The 2022
Stu Sells Toronto Tankard was held from September 29 to October 2 at the
High Park Club in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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. The event was held in a
triple knockout format with a purse of $40,000 on the men's side and $20,000 on the women's side. It was the first Stu Sells sponsored event held as part of the
2022–23 season.
In the men's event, Sweden's
Niklas Edin
Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (W ...
rink continued their strong play from the
2022 Oslo Cup. After starting with an opening draw loss, the team of Edin,
Oskar Eriksson
Oskar Ingemar Eriksson (born 29 May 1991) is a Swedish curler from Karlstad. He currently plays third for the Niklas Edin rink. He is the first curler in history to win four Olympic medals – gold, silver, and two bronze – and the first to ...
,
Rasmus Wranå
Rasmus Bele Åke Wranå (born 15 November 1994) is a Swedish curler from Karlstad. He currently plays second for the Swedish national team, skipped by Niklas Edin. With his teammates Edin, Oskar Eriksson, and Christoffer Sundgren, Wranå beca ...
and
Christoffer Sundgren
Kjell Tommy Christoffer Sundgren (born 31 July 1989) is a Swedish curler. He currently plays lead for the Swedish national team, skipped by Niklas Edin. The World Curling Federation's historical records rank Sundgren as one of the most successfu ...
won six straight games to claim the championship title. In the final, they defeated Norway's
Magnus Ramsfjell
Magnus Ramsfjell (born 17 July 1997 in Tønsberg) is a Norwegian curler from Trondheim.
Career Juniors
Ramsfjell was the skip of the Norwegian junior men's team in four straight World Junior Curling Championships from 2016 to 2019. At the 201 ...
7–3 with a score of three points in the eighth end. To advance to the final, Edin won 5–4 over Switzerland's
Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva.
Career
Juniors
Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champ ...
in an extra end semifinal while in the other, Ramsfjell defeated Nova Scotia's
Travis Colter
Travis Colter (born October 15, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He currently plays second on Team Stuart Thompson. He was a member of the 2019 Nova Scotia men's championship rink that competed at the 2019 Tim Hortons Br ...
5–2. Sam Mooibroek,
Joël Retornaz
Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022.
Retornaz gained sudden renown in It ...
,
Tanner Horgan and Yves Stocker all qualified for the playoffs but lost in the quarterfinals.
The women's event final saw Switzerland's
Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is currently the reigning women's world champion skip having won the last three championships, in 2019, 2021 and . Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2022 ...
rink of Tirinzoni,
Alina Pätz
Alina Pätz (born 8 March 1990 in Urdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss curler. She currently throws fourth stones on Team Silvana Tirinzoni. She is a five-time world champion and was the alternate player for the Mirjam Ott rink, which represented ...
,
Carole Howald and
Briar Schwaller-Hürlimann
Briar Schwaller-Hürlimann (born 30 September 1993 as Briar Hürlimann) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. She is currently the alternate on Team Corrie Hürlimann. She won a World Women's Championship for Switzerland playing lead for Team Si ...
cap off an undefeated weekend with a narrow 6–5 victory over Ontario's
Isabelle Ladouceur. This was the second title of the 2022–23 season for Team Tirinzoni as they also won the Summer Series event in August. In the semifinals, the Swiss rink beat South Korea's
Kim Eun-jung 6–2 in a rematch of the
2022 World Women's Curling Championship
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gold medal game while in the other, Team Ladouceur downed Ottawa's
Lauren Mann 9–4. Other teams that qualified for the women's playoff round include
Hailey Armstrong,
Andrea Kelly,
Delaney Strouse
Delaney Strouse (born July 12, 2000) is an American curler from Midland, Michigan. She currently skips her own team out of Traverse City. She is a two-time champion of the United States Junior Curling Championships, going on to win the bronze ...
and
Danielle Inglis.
The event featured many international teams such as Edin, Retornaz, Schwaller, Kim and Tirinzoni as it was held the weekend before the
2022 National Grand Slam
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event.
Men
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Knockout brackets
Source:
A event
B event
C event
Knockout results
All draw times are listed in
Eastern Time
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(
UTC−04:00).
Draw 1
''Thursday, September 29, 8:00 am''
Draw 2
''Thursday, September 29, 10:30 am''
Draw 3
''Thursday, September 29, 1:30 pm''
Draw 4
''Thursday, September 29, 4:00 pm''
Draw 5
''Thursday, September 29, 7:00 pm''
Draw 6
''Thursday, September 29, 9:30 pm''
Draw 7
''Friday, September 30, 8:00 am''
Draw 8
''Friday, September 30, 10:30 am''
Draw 9
''Friday, September 30, 1:30 pm''
Draw 10
''Friday, September 30, 4:00 pm''
Draw 11
''Friday, September 30, 7:00 pm''
Draw 12
''Friday, September 30, 9:30 pm''
Draw 13
''Saturday, October 1, 8:00 am''
Draw 14
''Saturday, October 1, 10:30 am''
Draw 15
''Saturday, October 1, 1:30 pm''
Draw 16
''Saturday, October 1, 4:00 pm''
Draw 17
''Saturday, October 1, 7:00 pm''
Draw 18
''Saturday, October 1, 10:00 pm''
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
''Sunday, October 2, 8:00 am''
Semifinals
''Sunday, October 2, 2:00 pm''
Final
''Sunday, October 2, 5:00 pm''
Women
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Knockout brackets
Source:
A event
B event
C event
Knockout results
All draw times are listed in
Eastern Time
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small por ...
(
UTC−04:00).
Draw 1
''Thursday, September 29, 8:00 am''
Draw 2
''Thursday, September 29, 10:30 am''
Draw 3
''Thursday, September 29, 1:30 pm''
Draw 4
''Thursday, September 29, 4:00 pm''
Draw 5
''Thursday, September 29, 7:00 pm''
Draw 6
''Thursday, September 29, 9:30 pm''
Draw 7
''Friday, September 30, 8:00 am''
Draw 8
''Friday, September 30, 10:30 am''
Draw 9
''Friday, September 30, 1:30 pm''
Draw 10
''Friday, September 30, 4:00 pm''
Draw 11
''Friday, September 30, 7:00 pm''
Draw 12
''Friday, September 30, 9:30 pm''
Draw 13
''Saturday, October 1, 8:00 am''
Draw 14
''Saturday, October 1, 10:30 am''
Draw 15
''Saturday, October 1, 1:30 pm''
Draw 16
''Saturday, October 1, 4:00 pm''
Draw 17
''Saturday, October 1, 7:00 pm''
Draw 18
''Saturday, October 1, 10:00 pm''
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
''Sunday, October 2, 11:00 am''
Semifinals
''Sunday, October 2, 2:00 pm''
Final
''Sunday, October 2, 5:00 pm''
Notes
References
External links
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