Brunner3-0 at 2023 Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge

SKIP
Michael
Brunner

Third
Anthony
Petoud

Second
Romano
Keller-Meier

Lead
Andreas
Gerlach

Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) finished 3-0 in the 23-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brunner defeated Stefan Heilmann (Bern, SUI) 7-3, then won 6-4 against Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) and 6-5 against Switzerland's Andrin Schnider in their final qualifying round match.

Brunner earned 18.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge. For week 14 of the event schedule, Brunner did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 19th to 20th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 164.984 total points. Brunner ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 91.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	55	35	0	0.611	9-5	7-4	4-1	3-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	643	476	404	7.40	6.28	1.12	4.53	4.18	1.64	1.50	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	318	338	100	39	10-1	23-2	58-14	1.06	0.31	0.33	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	325	138	304	44	2-3	7-16	26-72	0.42	0.94	0.52	0.28

2023: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Forfar, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
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2021: Yves Stocker
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2019: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin
Pinerolo, ITA
2018: Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Andrea Pilzer, Daniele Ferrazza
Trentino, ITA

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