2012 World Men's Curling Championship - Teams

Here are the teams that will compete at the  2012 World Men's Curling Championship in St. Jakob Halle, Basel, Switzerland from Mar. 31st - Apr. 8th


Canada

Skip: Glenn Howard
Third: Wayne Middaugh
Second: Brent Laing
Lead: Craig Savill
Alternate: Scott Howard
Coach: Scott Taylor
Coldwater & District Curling Club, Coldwater, Ontario  

China

Skip: Liu Ru

Third: Xu Xiaoming

Second: Ba Dexin

Lead: Chen Lu'an

Alternate: Zang Jialiang
Coach: Hong Chen Li

Czech Republic

Skip: Jiří Snítil
Third: Martin Sníti
Second: Jindřich Kitzberger
Lead: Marek Vydra 
Alternate: Samuel Mokris 

Coach: Ellery Robichaud

CK Brno

Denmark

Skip: Rasmus Stjerne
Third: Johnny Frederiksen 
Second: Mikkel Poulsen 
Lead: Troels Harry
Alternate: Lars Vilandt
Coach: James Dryburgh
Hvidovre Curling Club 

France

Skip: Thomas Dufour

Fourth: Tony Angiboust 

Second: Lionel Roux
Lead: Wilfrid Coulot
Alternate: Jérémy Frarier 

Coach: Jérémy Frarier 

Chamonix Curling Club

Germany

Skip: John Jahr

Fourth: Felix Schulze
Second: Christopher Daase 
Lead: Sven Goldmann 
Alternate: Peter Rickmers 

Coach: Martin Beiser

Curling Club Hamburg  

New Zealand

Skip: Peter de Boer

Third: Sean Becker

Second: Scott Becker

Lead: Kenny Thomson

Alternate: Phil Dowling

Coach: Peter Becker
Auckland Curling C lub

Norway

Skip: Thomas Ulsrud
Third: Torger Nergård
Second: Christoffer Svae
Lead: Håvard Vad Petersson 
Alternate: Thomas Løvold 
Coach:  Ole Ingvaldsen 
Snarøen Curling Club, Oslo  

Scotland

Skip: Tom Brewster

Third: Greg Drummond

Second: Scott Andrews

Lead: Michael Goodfel
Alternate: David Edwards

Coach: Ronald Brewster

Curl Aberdeen

Sweden

Skip: Sebastian Kraupp*

Third: Fredrik Lindberg
Second: Viktor Kjäll
Lead: Oskar Eriksson 
Alternate: Niklas Edin

Coach: Eva Lund
Karlstads CK 

*Due to back injury to Niklas Edin Sweden was skipped by Sebastian Kraupp.

Switzerland

Skip: Jan Hauser

Fourth: Toni Müller

Second: Marco Ramstein

Lead: Jürg Bamert

Alternate: Benoît Schwarz
Coach: Andreas Schwaller

Glarus Curling Club, Glarus

United States

Skip: Heath McCormick
Third:  Bill Stopera
Second: Martin Sather
Lead: Dean Gemmell 
Alternate: Craig Brown 

Coach: Matt Hames

Plainfield Curling Club, South Plainfield, New Jersey 

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