CHAMPION: Koe Wins 2024 Astec Safety Challenge

SKIP
Kevin
Koe

Third
Tyler
Tardi

Second
Jacques
Gauthier

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) won 6-3 over Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Astec Safety Challenge, held January 11 - 14, 2024 at the Lloydminster Curling Club in Lloydminster, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Koe won 6-4 over Bruce Mouat (STIRLING, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2024 Astec Safety Challenge in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada; and won 6-5 over Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Astec Safety Challenge in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada;

Koe finished 4-1 in the 21-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koe defeated Ryan Parent (Calgary, AB) 6-5, then went on to lose 7-5 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Koe responded with a 7-2 win over Mike McEwen (Saskatoon, SK). Koe won 4-3 against Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB), then won 4-2 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Astec Safety Challenge Championship title, Koe earned 52.500 world rankings points along with the $26,000CDN first prize cheque. Koe move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 48.75 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 8th overall with 269.562 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Koe ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 193.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	45	29	0	0.608	6-4	3-6	4-4	1-1	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	577	414	356	7.18	6.17	1.01	4.52	3.97	1.59	1.55	1.51

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	269	327	56	35	5-1	24-2	67-11	1.22	0.21	0.41	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	308	87	300	52	2-5	2-14	12-66	0.28	0.97	0.56	0.21

2024: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Tyler Tardi, Jacques Gauthier, Karrick Martin
Calgary, AB
2008: Kevin Martin
Kevin Koe, Tyler Tardi, Jacques Gauthier, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2007: Jeff Stoughton
Jeff Stoughton, Ryan Fry, Rob Fowler, Steve Gould
Winnipeg, MB
2006: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Jon Mead, Brent Laing, Craig Savill
Coldwater, ON
2005: Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson, Rob Bucholz, Glen Kennedy, Nolan Thiessen
Edmonton, AB
2004: Pat Ryan
Pat Ryan, Jim Cotter, Kevin MacKenzie, Rick Sawatsky
Kelowna, BC
2003: John Morris
John Morris, Shane Park, Marc Kennedy, Paul Moffatt
Calgary, AB
2002: Glen Despins
Glen Despins, Rod Montgomery, Phillip Germain, Dwayne Mihalicz
Strongfield, SK
2001: Andreas Schwaller
Andreas Schwaller
, SUI
2000: Rob Ewen
Andreas Schwaller
, SK
1999: Bert Gretzinger
Bert Gretzinger, Bob Ursel, Mark Whittle, Dave Mellof
, BC
1998: Bruce Korte
Bruce Korte, Darrell McKee, Roger Korte, Rory Golanowski
Saskatoon, SK
1997: Doug Walker
Bruce Korte, Darrell McKee, Roger Korte, Rory Golanowski
Beaumont, AB
1995: Lowell Peterman
Lowell Peterman, Trevor Sparks, Kelly Row, Peter Innes
Red Deer, AB
1994: Ed Lukowich
Ed Lukowich, John Ferguson, Dan Petryk, Steve Petryk
Calgary, AB

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