CHAMPION: Gauthier Wins 2020 World Junior Mens Championship

SKIP
Jacques
Gauthier

Third
Jordan
Peters

Second
Brayden
Payette

Lead
Zack
Bilawka

Jacques Gauthier (Winnipeg, CAN) won 7-2 over Yves Wagenseil (Bern, SUI) in the Final of the World Junior Mens Championship, held February 15 - 22, 2020 in Krasnayorsk, RCF. To advance to the championship game, Gauthier won 6-4 over Sixten Totzek (Hamburg, GER) in the semifinals of the 2020 World Junior Mens Championship in Krasnayorsk, RCF;

Gauthier finished 7-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gauthier lost 5-4 to Luc Violette (Lake Stevens, USA), then responded with a 8-3 win over Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE). Gauthier won 7-5 against Wagenseil, then won 7-2 against Giacomo Colli (Trentino, ITA) and 9-3 against Eirik Oey (Oslo, NOR). Gauthier won 7-1 against Matthew Neilson (Naseby, NZL), then won 8-5 against Totzek and 6-1 against Andrey Dudov (Moscow, RCF). Gauthier went on to lose 6-5 against James Craik (Aberdeen, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Junior Mens Championship Championship title, Gauthier earned 26.399 world rankings points. For week 31 of the event schedule, Gauthier did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Gauthier 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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