ WCT
  11. ^ https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?task=Event&view=Main&eventid=6275
  12. ^ "MD Moscow Classic - World Curling Tour".