Shuster Finishes Fourth at 2022 Winter Olympics

Chaska, United States

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
John
Landsteiner

Games:	11
Record:	5W - 6L
PF/G:	6.41
PA/G:	7.48
Hammer Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.59
Steal Efficiency:	0.12

John Shuster (Chaska, USA) lost 8-5 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China; John Shuster (Chaska, USA) lost 8-5 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. Shuster lost 8-4 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, UK) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Shuster finished 5-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shuster defeated Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS) 7-5, then went on to lose 7-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Shuster responded with a 9-7 win over Mouat. Shuster went on to lose 7-6 against Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR). Shuster lost 10-5 to Gushue where Shuster responded with a 8-6 win over Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN). Shuster won 7-4 against Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI). Shuster went on to lose 10-4 against Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA). Shuster responded with a 7-5 win over Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Winter Olympics, Shuster take home 43.436 world rankings points, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 19th place overall with 170.002 total points. Shuster ranks 21st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 124.536 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	27	13	0	0.675	13-3	6-5	2-2	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	322	262	197	8.14	6.12	2.02	4.69	4.22	1.74	1.45	1.09

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	161	203	47	20	7-2	12-0	46-9	1.26	0.29	0.46	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	161	59	150	15	1-1	2-7	9-29	0.37	0.93	0.64	0.26

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