Joshua Sutor
{{Short description|German curler (born 1999)}}
{{Infobox curler
| name = Joshua Sutor
| image =
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1999|10|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Füssen, Germany
| Curling club = Baden Hills G&CC,
Füssen, GER{{Cite web|url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2021/04/2021-OK-Tire-BKT-Tires-World-Mens-Curling-Championship-media-guide-4.pdf|title=2021 BKT Tires-OK Tires World Men's Curling Championship Media Guide|website=Curling Canada|access-date=April 3, 2021}}
| Skip = Sixten Totzek
| Third = Joshua Sutor
| Second = Magnus Sutor
| Lead = Jan-Luca Häg
| Alternate = Benny Kapp
| Mixed doubles partner = Pia-Lisa Schöll
| Member Association = {{GER}}
| World Championship appearances = 2 ({{WMCC|2021}}, {{WMCC|2022}})
| World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances = 1 ({{WMDCC|2025}})
| European Championship appearances = 4 ({{EuCC|2019}}, {{EuCC|2021}}, {{EuCC|2022}}, {{EuCC|2023}})
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Joshua Sutor (born 26 October 1999) is a German curler from Pfronten, Germany. He currently plays third on the Sixten Totzek rink.
Career
=Juniors=
Sutor played in three World Junior-B Curling Championships during his junior career in 2016, 2018 and 2019. He was the alternate for the Marc Muskatewitz rink in 2016, second for the Klaudius Harsch rink in 2018 and third for Sixten Totzek in 2019.{{Cite web|url=http://results.worldcurling.org/Person/Details/7911|title=Joshua Sutor Profile|website=World Curling Federation|access-date=April 3, 2021}} After losing the qualifying game in 2016, his team won the bronze medal game at the 2018 World Junior B Curling Championships, sending them to the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships. At the championship, the team just missed the playoffs with a 4–5 record after losing their final round robin draw to Canada's Tyler Tardi. Their fifth-place finish earned the team a spot at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships without having to qualify through the B Championship. They did not have a good performance at the 2019 championship, finishing with a 3–6 round robin record and being relegated to the B Championship for the following season. They would, however, qualify again through the 2019 World Junior-B Curling Championships in December 2019 to secure a spot at the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships.{{Cite news|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1090659/korea-japan-russia-world-junior-curling|title=Three women's teams remain unbeaten on day two of World Junior Curling Championships|publisher=Inside The Games|author=Michael Houston|date=February 16, 2020|access-date=April 3, 2021}} There, Sutor would have his best finish to date, qualifying for the playoffs for the first time with a 6–3 record.{{Cite news|url=https://www.curling.ca/blog/2020/02/19/semifinal-bound/|title=Semifinal Bound!|work=Curling Canada|date=February 19, 2020|access-date=April 3, 2021}} They then lost to Canada's Jacques Gauthier in the semifinal 7–4 and Scotland's James Craik in the bronze medal game 6–5, settling for fourth place.
=Mens=
Sutor competed in his first European Curling Championship in 2019 as second for the German team. There, his team finished with a 3–6 record. The team was set to represent Germany at the 2020 World Men's Curling Championship before the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/curling/2020/03/14/mens-curling-world-championship-in-scotland-cancelled-due-to-covid-19.html|title=Men's curling world championship in Scotland cancelled due to COVID-19|website=The Star|author=The Canadian Press|date=March 14, 2020|access-date=April 3, 2021}}{{Cite news|url=https://worldcurling.org/2020/03/wmcc2020-cancelled/|title=LGT World Men's Curling Championship 2020 cancelled in Glasgow, Scotland|website=World Curling Federation|publisher=World Curling Federation|date=March 14, 2020|access-date=April 3, 2021|archive-date=March 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319051318/https://worldcurling.org/2020/03/wmcc2020-cancelled/|url-status=dead}}
Sutor remained as the German National Team's second for the 2020–21 season. They represented Germany at the 2021 World Men's Curling Championship in Calgary, Alberta{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/curling/team-by-team-look-into-men-s-world-curling-championships-field-1.5971155|title=A team-by-team look at the men's world curling championship field|website=CBC|author=Donna Spencer|date=March 31, 2021|access-date=April 3, 2021}} where they finished with a 4–9 record.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/curling/article/2021-world-mens-curling-championship-scores-schedule-standings-results/|title=2021 World men's curling championship: Scores, schedule and standings|website=Sportsnet|access-date=April 10, 2021}} The Totzek rink would again represent Germany at the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship, where they improved their performance after completing the round robin with a 6–6 record, but missing out on the playoffs due to their cumulative last stone draw record compared to other tied teams, finishing 7th. At the end of the season, Sutor announced he would be leaving the team.
