Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's curling tournament of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held between 14 and 24 February 2018 at the Gangneung Curling Centre.^[1] Ten nations competed in a round robin preliminary round, and the top four nations at the conclusion of the round robin qualified for the medal round.^[2]

Men's curling at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Gangneung Curling Centre, Pyeongchang, South Korea
Dates	14–24 February
Competitors	50 from 10 nations
Medalists
John Shuster Tyler George Matt Hamilton John Landsteiner Joe Polo  United States Niklas Edin Oskar Eriksson Rasmus Wranå Christoffer Sundgren Henrik Leek  Sweden Benoît Schwarz Claudio Pätz Peter de Cruz Valentin Tanner Dominik Märki  Switzerland
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Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Great Britain, Switzerland, and the United States each finished round robin play with a 5–4 record, resulting in a three-way tie for third place in the preliminary round standings. Under Olympic tiebreaker rules then in effect, the United States was awarded the third seed in the medal round (by virtue of having defeated both Great Britain and Switzerland during the preliminary round), and Great Britain and Switzerland played a one-game tiebreaker. Switzerland prevailed 9-5 and was awarded the fourth seed.

In the gold medal match, with the score tied at 5 in the eighth end, US skip John Shuster fired a dramatic double take-out for five that left his team leading 10-5 with two ends to go, effectively sealing the win and the gold medal for the United States, which won its first gold medal in curling.^[3]

Teams

Ten teams took part in the tournament:^[4]

Canada	Denmark	Great Britain	Italy	Japan
The Glencoe Club, Calgary Skip: Kevin Koe Third: Marc Kennedy Second: Brent Laing Lead: Ben Hebert Alternate: Scott Pfeifer	Hvidovre CC, Hvidovre Skip: Rasmus Stjerne Third: Johnny Frederiksen Second: Mikkel Poulsen Lead: Oliver Dupont Alternate: Morten Berg Thomsen	Royal Caledonian CC, Stirling Skip: Kyle Smith Third: Thomas Muirhead Second: Kyle Waddell Lead: Cammy Smith Alternate: Glen Muirhead	A.S.D. Trentino Curling, Cembra Fourth: Amos Mosaner Skip: Joël Retornaz Second: Simone Gonin Lead: Daniele Ferrazza Alternate: Andrea Pilzer	SC Karuizawa Club, Karuizawa Skip: Yusuke Morozumi Third: Tetsuro Shimizu Second: Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Lead: Kosuke Morozumi Alternate: Kohsuke Hirata
Norway	South Korea	Sweden	Switzerland	United States
Snarøen CC, Oslo Skip: Thomas Ulsrud Third: Torger Nergård Second: Christoffer Svae Lead: Håvard Vad Petersson Alternate: Markus Høiberg	GyeongBuk Uiseong CC, Uiseong Skip: Kim Chang-min Third: Seong Se-hyeon Second: Oh Eun-su Lead: Lee Ki-bok Alternate: Kim Min-chan	Karlstads CK, Karlstad Skip: Niklas Edin Third: Oskar Eriksson Second: Rasmus Wranå Lead: Christoffer Sundgren Alternate: Henrik Leek	CC Genève, Geneva Fourth: Benoît Schwarz Third: Claudio Pätz Skip: Peter de Cruz Lead: Valentin Tanner Alternate: Dominik Märki	Duluth CC, Duluth Skip: John Shuster Third: Tyler George Second: Matt Hamilton Lead: John Landsteiner Alternate: Joe Polo

