CHAMPION: Mouat Wins 2023 Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

SKIP
Bruce
Mouat

Third
Grant
Hardie

Second
Bobby
Lammie

Lead
Hammy
McMillan Jr.

Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) won 5-4 over Yannick Schwaller (Geneva, SUI) in the Final of the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships, held November 19 - 26, 2022 in Ostersund, Sweden. To advance to the championship game, Mouat won 7-4 over Joel Retornaz (Trento, ITA) in the semifinals of the 2023 Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships in Ostersund, Sweden;

Mouat finished 8-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mouat defeated Sixten Totzek (Fuessen, GER) 6-4, then won 10-4 against Sergio Vez (San Sebastian, ESP) and 8-7 against Oskar Eriksson (Karlstad, SWE). Mouat won 11-6 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE), then won 10-4 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR) and 7-4 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN). Mouat won 8-1 against Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR). Mouat went on to lose 7-2 against Schwaller. Mouat responded with a 7-5 win over Retornaz in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships Championship title, Mouat earned 60.000 world rankings points. Mouat move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 57.375 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 3rd overall with 363.770 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Mouat ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 116.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	62	25	0	0.713	26-4	13-12	3-5	1-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	667	547	373	8.20	5.59	2.61	4.78	3.93	1.71	1.42	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	315	418	50	45	10-1	29-2	98-3	1.33	0.16	0.51	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	352	129	323	41	1-2	6-16	25-62	0.37	0.92	0.64	0.25

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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