Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) won 8-4 over Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta. of the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta; Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) won 8-4 over Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta. De Cruz lost
6-5 to
Kevin Koe (Calgary, CAN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta;
De Cruz finished 9-3 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated
Magnus Ramsfjell (Oslo, NOR) 10-4, then won
5-4 against
Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) and
9-7 against
Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). De Cruz won
7-6 against
Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED), then won
9-6 against
Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER) and
7-4 against
John Shuster (Duluth, USA). De Cruz went on to lose
9-4 against
Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). De Cruz responded with a
11-2 win over
SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR). De Cruz went on to lose
6-5 against
Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). De Cruz responded with a
6-5 win over
Matsumura. De Cruz went on to lose
10-3 against
Koe. De Cruz responded with a
8-4 win over
Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship, De Cruz earn
51.648 world rankings points. De Cruz move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 27.831 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 8th overall with
318.993 total points on the
World Ranking Standings. De Cruz ranks 8th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
318.993 points earned so far this season.
