CHAMPION: Gosgens Wins 2023 Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

SKIP
Wouter
Gosgens

Third
Jaap
van Dorp

Second
Laurens
Hoekman

Lead
Tobias
van den Hurk

Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) won 11-6 over Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) in the Final of the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships, held November 19 - 26, 2022 in Ostersund, Sweden. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Gosgens won 13-1 over Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) to advance to the championship game. of the 2023 Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships in Ostersund, Sweden; of the 2023 Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships in Ostersund, Sweden;

Gosgens finished 6-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gosgens defeated Mathias Genner (Kitzbuehel, AUT) 9-2, then went on to lose 7-6 against Truksans. Gosgens responded with a 10-4 win over Stefan Sever (Ljubljana, SLO). Gosgens won 12-5 against Timothy Verreycken (Zemst, BEL), then won 7-1 against Kristof Czermann (Budapest, HUN) and 8-2 against Steve Seixeiro (Lisbon, POR). Gosgens won 11-4 against Eddy Mercier (Megeve, FRA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships Championship title, Gosgens earned 22.500 world rankings points, remaining in 19th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 3.25 after improving upon their best so far this season. Gosgens ranks 14th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 111.875 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

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