page_title: Brad Gushue
section_title: Brier appearances
hierarchical_section_title: Brad Gushue / Career / Brier appearances
caption_attribution_description: English: Brad Gushue delivering a rock with Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker sweeping at the 2018 Elite 10 Grand Slam of Curling event in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
context_page_description: Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland 10–4. He is also the 2017 and 2018, and 2020 Tim Hortons Brier champion with teammates Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, and Geoff Walker. Their win in 2017 was Newfoundland and Labrador's first Brier title in 41 years. Gushue and his rink also won 2017 Ford World Men's Curling Championship. At the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier Gushue set a new record for Brier game wins as a skip, breaking a three-way tie with previous record-holders Russ Howard and Kevin Martin.
context_section_description: Gushue has played in 17 Briers, all for his native Newfoundland and Labrador except in 2018 and 2019 where, as defending champion, his rink was designated Team Canada. He made his first showing at the Brier (Canadian Men's National Championship) in 2003, and has continued to represent Newfoundland and Labrador each year since, except in 2006 when he was unable to participate due to being at the Olympics in Italy. In 2004, Brad Gushue was named the All Star skip at the Nokia Brier.
  In 2007 Gushue seemed ready to add a Brier title to his Olympic Gold, finishing the round robin a strong 8–3 for 2nd place, earning himself a spot in the "One vs. Two" playoff game, where he beat Ontario's Glenn Howard (who he had lost to in the round robin) with a calm, measured performance critics said he could not muster without Russ any longer with him to tame his overly aggressive tendencies.  His team thus advanced to the finals, where they would have a rematch with Howard, and this time would lose, in a game that would turn when in the 7th end tied 5-5 and with hammer, rather than taking 1, Brad tried an extremely difficult (many said impossible) shot for 3 or 4, which he would miss to give up a crucial steal of 2, firmly handing the momentum over to the Howard side.  This choice led to many of his critics again questioning his brash nature of wanting to go for the boldest shots unnecessarily at times, and questioning if he could ever win again without strategic mastermind Russ Howard still at his side.
  At the 2008 Brier, Gushue's team failed to make the playoffs, losing a tie-breaker to British Columbia's Bob Ursel.
  At the 2009 Brier, Team Gushue performed strongly, ending the round robin in 3rd place.  However a loss in the 3-4 game to eventual runner up Jeff Stoughton left him finishing the event in 4th place.
  In 2010 Gushue would again be a playoff team, ending the round robin in 4th place.  He would lose to eventual winner Kevin Koe in the 3-4 game however, for the 2nd straight year finishing in 4th place.
  During the 2011 Tim Horton's Brier event in London, The Gushue Rink won the first ever Brier Bronze Medal game, defeating Kevin Martin (Alberta) 10-5.  He had an excellent round robin, for the first time in his career finishing the round robin in 1st place at 9-2 (Jeff Stoughton and Kevin Martin were also 9-2 but had lost their round robin meetings with Gushue).   He would lose both the 1-2 game to Stoughton and semifinal to Glenn Howard though.  Still this would be his first podium finish at the Brier since his silver in 2007, and his 2nd ever.
  Gushue missed the playoffs at the 2012 Tim Hortons Brier, posting a 5-6 record.
  At the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier, his rink made the playoffs again after an 8-3 round robin record. However, the team would lose in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game against Northern Ontario, and then they would fall again in the bronze medal game to Ontario, settling for 4th.
  At the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier, Gushue missed the playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 Briers, posting a 6-5 record.
  At the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier, Gushue would have a great round-robin finishing 2nd at 9-2, including making the shot of the week to win in an extra end against AB. Said shot earned him an appearance on TSN SportsCentre's "1v1" segment and ultimately became the first athlete to retire as 1v1 Champion, winning the fan vote 10 times in a row against other spectacular plays in the world of sports. In the playoffs, Gushue would lose both the 1v2 game to Olympic Champion and 2013 Brier Champion Brad Jacobs, and the semifinal to eventual winner Pat Simmons. In the Bronze medal game against Steve Laycock's Saskatchewan team, Gushue would lose in an extra end when he missed a difficult runback shot.
  Gushue won the Ford Hot Shots skills competition at the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier.   He finally made his second Brier final 9 years after his loss to Glenn Howard in the 2007 Brier final, advancing by defeating his longtime nemesis Brad Jacobs in the 1-2 game, but as the favorite would fall to Kevin Koe who had come all the won from the 3-4 game.  Both t
caption: Brad Gushue makes a delivery at the 2018 Elite 10 event.
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