After leaving the Totzek team the year prior, Sutor and Totzek would reunite again in the 2023-24 curling season. In their first event of the new season, Team Totzek won the German European Trials in a 3–2 series over Benny Kapp.{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?eventid=8194&view=Main#1|title=2023 German European Trials|website=CurlingZone|access-date=August 22, 2024}} This earned the team the right to compete in the 2023 European Curling Championships, where they had their best start ever, winning their first three games.{{Cite news|url=https://worldcurling.org/2023/11/ecc2023-daytwo/|title=Four teams remain undefeated after two days of play in Aberdeen|publisher=World Curling Federation|date=November 19, 2023|access-date=August 22, 2024}} They then lost five of their last six games to finish just outside the playoffs with a 4–5 record.{{Cite news|url=https://worldcurling.org/2023/11/end-round-robin-ecc2023/|title=Semi-final field complete at the Europeans|publisher=World Curling Federation|date=November 23, 2023|access-date=August 22, 2024}} Despite qualifying Germany for the 2024 World Men's Curling Championship, Team Kapp won the German Men's Curling Championship and were chosen to represent the country at the World Championships.{{Cite news|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C299SqJt8RZ/?img_index=1|title=German Men's Champion and World Men's Championship Trials Winner 🏆|publisher=@teamkapp.roehrs|website=Instagram|date=February 5, 2024|access-date=August 22, 2024}} The Totzek rink would fail to represent Germany in the 2024-25 curling season, losing the final of both the 2024 German European Curling Trials, and the 2025 German Men's Curling Championship to Marc Muskatewitz.{{Cite news|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DF2yVXBNTn_/?img_index=1|title=DM 2025 in Hamburg (07-09 Feb) Team MUSKATEWITZ wird DEUTSCHER MEISTER 2025 🏆|publisher=@teamdeutschland_curling|website=Instagram|date=February 9, 2025|access-date=February 11, 2025}}
=Mixed Doubles=
Sutor began playing mixed doubles curling with Pia-Lisa Schöll in the 2024-25 season, where they represented Germany at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.
Personal life
Awards and honours
World Junior Curling Championships – Men's Sportsmanship Award 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://www.facebook.com/WorldCurlingFederation/posts/2832927260058481|title=Congratulations to Germany’s Joshua Sutor and Sweden’s Maria Larsson on winning the Sportsmanship awards at the World Juniors!|publisher=World Curling Federation|date=February 24, 2019|access-date=April 3, 2021}}
Teams
| class="wikitable"
! scope="col"| Season ! scope="col"| Skip ! scope="col"| Third ! scope="col"| Second ! scope="col"| Lead ! scope="col"| Alternate | ||||
| scope="row"| 2015–16{{Cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/player.php?playerid=37288&view=Teams#1|title=Joshua Sutor Past Teams|website=CurlingZone|access-date=April 3, 2021}}
| Marc Muskatewitz || Sixten Totzek || Michael Wiest || Sebastian Oswald || Joshua Sutor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope="row"| 2017–18
| Sixten Totzek (Fourth) || Klaudius Harsch (Skip) || Joshua Sutor || Jan-Luca Häg || Till Wunderlich | ||||
| scope="row"| 2018–19
| Sixten Totzek (Fourth) || Klaudius Harsch (Skip) || Joshua Sutor || Magnus Sutor || Jan-Luca Häg | ||||
| scope="row" rowspan=2| 2019–20
| Sixten Totzek || Joshua Sutor || Jan-Luca Häg || Magnus Sutor || Klaudius Harsch | ||||
| Marc Muskatewitz | Sixten Totzek | Joshua Sutor | Dominik Greindl | Benny Kapp |
| scope="row"| 2020–21
| Sixten Totzek || Marc Muskatewitz || Joshua Sutor || Dominik Greindl || Klaudius Harsch | ||||
| scope="row"| 2021–22
| Sixten Totzek || Marc Muskatewitz || Joshua Sutor || Dominik Greindl || Magnus Sutor | ||||
| scope="row"| 2023–24
| Sixten Totzek || Joshua Sutor || Magnus Sutor || Jan-Luca Häg || Benny Kapp | ||||
| scope="row"| 2024–25
| Sixten Totzek || Joshua Sutor || Jan-Luca Häg || Magnus Sutor || |
References
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