CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2024 Pan-Continental Championships

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) won 8-3 over Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) in the Final of the Pan-Continental Championships, held October 29 - November 4, 2023 in Kelowna, British Columbia. To advance to the championship game, Gushue won 8-3 over Andrew Stopera (Duluth, MN) in the semifinals

Gushue are currently 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue lost 8-5 to Park, then responded with a 8-2 win over Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL). Gushue won 7-5 against Stopera, then won 6-3 against Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) and 8-1 against Randie Shen (Taipei City, TPE). Gushue won 9-4 against Australia's Jay Merchant, then won 11-1 against Rayad Husain (Georgetown, GUY). In their next game, Gushue plays.

For winning the Pan-Continental Championships Championship title, Gushue earned 37.500 world rankings points, remaining in 3rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 379.250 total points. Gushue ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 118.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	44	16	0	0.733	13-3	4-2	2-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	465	394	236	8.47	5.08	3.40	4.92	3.61	1.72	1.40	1.46

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	219	289	38	31	7-1	25-1	58-4	1.32	0.17	0.48	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	246	105	198	37	0-1	5-5	25-46	0.43	0.80	0.63	0.28

2024: Xiao Ming Xu
Xiao Ming Xu, Xueqing Fei, Zhi Yu Wang, Zhichao Li, Jianjun Ye, Weidong Tan
Beijing, CHN
2023: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker, Jim Cotter, Caleb Flaxey
St. John's, CAN
2022: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker, Nathan Young
St. John's, CAN

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