Gosgens5-7 at LGT World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Wouter
Gosgens

Third
Laurens
Hoekman

Second
Jaap
van Dorp

Lead
Alexander
Magan

Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) finished 5-7 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gosgens lost 8-1 to Niklas Edin (Ornskoldsvik, SWE), then responded with a 9-4 win over Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR). Gosgens went on to lose 9-4 against Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER). Gosgens lost 8-5 to Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI) where Gosgens responded with a 7-6 win over John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Gosgens went on to lose 8-6 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Trondheim, NOR). Gosgens lost 7-4 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Gosgens lost 8-5 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Gosgens lost 5-3 to Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) where Gosgens responded with a 8-5 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Gosgens won 7-5 against Shinya Abe (Karuizawa, JPN), then won 7-5 against Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL) in their final qualifying round match.

Gosgens earned 20.625 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Gosgens move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 16.125 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 29th overall with 121.813 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Gosgens ranks 29th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 121.813 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	40	36	0	0.526	11-7	6-6	2-3	1-0	1-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	578	452	395	7.82	6.83	0.99	4.71	4.22	1.66	1.62	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	283	333	88	29	10-0	24-6	62-13	1.18	0.31	0.38	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	295	119	307	33	3-6	4-21	20-64	0.40	1.04	0.50	0.27

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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