CHAMPION: Mouat Wins Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

SKIP
Bruce
Mouat

Third
Grant
Hardie

Second
Bobby
Lammie

Lead
Hammy
McMillan Jr.

Bruce Mouat (STIRLING, SCO) won 6-5 over Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the Final of the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships, held November 18 - 25 at the Curl Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Mouat won 7-4 over Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI) in the semifinals

Mouat finished 7-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mouat defeated Magnus Ramsfjell (Trondheim, NOR) 5-3, then went on to lose 8-5 against Edin. Mouat responded with a 6-5 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Mouat won 9-6 against Schwaller, then won 8-2 against Sixten Totzek (FÃ¼ssen, GER). Mouat went on to lose 7-6 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Mouat responded with a 9-4 win over Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED). Mouat won 10-3 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR), then won 8-7 against Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships Championship title, Mouat earned 67.500 world rankings points. Mouat move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 62.25 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 3rd overall with 386.375 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Mouat ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 203.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	67	20	0	0.770	19-5	14-8	3-4	4-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	647	545	364	8.42	5.63	2.80	4.78	3.88	1.76	1.45	1.34

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	320	414	58	48	14-1	32-1	82-5	1.29	0.18	0.47	0.15

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	327	131	306	39	2-4	9-17	21-56	0.40	0.94	0.62	0.26

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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