Round-robin standings

Final round robin standings

Team	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Sweden	Niklas Edin	9	7	2	62	43	34	28	13	8	87%	Playoffs
Canada	Kevin Koe	9	6	3	56	46	36	34	14	8	87%
United States	John Shuster	9	5	4	67	63	37	39	4	6	80%
Great Britain	Kyle Smith	9	5	4	55	60	40	37	8	7	82%	Tiebreaker
Switzerland	Peter de Cruz	9	5	4	60	55	39	37	10	6	83%
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	9	4	5	52	56	34	39	7	8	82%
South Korea	Kim Chang-min	9	4	5	65	63	39	39	8	8	82%
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	9	4	5	48	56	33	35	13	5	81%
Italy	Joël Retornaz	9	3	6	50	56	37	38	15	7	81%
Denmark	Rasmus Stjerne	9	2	7	53	70	36	39	12	5	83%

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Seoul Time (UTC+9).^[5]

Summary

Team											Record
Canada		8–3	6–4	5–3	8–4	7–4	7–6	2–5	6–8	7–9	6–3
Denmark	3–8		6–7	6–4	4–6	8–10	9–8	5–9	7–9	5–9	2–7
Great Britain	4–6	7–6		7–6	6–5	10–3	5–11	6–8	6–5	4–10	5–4
Italy	3–5	4–6	6–7		5–6	6–4	6–8	3–7	7–4	10–9	3–6
Japan	4–8	6–4	5–6	6–5		6–4	4-10	4–11	5–6	8–2	4–5
Norway	4–7	10–8	3–10	4–6	4–6		7–5	7–2	5–7	8–5	4–5
South Korea	6–7	8–9	11–5	8–6	10-4	5–7		2–7	8–7	7–11	4–5
Sweden	5–2	9–5	8–6	7–3	11–4	2–7	7–2		3–10	10–4	7–2
Switzerland	8–6	9–7	5–6	4–7	6–5	7–5	7–8	10–3		4–8	5–4
United States	9–7	9–5	10–4	9–10	2–8	5–8	11–7	4–10	8–4		5–4

Draw 1

Wednesday, 14 February, 09:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	5
Sweden (Edin)	0	2	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	1	9

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Koe)	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	5
Italy (Retornaz)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	X	7
United States (Shuster)	2	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	1	X	11

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Switzerland (de Cruz)	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	5
Great Britain (Smith)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	6

Draw 2

Wednesday, 14 February, 20:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Koe)	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6
Great Britain (Smith)	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	2
Sweden (Edin)	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	X	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (de Cruz)	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	4
Italy (Retornaz)	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	X	4
Japan (Morozumi)	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	X	6

Draw 3

Thursday, 15 February, 14:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Shuster)	0	1	0	3	2	0	0	2	1	0	9
Italy (Retornaz)	1	0	5	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	10

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	X	4
Canada (Koe)	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	X	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Great Britain (Smith)	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	6
Japan (Morozumi)	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	7
Switzerland (de Cruz)	1	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	9

Draw 4

Friday, 16 February, 09:05

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Retornaz)	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	4
Denmark (Stjerne)	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	7
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Edin)	4	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	X	X	10
United States (Shuster)	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	X	X	4

Draw 5

Friday, 16 February, 20:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	5
Switzerland (de Cruz)	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Edin)	1	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	2	X	8
Great Britain (Smith)	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	6

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

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Koe)	0	0	3	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	7
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	6

Draw 6

Saturday, 17 February, 14:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	1	0	2	2	0	3	1	X	11
Great Britain (Smith)	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	X	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (de Cruz)	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	1	7
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Koe)	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	2
Sweden (Edin)	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	6
Italy (Retornaz)	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	5

Draw 7

Sunday, 18 February, 09:05

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

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
United States (Shuster)	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	X	X	2
Japan (Morozumi)	2	1	1	0	0	2	2	X	X	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (de Cruz)	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	X	8
Canada (Koe)	0	2	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	X	6

Draw 8

Sunday, 18 February, 20:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Edin)	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	5	X	X	11
Japan (Morozumi)	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	9
South Korea (Kim)	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	2	0	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Italy (Retornaz)	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	6
Great Britain (Smith)	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	7

