Dufour4-5 at 2012 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

Chamonix, France

Fourth
Tony
Angiboust

SKIP
Thomas
Dufour

Second
Lionel
Roux

Lead
Wilfrid
Coulot

Games:	11
Record:	6W - 5L
PF/G:	6.91
PA/G:	7.01
Hammer Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Efficiency:	0.22

Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA) finished 4-5 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dufour lost 11-3 to Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN), droppimg another game, 8-2 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) where Dufour responded with a 7-4 win over Joel Retornaz (Cortina, ITA). Dufour went on to lose 7-4 against Germany's Christopher Bartsch. Dufour lost 8-3 to Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI). Dufour lost 5-2 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) where Dufour responded with a 7-2 win over Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE). Dufour won 9-7 against David Murdoch (Lockerbie, SCO), then won 10-6 against Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT) in their final qualifying round match.

Dufour earned 8.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 14 spots the World Ranking Standings into 63rd place overall with 32.290 total points. Dufour ranks 90th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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