Chaloner clinches it for England
Ian McKenzie reports from Boblingen
on a dramatic men's final ...

Chris Walker recovers from the party
to report on a fantastic win for England

England Retain European Titles In Contrasting Styles
England successfully defended the men's and women's titles in the European Team Championships, but did so in contrasting styles. Whilst the women's team cruised to a 3-0 victory over sixth seeds Scotland without conceding a single game, the men survived one of the most dramatic finals on record, twice coming from behind to draw 2-2 against second seeds France, and claim victory only after an 8-7 countback on games.

England's women are celebrating a remarkable unbeaten record in the European  Championships since 1978, while England's men clinched their tenth successive title and the 27th since the inaugural men's competition in 1973.

Campion leads England to win #25
Beachill stems the French tide

Stage 2 Men    Stage 2 Women

Results page from Boblingen

Final Placings - Men:

1  England
2  France
3  Wales
4  Netherlands
5  Scotland
6  Germany
7  Finland
8  Switzerland
9  Ireland
10 Sweden
11 Spain
12 Italy
13 Denmark
14 Belgium
15 Czech Republic
16 Austria
17 Slovenia
18 Hungary
19 Norway
20 Russia
21 Bulgaria

1  England
2  Scotland
3  Germany
4  Denmark
5  Belgium
6  Netherlands
7  France
8  Wales
9  Ireland
10 Switzerland
11 Spain
12 Austria
13 Slovakia
14 Sweden
15 Italy

Men's final:
[1] ENGLAND 2 [2] FRANCE 2  (England win 8-7 on games countback) (Del Harris lost to Jean-Michel Arcucci 9-2 9-3 5-9 3-9 2-9; Lee Beachill bt Gregory Gaultier 3-9 9-2 9-5 9-4; Chris Walker lost to Thierry Lincou 4-9 5-9 9-10; Mark Chaloner bt Renan Lavigne 9-0 10-8 9-0)
Women's final:
[1] ENGLAND 3 [6] SCOTLAND 0  (Stephanie Brind bt Wendy Maitland 9-2 10-8 9-0; Cassie Campion bt Pamela Nimmo 9-7 9-5 9-2; Linda Charman-Smith bt Senga Macfie 9-6 9-4)

