CHAMPION: Stoughton Wins 2011 Ford World Mens Curling Championship

SKIP
Jeff
Stoughton

Third
Jon
Mead

Second
Reid
Carruthers

Lead
Steve
Gould

Jeff Stoughton (Winnipeg, CAN) won 6-5 over Tom Brewster (Aberdeen, SCO) in the Final of the Ford World Mens Curling Championship, held April 2 - 10, 2011 in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Stoughton finished 10-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Stoughton defeated Switzerland's Christof Schwaller 8-4, then won 9-5 against Denmark's Tommy Stjerne and 7-4 against Germany's Andy Kapp. Stoughton won 7-4 against Korea's Dong-Keun Lee, then won 5-3 against Pete Fenson (Bemidji, USA) and 11-5 against Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA). Stoughton won 7-3 against Brewster, then won 9-4 against Czech Republic's Jiri Snitil and 10-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Stoughton won 5-4 against Luan Chen (Harbin, CHN). Stoughton went on to lose 7-6 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ford World Mens Curling Championship Championship title, Stoughton earned 45.000 world rankings points. Stoughton move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 33.96 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 6th overall with 337.568 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Stoughton ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 221.650 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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