Bronze for Brunner at Karuizawa International

SKIP
Michael
Brunner

Third
Anthony
Petoud

Second
Romano
Keller-Meier

Lead
Andreas
Gerlach

Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) won 7-3 over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan. of the Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan; Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) won 7-3 over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan. Brunner lost 8-6 to Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Brunner finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brunner defeated Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) 6-2, then went on to lose 5-4 against Abe. Brunner responded with a 6-5 win over Joel Retornaz (Cembra, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Karuizawa International, Brunner earn 21.250 world rankings points and 2334CDN. For week 20 of the event schedule, Brunner did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Brunner ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	39	37	0	0.513	5-3	4-8	2-3	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	533	409	368	7.67	6.90	0.77	4.71	4.24	1.63	1.63	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	259	295	75	28	8-0	18-5	55-12	1.14	0.29	0.35	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	274	114	293	28	5-6	7-15	12-68	0.42	1.07	0.49	0.27

2023: Brad Gushue
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2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Mike McEwen, Matt Wozniak, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Tetsuro Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Morozumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Tom Brewster
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Aberdeen, SCO
2015: David Murdoch
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Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
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Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR

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