2012 World Men's Curling Championship

2012 World Men's Curling Championship
2012 World Men's Curling Championship
Host city	Basel, Switzerland
Arena	St. Jakobshalle
Dates	March 31 – April 8, 2012
Winner	Canada
Curling club	Coldwater & District CC; Coldwater, Ontario
Skip	Glenn Howard
Third	Wayne Middaugh
Second	Brent Laing
Lead	Craig Savill
Alternate	Scott Howard
Coach	Scott Taylor
Finalist	Scotland (Tom Brewster)
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The 2012 World Men's Curling Championship was held from March 31 to April 8, 2012 at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland.^[1] The 2012 World Men's Championship was one of the curling events that is a qualifier for the curling tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Host cityBasel, Switzerland

ArenaSt. Jakobshalle

DatesMarch 31 – April 8, 2012

Winner Canada

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In the final, Canada's Glenn Howard defeated Scotland's Tom Brewster after making a draw to score the winning point, wrapping up the game with a score of 8–7.^[2] Canada won its third consecutive gold medal and thirty-fourth overall gold medal. Howard won his fourth gold medal and his second gold medal as skip, while Brewster won his second consecutive silver medal.

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Canada^[7]	China	Czech Republic
Coldwater & District CC, Coldwater Skip: Glenn Howard Third: Wayne Middaugh Second: Brent Laing Lead: Craig Savill Alternate: Scott Howard	Harbin CC, Harbin Skip: Liu Rui Third: Xu Xiaoming Second: Ba Dexin Lead: Zang Jialiang Alternate: Chen Lu'an	Brno CK, Brno Skip: Jiří Snítil Third: Martin Snítil Second: Jindřich Kitzberger Lead: Marek Vydra Alternate: Samuel Mokris
Denmark	France	Germany
Hvidovre CC, Hvidovre Skip: Rasmus Stjerne Third: Johnny Frederiksen Second: Mikkel Poulsen Lead: Troels Harry Alternate: Lars Vilandt	Chamonix CC, Chamonix Fourth: Tony Angiboust Skip: Thomas Dufour Second: Lionel Roux Lead: Wilfrid Coulot Alternate: Jérémy Frarier	CC Hamburg, Hamburg Fourth: Felix Schulze Skip: John Jahr Second: Peter Rickmers Lead: Sven Goldemann Alternate: Christoph Daase
Norway	New Zealand^[8]	Scotland^[9]
Snarøen CC, Oslo Skip: Thomas Ulsrud Third: Torger Nergård Second: Thomas Løvold* Lead: Håvard Vad Petersson Alternate:** Christoffer Svae	Auckland CC, Auckland Skip: Peter de Boer Third: Sean Becker Second: Scott Becker Lead: Kenny Thomson Alternate: Phil Dowling	Curl Aberdeen, Aberdeen Skip: Tom Brewster Third: Greg Drummond Second: Scott Andrews Lead: Michael Goodfellow Alternate: David Edwards
Sweden^[10]	Switzerland^[11]	United States^[12]^[13]
Karlstads CK, Karlstad Skip: Sebastian Kraupp* Third: Fredrik Lindberg Second: Oskar Eriksson Lead: Viktor Kjäll Alternate: Niklas Edin	Glarus CC, Glarus Fourth: Benoît Schwarz Skip: Jan Hauser Second: Marco Ramstein Lead: Toni Müller Alternate:** Jürg Bamert	Ardsley CC, Irvington Skip: Heath McCormick Third: Bill Stopera Second: Martin Sather Lead: Dean Gemmell Alternate: Craig Brown

Country	Skip	W	L	PF	PA	Ends Won	Ends Lost	Blank Ends	Stolen Ends	Shot %
Canada	Glenn Howard	10	1	88	58	50	45	9	9	88%
Scotland	Tom Brewster	8	3	77	59	46	44	16	10	84%
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	8	3	71	61	47	38	19	10	83%
Sweden	Sebastian Kraupp	7	4	68	68	37	40	19	10	82%
New Zealand	Peter de Boer	7	4	67	71	44	42	16	8	79%
China	Liu Rui	6	5	73	63	46	46	15	16	84%
Denmark	Rasmus Stjerne	6	5	53	64	48	43	13	12	80%
United States	Heath McCormick	4	7	73	70	49	46	6	14	77%
Switzerland	Jan Hauser	3	8	61	73	41	46	14	6	79%
France	Thomas Dufour	3	8	63	83	45	48	14	7	79%
Germany	John Jahr	2	9	52	76	39	47	17	5	77%
Czech Republic	Jiří Snítil	2	9	61	84	43	49	15	6	78%