    Men's 3rd place play-off:
[4] WALES 4 [7] NETHERLANDS 0 (Scott Fitzgerald bt Gabor Marges 9-3 9-2 9-4; Gavin Jones bt Marc Reus 5-9 9-4 9-7 9-0; David Evans bt Tommy Berden 9-2 9-2; Alex Gough bt Lucas Buit 9-2 4-9 9-0 8-10 9-4)
    Men's 5th place play-off:
[12] SCOTLAND 3 [6] GERMANY 1  (David Heath bt Lars Osthoff 9-2 9-7 9-1; Neil Frankland lost to Edgar Schneider 4-9 9-4 2-9 5-9; John White bt Simon Frenz 9-1 9-3 4-9 10-8; Martin Heath bt Stefan Leifels 9-3 9-2 9-0)
    Men's 7th place play-off:
[3] FINLAND 3 [9] SWITZERLAND 1  (Tatu Murronmaa bt Marco Eggenberger 2-9 3-9 9-3 9-6 9-3; Petri Laaksonen lost to Marco Daetwyler 9-4 3-9 2-9 0-9; Olli Tuominen bt Lars Harms 9-1 10-8 9-0; Juha Raumolin bt Andre Holderegger 9-1 9-5 9-0)
    Men's 9th place play-off:
[14] IRELAND 4 [5] SWEDEN 0  (Patrick Foster bt Johan Jungling 3-9 9-3 9-7 9-3; Steve Richardson bt Ola Jangbecker 9-3 9-1 6-9 9-5; Derek Ryan bt Daniel Forslund 9-7 9-0 9-0; Liam Kenny bt Christian Drakenberg 9-5 9-1 3-9 9-3)
    Men's 11th place play-off:
[10] SPAIN 3 [8] ITALY 1  (Alex Garbi bt Matteo Vaccari 9-3 9-1 9-7; Iago Cornes bt Andrea Torricini 9-4 9-6 9-7; Oriol Salvia lost to Andrea Capella 5-9 1-9 1-9; Borja Golan bt Francesco Busi 10-8 9-1 9-3)
    Men's 13th place play-off:
[13] DENMARK 2 [15] BELGIUM 2  (Denmark win 8-7 on games countback) (Danny Knudson bt Olivier van Heghe 9-2 9-6 8-10 9-4; Mads Korsbjerg lost to Steve Dries 9-0 1-9 8-9 9-4 4-9; Mikkel Korsbjerg lost to Peter Pastijn 4-9 3-9 1-9; Michael Hansen bt Cedric Sadin 9-1 9-1 9-0)
    Men's 15th place play-off:
[18] CZECH REPUBLIC 3 [11] AUSTRIA 1  (Martin Dzur bt Jakob Dirnberger 9-6 9-2 9-7; Martin Stepan lost to Michael Gruber 2-9 7-9 9-6 9-7 1-9; Jan Koukal bt Leopold Czaska 7-9 9-8 9-0 9-0; Milos Pokorny bt Andreas Fuchs 9-4 9-7 9-2)
    Men's 17th place play-off:
[17] SLOVENIA 2 [20] HUNGARY 2  (Slovenia win 8-6 on games countback) (Goran Vuckovic bt Gergely Joo 9-3 9-1 9-2; Damir Bezan bt Robert Erdosi 9-3 9-0 9-2; Gasper Fecur lost to Andras Torok 5-9 2-9 1-9; Klemen Gutman lost to Mark Krajcsak 1-9 10-9 2-9 10-8 6-9)
    Men's 19th place play-off:
[19] NORWAY 4 RUSSIA 0  (Chris Petter Haukedal bt Serguei Kostrykine 9-3 9-5 9-0; Hans Olav Torgersen bt Maxim Shokin 9-0 9-0 9-0; Morten Mandt bt Alexei Severinov 9-3 9-2 9-1; Raymond Pettersen bt Pavel Sergueev 9-0 9-0 9-0)
    21st place: BULGARIA

    Women's 3rd place play-off:
[5] GERMANY 2 [2] DENMARK 1  (Kathrin Rohrmüller lost to Line Hansen 7-9 9-10 9-5 4-9; Sabine Tillman bt Ellen Petersen 10-8 9-7 2-9 9-3; Karin Beriere bt Julie Dorn Jensen 9-5 9-3 9-3)
    Women's 5th place play-off:
[9] BELGIUM 2 [4] NETHERLANDS 1  (Katline Cauwels bt Daphne A. Jelgersma 9-1 9-4 9-7; Sil Schrijvels bt Milja Dorenbos 9-5 9-2 9-1; Kim Hannes lost to Vanessa Atkinson 7-9 1-9)
    Women's 7th place play-off:
[7] FRANCE 2 [11] WALES 1  (Corinne Castets bt Karen Hargreaves 3-9 9-3 9-0 9-3; Laurence Bois bt Hayley James 9-3 9-3 9-0; Isabelle Stoehr lost to Tegwen Malik 4-9 6-9)
    Women's 9th place play-off:
[8] IRELAND 2 [3] SWITZERLAND 1  (Aisling Blake lost to Olivia Hauser 6-9 9-2 1-9 8-10; Anna McGeever bt Gabi Hegi 9-3 9-0 9-1; Madeline Perry bt Manuela Zehnder 7-9 9-5 9-1 9-1)
    Women's 11th place play-off:
[10] SPAIN 2 [13] AUSTRIA 1  (Laia Sans bt Ines Gradnitzer 9-1 3-9 9-0 9-10 9-1; Stela Carbonell lost to Birgit Coufal 9-7 1-9 9-10 1-9; Elisabet Sado bt Pamela Pancis 9-4 2-9 9-1 9-6)
    Women's 13th place: [15] SLOVAKIA
    Women's 14th place: SWEDEN
    Women's 15th place: [14] ITALY