CHAMPION: Howard Wins 2012 World Men's Curling Championship

[[1:45.0000]] CHAMPION: Howard Wins 2012 World Men's Curling Championship

Coldwater, Canada

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SKIP
Glenn
Howard

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Third
Wayne
Middaugh

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Second
Brent
Laing

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Lead
Craig
Savill

Games:	13
Record:	12W - 1L
PF/G:	8.17
PA/G:	5.63
Hammer Efficiency:	0.52
Steal Defense:	0.15
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.15

Glenn Howard (Coldwater, CAN) won 8-7 over Tom Brewster (Aberdeen, SCO) in the Final of the World Men's Curling Championship, held March 31 - April 8, 2012 in Basel, Switzerland.

Howard finished 10-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Howard defeated Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA) 7-5, then won 9-2 against Johnny Jahr (Fuessen, GER) and 8-7 against Heath McCormick (New York, USA). Howard won 8-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR), then won 9-3 against Jiri Snitil (Brno, CZE) and 7-6 against Jan Hauser (GC R+B, SUI). Howard won 8-5 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidore, DEN), then won 10-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) and 7-5 against Brewster. Howard went on to lose 9-7 against Peter De Boer (Naseby, NZL). Howard responded with a 8-7 win over Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Men's Curling Championship Championship title, Howard earned 45.000 world rankings points. For week 34 of the event schedule, Howard did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Howard ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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