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (McCormick)	0	0	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
Germany (Jahr) 🔨	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer) 🔨	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	3
Scotland (Brewster)	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	X	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	6
Denmark (Stjerne) 🔨	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	3

2012 World Men's Curling Championship

Qualification

Teams

Round-robin standings

Round-robin results

Draw 1

Draw 2

Draw 3

Draw 4

Draw 5

Draw 6

Draw 7

Draw 8

Draw 9

Draw 10

Draw 11

Draw 12

Draw 13

Draw 14

Draw 15

Draw 16

Draw 17

Tiebreaker

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

3 vs. 4

Semifinal

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Player percentages

References

External links

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Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Howard)	0	1	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	7
France (Dufour) 🔨	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	5

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Stjerne) 🔨	1	2	1	1	0	3	0	3	X	X	11
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	X	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Liu) 🔨	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	X	9
Czech Republic (Snítil)	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	X	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (Hauser)	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	X	4
Sweden (Kraupp) 🔨	0	0	1	2	0	3	0	2	0	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud) 🔨	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	6
Scotland (Brewster)	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	0	5	X	11

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
France (Dufour)	0	1	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	1	8
United States (McCormick) 🔨	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Howard) 🔨	4	0	2	2	0	1	X	X	X	X	9
Germany (Jahr)	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	2

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Snítil)	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	2	X	5
Switzerland (Hauser) 🔨	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scotland (Brewster)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	7
Denmark (Stjerne) 🔨	3	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	2	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	X	7
Norway (Ulsrud) 🔨	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	4

Key
	Teams to playoffs
	Teams to tiebreaker

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Jahr)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	5
France (Dufour) 🔨	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	6

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Howard) 🔨	1	0	2	1	0	2	0	2	X	X	8
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (McCormick) 🔨	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	2	7
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Germany (Jahr) 🔨	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	3
Scotland (Brewster)	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	1	1	X	8

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer) 🔨	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	3
Sweden (Kraupp)	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	2	2	X	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	6
Czech Republic (Snítil) 🔨	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scotland (Brewster) 🔨	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	1	7
Switzerland (Hauser)	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (Hauser)	0	2	2	0	3	0	0	2	X	X	9
Germany (Jahr) 🔨	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Kraupp)	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	1
United States (McCormick) 🔨	1	2	3	3	0	1	X	X	X	X	10

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (McCormick)	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	X	X	4
Norway (Ulsrud) 🔨	2	0	0	3	0	3	0	1	X	X	9

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Scotland (Brewster) 🔨	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	7
China (Liu)	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	3	X	8
Sweden (Kraupp) 🔨	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer) 🔨	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	2	X	8
Czech Republic (Snítil)	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Czech Republic (Snítil) 🔨	2	0	0	2	0	2	2	0	0	3	11
France (Dufour)	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	2	2	0	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (Hauser) 🔨	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	X	7
United States (McCormick)	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Howard)	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	7
Scotland (Brewster) 🔨	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
France (Dufour) 🔨	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	3
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	3	1	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Canada (Howard)	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	7
New Zealand (de Boer) 🔨	1	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	2	9

Player percentages
Sweden		New Zealand
Viktor Kjäll	96%	Kenny Thomson	61%
Oskar Eriksson	79%	Scott Becker	84%
Fredrik Lindberg	73%	Sean Becker	75%
Sebastian Kraupp	79%	Peter de Boer	55%
Total	81%	Total	69%


Page playoff system			Semifinal			Gold medal game



1	Canada	7				1	Canada	8

2	Scotland	6				2	Scotland	7

			2	Scotland	7

			4	Sweden	6

3	Norway	6

4	Sweden	8