CHAMPION: Howard Wins 2012 World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Glenn
Howard

Third
Wayne
Middaugh

Second
Brent
Laing

Lead
Craig
Savill

Glenn Howard (Coldwater, CAN) won 8-7 over Tom Brewster (Aberdeen, SCO) in the Final of the World Men's Curling Championship, held March 31 - April 8, 2012 in Basel, Switzerland.

Howard finished 10-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Howard defeated Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA) 7-5, then won 9-2 against Johnny Jahr (Fuessen, GER) and 8-7 against Heath McCormick (New York, USA). Howard won 8-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR), then won 9-3 against Jiri Snitil (Brno, CZE) and 7-6 against Jan Hauser (GC R+B, SUI). Howard won 8-5 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidore, DEN), then won 10-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) and 7-5 against Brewster. Howard went on to lose 9-7 against Peter De Boer (Naseby, NZL). Howard responded with a 8-7 win over Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Men's Curling Championship Championship title, Howard earned 45.000 world rankings points. For week 34 of the event schedule, Howard did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Howard ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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