Gosgens Reaches 2023 St. Galler Elite Challenge Semifinals

SKIP
Wouter
Gosgens

Third
Jaap
van Dorp

Second
Laurens
Hoekman

Lead
Tobias
van den Hurk

Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) run at the 2023 St. Galler Elite Challenge came to an end in the semifinals with a 8-7 loss to Cameron Bryce (Stirling, SCO). of the 2023 St. Galler Elite Challenge in St. Gallen, Switzerland; Gosgens advanced through the quarterfinals with a 7-2 win over Kim Schwaller (Zug, SUI).

Gosgens finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gosgens defeated Ross Craik (Stirling, SCO) 6-4, then won 7-3 against Sixten Totzek (Baden Baden, GER) and 8-3 against Schwaller. Gosgens won 6-4 against Fredrik Nyman (Solleftea, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Gosgens earned 14.875 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the St. Galler Elite Challenge. For week 25 of the event schedule, Gosgens did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 15th place on the World Ranking Standings with 168.740 total points. Gosgens ranks 14th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 147.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	55	25	0	0.688	10-5	4-2	4-1	2-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	589	512	339	8.69	5.76	2.94	4.97	4.02	1.75	1.43	1.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	282	362	72	24	14-0	27-2	63-11	1.28	0.26	0.40	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	307	150	267	35	5-5	9-10	24-52	0.49	0.87	0.63	0.30

2024: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Border, SCO
2023: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2022: Marco Hoesli
Marco Hoesli, Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI

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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