Gosgens3-6 at Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

SKIP
Wouter
Gosgens

Third
Laurens
Hoekman

Second
Jaap
van Dorp

Lead
Tobias
van den Hurk

Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) finished 3-6 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gosgens lost 10-1 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA), droppimg another game, 8-4 to Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI). Gosgens lost 7-5 to Magnus Ramsfjell (Trondheim, NOR) where Gosgens responded with a 10-3 win over Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Gosgens won 7-6 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR). Gosgens went on to lose 11-7 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Gosgens lost 9-4 to Bruce Mouat (STIRLING, SCO). Gosgens lost 8-4 to Sixten Totzek (FÃ¼ssen, GER) where Gosgens responded with a 10-7 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Gosgens earned 10.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 23rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 5.625 after improving upon their best so far this season. Gosgens ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 68.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	40	36	0	0.526	11-7	6-6	2-3	1-0	1-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	578	452	395	7.82	6.83	0.99	4.71	4.22	1.66	1.62	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	283	333	88	29	10-0	24-6	62-13	1.18	0.31	0.38	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	295	119	307	33	3-6	4-21	20-64	0.40	1.04	0.50	0.27

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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