CHAMPION: Whyte Wins Aberdeen International Curling Championship

Stirling, Scotland

SKIP
Ross
Whyte

Third
Robin
Brydone

Second
Duncan
McFadzean

Lead
Euan
Kyle

Games:	7
Record:	7W - 0L
PF/G:	8.63
PA/G:	3.92
Hammer Efficiency:	0.39
Steal Defense:	0.16
Force Efficiency:	0.93
Steal Efficiency:	0.23

Ross Whyte (Stirling, SCO) won 6-5 over Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in the Final of the Aberdeen International Curling Championship, held March 16 - 19, 2023 in Aberdeen, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Whyte won 3-2 over Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) in the semifinals of the Aberdeen International Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland; and won 8-2 over Kapp in the quarterfinals. of the Aberdeen International Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland;

Whyte finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Whyte defeated Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) 6-1, then won 9-5 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) and 5-4 against Ross Craik (Stirling, SCO). Whyte won 7-1 against Waddell in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Aberdeen International Curling Championship Championship title, Whyte earned 37.500 world rankings points along with the $4,188CDN first prize cheque. Whyte move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 21 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 10th overall with 225.875 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Whyte ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 225.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	59	30	0	0.663	20-4	12-8	11-3	6-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	655	488	388	7.45	5.92	1.53	4.26	3.98	1.75	1.49	1.76

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	347	392	96	66	13-3	24-4	89-10	1.13	0.28	0.45	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	308	96	292	49	2-1	5-13	14-70	0.31	0.95	0.56	0.21

2025: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Norder, SCO
2024: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Michael Goodfellow
STIRLING, SCO
2023: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2022: Sixten Totzek
Sixten Totzek, Marc Muskatewitz, Joshua Sutor, Dominik Greindl
Munich, GER
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2019: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2018: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2017: Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie, Blair Fraser, Dave Reid, Duncan Menzies
Dumfries, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO

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