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

Draw 9

Monday, 19 February, 14:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Retornaz)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	6
South Korea (Kim)	3	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Edin)	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	X	X	X	3
Switzerland (de Cruz)	2	1	1	0	1	0	5	X	X	X	10

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
United States (Shuster)	1	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	9
Canada (Koe)	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Great Britain (Smith)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	7
Denmark (Stjerne)	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	6

Draw 10

Tuesday, 20 February, 09:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Great Britain (Smith)	3	1	0	2	0	3	1	X	X	X	10
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	4
Canada (Koe)	1	0	2	1	0	2	0	1	1	X	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	8
Switzerland (de Cruz)	1	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Italy (Retornaz)	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	X	3
Sweden (Edin)	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	7

Draw 11

Tuesday, 20 February, 20:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (de Cruz)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	4
United States (Shuster)	0	0	1	0	3	0	3	0	1	X	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	4
Italy (Retornaz)	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	0	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	6
Denmark (Stjerne)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	4

Draw 12

Wednesday, 21 February, 14:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Stjerne)	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	X	X	X	3
Canada (Koe)	4	0	1	0	3	0	0	X	X	X	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Great Britain (Smith)	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	X	X	4
United States (Shuster)	2	0	0	0	3	0	1	4	X	X	10

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

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	2	0	0	4	0	3	X	X	10
Japan (Morozumi)	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	X	4

Tiebreaker

Thursday, 22 February, 9:05

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Great Britain (Smith)	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	X	5
Switzerland (de Cruz)	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	5	X	9

Player percentages
Great Britain		Switzerland
Cameron Smith	85%	Valentin Tanner	89%
Kyle Waddell	89%	Peter de Cruz	86%
Thomas Muirhead	89%	Claudio Pätz	95%
Kyle Smith	82%	Benoît Schwarz	80%
Total	86%	Total	88%

Playoffs

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	1	Sweden	9
	4	Switzerland	3
						1	Sweden	7
						3	United States	10
	2	Canada	3
	3	United States	5			Bronze medal game
						2	Canada	5
						4	Switzerland	7

Semifinals

Thursday, 22 February, 20:05

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Edin)	2	0	0	4	0	2	1	0	X	X	9
Switzerland (de Cruz)	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	X	3

Player percentages
Sweden		Switzerland
Christoffer Sundgren	94%	Valentin Tanner	86%
Rasmus Wranå	97%	Peter de Cruz	84%
Oskar Eriksson	81%	Claudio Pätz	75%
Niklas Edin	95%	Benoît Schwarz	70%
Total	92%	Total	79%

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Koe)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
United States (Shuster)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	5

Player percentages
Canada		United States
Ben Hebert	84%	John Landsteiner	86%
Brent Laing	78%	Matt Hamilton	89%
Marc Kennedy	80%	Tyler George	83%
Kevin Koe	85%	John Shuster	91%
Total	82%	Total	87%

Bronze medal game

Friday, 23 February, 15:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Koe)	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	X	5
Switzerland (de Cruz)	0	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	X	7

Player percentages
Canada		Switzerland
Ben Hebert	100%	Valentin Tanner	81%
Brent Laing	75%	Peter de Cruz	84%
Marc Kennedy	75%	Claudio Pätz	91%
Kevin Koe	65%	Benoît Schwarz	88%
Total	79%	Total	86%

Gold medal game

Saturday, 24 February, 15:35

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

Player percentages
Sweden		United States
Christoffer Sundgren	96%	John Landsteiner	81%
Rasmus Wranå	84%	Matt Hamilton	74%
Oskar Eriksson	86%	Tyler George	88%
Niklas Edin	74%	John Shuster	76%
Total	85%	Total	80%

Final standings

The final standings are:^[6]

Place	Team	Record
	United States	7–4
	Sweden	8–3
	Switzerland	7–5
4	Canada	6–5
5	Great Britain	5–5
6	Norway	4–5
7	South Korea	4–5
8	Japan	4–5
9	Italy	3–6
10	Denmark	2–7

