CHAMPION: Mouat Wins 2022 Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

SKIP
Bruce
Mouat

Third
Grant
Hardie

Second
Bobby
Lammie

Lead
Hammy
McMillan Jr.

Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) won 8-5 over Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the Final of the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships, held November 20 - 27, 2021 in Lillehammer, Norway. To advance to the championship game, Mouat won 9-3 over Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) in the semifinals

Mouat finished 9-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mouat defeated Edin 6-2, then won 6-2 against Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) and 7-2 against Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA). Mouat won 9-2 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED), then won 10-5 against Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER) and 9-8 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN). Mouat won 7-1 against Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI), then won 10-5 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) and 8-3 against Walstad in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships Championship title, Mouat earned 70.303 world rankings points. Mouat gained 3.035 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 3rdplace overall with 403.406 total points. Mouat ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 231.903 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	50	13	0	0.794	19-3	11-4	6-5	0-1	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	471	410	253	8.70	5.37	3.33	5.14	3.65	1.69	1.47	1.21

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	209	296	30	23	8-1	27-0	52-7	1.42	0.14	0.47	0.10

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	262	114	223	34	0-0	8-10	22-51	0.44	0.85	0.60	0.29

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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