European Curling Championships: Scotland women & men reach finals

Scotland's women followed their male compatriots in reaching the final at the European Curling Championships.

Eve Muirhead's rink will meet Sweden at 09:00 GMT on Saturday and Kyle Smith's men take on their Swedish counterparts later at 14:00 GMT.

Both Scottish teams beat host nation Switzerland in their semi-finals.

Muirhead led a 7-5 win in Friday's afternoon session after Smith's rink earned a 9-8 victory on Thursday evening.

Smith's rink had lost to the Swiss in the round-robin stage but it will be the hosts who contest the men's bronze medal match against Norway on Friday evening, which precedes the women's bronze medal tie between Switzerland and Italy.

Scotland were in control early on after a steal of three points in the second end, but saw their lead reduced to 3-2 before Switzerland's Benoit Schwarz drew his last stone of the fifth end into the house to score three points and level the scores at 5-5.

Smith hit out a Swiss stone to score two points in the sixth end for a 7-5 lead before, in the 10th end, the 25-year-old drew his last stone into the house to score two points and seal a dramatic 9-8 victory.

"That feels absolutely brilliant, we're absolutely delighted," said the Scotland skip.

"We got that early start and stole three, which was huge. We put them under a bit of pressure in the last end and thankfully they didn't make it."

Swedish skip Niklas Edin believes having last-stone advantage in the first end against the Scots could prove decisive.

"We've got the hammer in the final, which is important at this level," he said.

"Other than the one game we lost [to Netherlands], we've had a pretty-much perfect week.

"We've got what it takes, but we've got to deliver one more time."

Men's semi-finals: Scotland 9-8 Switzerland; Sweden 8-3 Norway

Women's semi-finals: Scotland 7-5 Switzerland, Italy 3-7 Sweden

Men: 1 Sweden 8-1, 2 Switzerland 7-2, 3 Scotland 6-3, 4 Norway 6-3, 5 Germany 5-4, 6 Russia 4-5, 7 Netherlands 4-5, 8 Italy 2-7, 9 Austria 1-8, 10 Slovakia 1-8.

Women: 1 Sweden 9-0, 2 Switzerland 7-2, 3 Scotland 7-2, 4 Italy 5-4, 5 Russia 4-5, 6 Germany 3-6, 7 Czech Republic 3-6, 8 Denmark 3-6, 9 Hungary 2-7, 10 Turkey 2-7.

Saturday's finals will be streamed live on the BBC Sport website from 09:00 GMT