CHAMPION: Mouat Wins 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship

Stirling, Scotland

SKIP
Bruce
Mouat

Third
Grant
Hardie

Second
Bobby
Lammie

Lead
Hammy
McMillan Jr.

Games:	14
Record:	12W - 2L
PF/G:	9.17
PA/G:	5.29
Hammer Efficiency:	0.61
Steal Defense:	0.07
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.27

Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) won 9-3 over Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in the Final of the BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship, held April 1 - 9, 2023 in Ottawa, Ontario. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Mouat won 9-8 over Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) to advance to the championship game. of the 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship in Ottawa, Ontario; of the 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship in Ottawa, Ontario;

Mouat finished 10-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mouat defeated Retornaz 7-4, then won 8-1 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR). Mouat went on to lose 7-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Mouat responded with a 8-6 win over Sixten Totzek (Baden Baden, GER). Mouat won 10-8 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Mouat went on to lose 7-4 against Yannick Schwaller (Geneva, SUI). Mouat responded with a 9-2 win over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). Mouat won 9-3 against ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR), then won 9-5 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Lillehammer, NOR) and 6-3 against Gushue. Mouat won 9-3 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE), then won 10-4 against Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship Championship title, Mouat earned 82.500 world rankings points. Mouat move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 61.25 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 2nd overall with 366.250 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Mouat ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 366.250 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

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