John Shuster
| John Shuster | |
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| Curler ♂ | |
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| Born |
November 3, 1982 Chisholm, Minnesota |
| Team | |
| Curling club |
Duluth CC, Duluth, MN |
| Skip | John Shuster |
| Third | Tyler George |
| Second | Matt Hamilton |
| Lead | John Landsteiner |
| Alternate | Joe Polo |
| Career | |
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World Championship appearances |
7 (2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017) |
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Olympic appearances |
3 (2006, 2010, 2014) |
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Medal record
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John Shuster (/ˈʃuːstər/; born November 3, 1982) is an American curler from Superior, Wisconsin. He won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and has played in seven (2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017) World Curling Championships.
Shuster began his international career playing lead for the Pete Fenson rink. He would play in his first Worlds at the 2003 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, where the U.S. would finish 8th. The rink returned to the Worlds at the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, where the team would lose in a tiebreaker game, after posing an 8-3 round robin record. The team would go on to play at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won a bronze medal. After the season, Shuster left the rink to form his own team.
Shuster would play in his first Worlds as a skip at the 2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Moncton, New Brunswick, finishing with a 7-4 record and losing in a tiebreaker match against Norway to finish fifth. Shuster won the 2010 United States Olympic Curling Trials and represented the United States at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. After Shuster missed several crucial last-rock shots in three of the United States' first four matches in the 2010 Winter Olympics, U.S. coaches took the unusual step of benching Shuster and replacing him with alternate Chris Plys. Plys threw third rocks as skip, with Jason Smith throwing fourth rocks. In their first match after Shuster's benching, the U.S. won their first match of the tournament when they stole a point from France in the 10th end. Shuster returned to the ice in the next match, throwing third rocks against Sweden, whom the U.S. defeated. Plys returned to replace lead John Benton against world champion David Murdoch and Great Britain, but a 4–2 loss dropped the Americans to 2–5, all but assuring they would not qualify for the medal round.
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