CHAMPION: De Cruz Wins 2019 Aberdeen International Curling Championship

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

Third
Sven
Michel

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) won 6-5 over Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR) in the Final of the Aberdeen International Curling Championship, held March 14 - 17, 2019 in Aberdeen, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, De Cruz won 5-2 over Ross Paterson (Glasgow, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2019 Aberdeen International Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland; and won 4-3 over Glen Muirhead (Perth, SCO) in the quarterfinals. of the 2019 Aberdeen International Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland;

De Cruz finished 5-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated Walstad 8-2, then won 6-0 against Hamish Gallacher (Dumfries, SCO) and 7-5 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Oslo, NOR). De Cruz won 8-1 against Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER), then won 8-4 against Muirhead in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Aberdeen International Curling Championship Championship title, De Cruz earned 43.934 world rankings points along with the $5,964CDN first prize cheque. De Cruz move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 20.865 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 9th overall with 291.162 total points on the World Ranking Standings. De Cruz ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 291.162 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

2024: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Michael Goodfellow
STIRLING, SCO
2023: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2022: Sixten Totzek
Sixten Totzek, Marc Muskatewitz, Joshua Sutor, Dominik Greindl
Munich, GER
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2019: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2018: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2017: Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie, Blair Fraser, Dave Reid, Duncan Menzies
Dumfries, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO

Quebec's Jean-Michel Menard (Photo: Curling Canada) defeated Japan's Shinya Abe 4-2 to open the Stu Sells Toronto Tankard with a win.

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