Eugene Hritzuk (born c. 1949) is a
Canadian
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curler from
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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. He is a former
World Senior men's champion skip.
Hritzuk has won two
provincial championships
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as skip, once in 1985 and again in 1988. This qualified him for
the Brier
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both times. At the
1985 Labatt Brier
The 1985 Labatt Brier was held from March 3 to 10 at the Moncton Coliseum in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Al Hackner of Northern Ontario defeated Pat Ryan of Alberta to win his second Brier title.
Teams
Round robin standings
Round robin results ...
, he finished the round robin with a 6-5 record. He had to play in two tie-breakers, which he won to get to the semi-final, where he lost to
Northern Ontario
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's
Al Hackner
Allan A. Hackner (born July 18, 1954), nicknamed "the Iceman", is a retired Canadian Hall of Fame curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was born in Nipigon, Ontario. He is a two-time Brier and World Champion skip. He is of Ojibwa descent and is ...
. At the
1988 Labatt Brier, he finished the Brier with an 8-3 record, and lost to Alberta's
Pat Ryan in the final. It would be his last Brier.
Since then, Hritzuk has been a successful seniors curler, and has represented Saskatchewan at the Canadian Seniors Championships in 2002,
2005
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,
2006
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,
2008
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,
2009
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and
2012
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. He won his first Canadian Seniors Championship in 2008. Hritzuk won the
World Senior Curling Championships
The World Senior Curling Championships is an annual curling tournament featuring curlers from around the world who are at least 50 years old. Matches at the World Senior Championships are played in 8 ends played instead of the 10 played in most in ...
in May 2009. Hritzuk has also represented Saskatchewan at the
Canadian Masters Curling Championships
The Canadian Masters Curling Championships are an annual curling
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in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018 winning the Canadian Masters Championship in 2014.
References
External links
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Living people
Curlers from Saskatoon
Canadian male curlers
Year of birth missing (living people)