Statistics

Main article: Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Statistics

Player percentages

Player percentages during round robin play are as follows:^[7]

Lead

#	Curler	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total
1	Oliver Dupont (DEN)	84	86	89	88	95	93	90	86	93	89
2	Lee Ki-bok (KOR)	98	90	91	84	81	85	88	85	83	87
2	Cammy Smith (GBR)	84	80	86	94	93	89	85	85	91	87
2	Valentin Tanner (SUI)	88	98	82	86	83	84	80	93	85	87
5	Ben Hebert (CAN)	88	91	68	85	91	88	88	88	95	86
5	Christoffer Sundgren (SWE)	85	90	75	93	88	81	86	81	94	86
7	Kosuke Morozumi (JPN)	88	88	83	76	89	75	89	75	88	83
7	John Landsteiner (USA)	82	78	100	72	86	83	75	86	86	83
7	Håvard Vad Petersson (NOR)	81	78	86	74	75	85	89	88	94	83
7	Daniele Ferrazza (ITA)	82	81	80	91	78	88	—	—	—	83

Second

#	Curler	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total
1	Rasmus Wranå (SWE)	85	92	95	79	89	89	68	97	94	88
2	Brent Laing (CAN)	80	89	81	94	81	86	82	86	95	86
3	Mikkel Poulsen (DEN)	90	64	90	96	80	83	88	90	93	85
3	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (JPN)	85	80	85	93	98	84	79	96	66	85
5	Oh Eun-su (KOR)	—	—	93	80	86	78	83	78	92	84
6	Matt Hamilton (USA)	93	76	86	90	82	67	78	71	95	82
7	Christoffer Svae (NOR)	75	85	95	69	90	76	80	81	75	81
7	Peter de Cruz (SUI)	76	79	85	81	79	93	80	78	83	81
7	Kyle Waddell (GBR)	82	80	84	81	81	75	83	89	77	81
10	Simone Gonin (ITA)	85	79	75	85	76	69	84	78	90	80

Third

#	Curler	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total
1	Oskar Eriksson (SWE)	86	93	95	88	88	91	86	89	86	89
1	Marc Kennedy (CAN)	86	83	89	95	89	96	90	90	83	89
3	Claudio Pätz (SUI)	91	91	88	91	83	74	77	74	85	84
4	Torger Nergård (NOR)	83	86	91	74	93	68	91	76	92	83
4	Seong Se-hyeon (KOR)	83	85	76	84	88	74	83	85	94	83
6	Johnny Frederiksen (DEN)	84	70	88	81	74	92	76	86	80	81
6	Thomas Muirhead (GBR)	80	68	83	81	82	89	74	89	86	81
8	Tetsuro Shimizu (JPN)	88	80	79	80	95	58	76	79	78	79
8	Tyler George (USA)	83	78	72	78	89	74	80	75	86	79
10	Joël Retornaz (ITA)	71	83	73	88	80	81	69	85	78	78

Fourth

#	Curler	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total
1	Niklas Edin (SWE)	91	96	83	84	99	77	70	86	73	85
1	Kevin Koe (CAN)	86	86	83	88	75	83	83	96	86	85
3	Benoît Schwarz (SUI)	70	78	81	88	80	82	95	90	76	82
4	Amos Mosaner (ITA)	80	94	83	72	72	86	86	58	89	81
5	Thomas Ulsrud (NOR)	78	78	84	83	78	79	64	83	94	80
6	Kyle Smith (GBR)	80	71	84	82	65	72	83	96	72	78
7	Yusuke Morozumi (JPN)	75	84	70	78	91	69	71	89	72	77
7	Kim Chang-min (KOR)	78	69	85	81	79	65	70	86	78	77
7	John Shuster (USA)	82	80	66	82	54	67	82	97	78	77
10	Rasmus Stjerne (DEN)	75	81	79	75	82	76	78	78	48	75