Ruohonen

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Third
Jason
Smith

Second
Samuel
Strouse

Lead
Jared
Allen

Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Ruohonen finished 2-3 in the 23-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ruohonen defeated Manuel Jermann (Arlesheim, SUI) 6-5, then went on to lose 6-4 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI). Ruohonen lost 10-4 to Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI) where Ruohonen responded with a 11-4 win over Gontzal Garcia (San Sebastian, ESP). Ruohonen went on to lose 5-4 against Kyle Waddell (Hamilton, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

Ruohonen earned 7.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Ruohonen move up 5 spots after posting a net gain of 5.625 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 87th overall with 40.672 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ruohonen ranks 59th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 23.563 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	29	0	0.491	2-7	2-5	0-3	0-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	411	299	289	7.27	7.03	0.24	4.53	4.45	1.61	1.58	1.02

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	209	223	92	16	8-1	10-5	43-17	1.07	0.44	0.32	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	202	76	197	26	0-5	6-14	9-31	0.38	0.98	0.59	0.27

2023: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Forfar, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yves Stocker
Philipp Hoesli, Yves Stocker, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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