CHAMPION: Gosgens Wins 2024 Sun City Cup

SKIP
Wouter
Gosgens

Third
Laurens
Hoekman

Second
Jaap
van Dorp

Lead
Tobias
van den Hurk

Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) won 10-5 over Cameron Bryce (Border, SCO) in the Final of the Sun City Cup, held February 15 - 18, 2024 in Karlstad, Sweden. To advance to the championship game, Gosgens won 7-2 over Andreas Harstad (Oppdal, NOR) in the semifinals of the 2024 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden; and won 5-4 over Simon Granbom (Gavle, SWE) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden;

Gosgens finished 5-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gosgens defeated Bryce 9-6, then won 11-3 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN) and 8-2 against Alexander Lindstroem (Snaroya, NOR). Gosgens won 7-5 against Axel Landelius (Mjoelby, SWE), then won 12-2 against Jan Iseli (Solothun, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Sun City Cup Championship title, Gosgens earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $3,912CDN first prize cheque. Gosgens move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of 18.75 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 31st overall with 104.000 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Gosgens ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 104.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	40	36	0	0.526	11-7	6-6	2-3	1-0	1-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	578	452	395	7.82	6.83	0.99	4.71	4.22	1.66	1.62	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	283	333	88	29	10-0	24-6	62-13	1.18	0.31	0.38	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	295	119	307	33	3-6	4-21	20-64	0.40	1.04	0.50	0.27

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