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{{Short description|Canadian curler}}
{{distinguish|Patrick Jansen}}
{{Infobox curler
| name = Patrick Janssen
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1987|5|12|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Scarborough, Toronto|Scarborough]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| Curling club = [[Oshawa Golf & Country Club|Oshawa G&CC]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2021/03/Home-Hardware-Canadian-Mixed-Doubles-media-guide-web.pdf|title=2021 Home Hardware Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Media Guide|website=Curling Canada|access-date=March 15, 2021}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />[[Oshawa, Ontario|Oshawa, ON]]
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| Member Association = {{ON}} (2009–2019; 2022–present) <br> {{AB}} (2020–2022)
| Brier appearances = 4 ({{Brier|2018}}, {{Brier|2020}}, {{Brier|2021}}, {{Brier|2022}})
| Top CCA ranking = 5th ([[2015–16 curling season|2015–16]] & [[2016–17 curling season|2016–17]])
| Grand Slam victories = 1 ([[2015 Meridian Canadian Open|2015 Canadian Open]]) 
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Curling]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{CAN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Tim Hortons Brier]] }}
{{MedalBronze| [[2022 Tim Hortons Brier|2022 Lethbridge]] | }}
{{MedalCountry|{{ON}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Tim Hortons Brier]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2018 Tim Hortons Brier|2018 Regina]] | }}
{{MedalCountry | {{AB}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Tim Hortons Brier]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[2021 Tim Hortons Brier|2021 Calgary]] | }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2020 Tim Hortons Brier|2020 Kingston]] | }}
}}

'''Patrick "Pat" Janssen''' (born May 12, 1987) is a Canadian [[curling|curler]] from [[Burlington, Ontario]].<ref name="Media Guide"/>

==Career==
===Youth===
Janssen [[skip (curling)|skip]]ped the [[University of Toronto]] men's curling team at the [[2010 CIS/CCA Curling Championships]], finishing with a 4–3 record. In 2005 he won the provincial schoolboy championship playing for his high school, [[Sir Oliver Mowat Collegiate Institute]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gorecurling.com/ |title=Gore Mutual Provincial Curling Championships |access-date=2017-12-08 |archive-date=2017-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209153609/http://www.gorecurling.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Men's===
Janssen joined the [[Mark Kean]] rink in 2010, playing second on the team. In 2011, the team played in their first [[Grand Slam of Curling|Grand Slam]] event, the [[2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (January)|January 2011 Canadian Open]]. The team finished the event with an 0–5 record. Also that season, the team made it to their first provincial championship, the 2011 [[2011 The Dominion Tankard|Dominion Tankard]]. There, the team finished with a 6–4 record, missing the playoffs.

In the 2011–12 season, the Kean rink played in two slams, the [[2011 World Cup of Curling]] (0-5 record) and the [[2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (December)|December 2011 Canadian Open]] (1-4 record). The team played in the [[2012 The Dominion Tankard|2012]] Dominion Tankard, missing the playoffs with a 3–7 record.

In the 2012–13 season, the Team Kean had a better season on Tour, winning the [[2012 KW Fall Classic]] and playing in four slams. They played in the [[2012 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling – Men's event|2012 Masters of Curling]] (0-5 record), the [[2012 Canadian Open of Curling]] (semifinalists), the [[2013 The National|2013 National]] (1-4 record) and the [[2013 Players' Championship]] (0-4).  The team did not qualify for the men's provincial championship that season.

The rink played in the [[2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Pre-Trials]], finishing with a 1–3 record, and not qualifying for the Olympic Trials. They then played in the [[2013 Canadian Open of Curling]], losing in the quarterfinals. The team disbanded mid-season, but Janssen would play in two more Slams that year, playing second for [[Travis Fanset]] at the [[2014 The National (March)|March 2014 National]] going 0-5 and playing second for John Epping at the [[2014 Players' Championship]], losing in the quarterfinals.

The next season, Janssen remained on the Epping rink. Early on in the season, they won the 2014 Village of Taunton Mills [[Gord Carroll Curling Classic]]. They played in five slams that season, making it to the semifinals of the [[2014 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling|2014 Masters]] and [[2015 Players' Championship]], while missing the playoffs at the [[2014 The National (November)|November 2014 National]], the [[2014 Canadian Open of Curling]] and the [[2015 Elite 10]]. The team played in the [[2015 Ontario Tankard]] (men's provincials), making it to the final before losing to Janssen's former skip, Mark Kean.

In the 2015–16 season, Team Epping would play in seven Grand Slam events, winning the [[2015 Meridian Canadian Open]], the team's first Slam title. In the other slams, the team made lost in the finals of the [[2016 Humpty's Champions Cup]], made it to the semifinals of the [[2015 The National|2015 National]], the quarterfinals of the [[2016 Elite 10]], while the team missed the playoffs at the [[2015 GSOC Tour Challenge]], [[2015 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling|2015 Masters of Curling]], [[2016 Players' Championship]]. The team also played in the [[2015 Canada Cup of Curling]], where they made it to the semifinal. At the [[2016 Ontario Tankard]], the team again made it to the finals, but lost to Team [[Glenn Howard]] in the final. That season, the team also won the 2016 [[US Open of Curling]].

In the 2016–17 season, the Epping rink again played in all seven slams, making it to the semifinals of the [[2017 Humpty's Champions Cup]], the quarterfinals of the [[2016 WFG Masters]] and the [[2016 Boost National]], and missed the playoffs at the [[2016 GSOC Tour Challenge]], [[2017 Meridian Canadian Open]], the [[2017 Elite 10]] and the [[2017 Players' Championship]]. Elsewhere on the tour, the team won the 2016 [[CookstownCash presented by Comco Canada Inc.]] and the 2016 [[Challenge de Curling de Gatineau]]. At the [[2016 Canada Cup of Curling]], the team again lost in the semifinal. At the [[2017 Ontario Tankard]], the team lost in the semifinal against [[Wayne Tuck Jr.]]

The team played in the [[2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials]], but missed the playoffs. The team would win the [[2018 Ontario Tankard]], the first provincial championship for the team. They represented Ontario at the [[2018 Tim Hortons Brier]], where Epping led them to a bronze medal, after losing in the semifinal to Alberta, skipped by [[Brendan Bottcher]].

For the 2018–19 season, Janssen joined the team skipped by Charley Thomas as second, with [[Adam Casey (curler)|Adam Casey]] as third and Fraser Reid as lead.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=988456835735871488|user=teamcthomas|title=New Team: Skip Charley Thomas Third Adam Casey Second Patrick Janssen Lead Fraser Reid Looking forward to getting…<!-- full text of tweet that Twitter returned to the bot (excluding links) added by TweetCiteBot. This may be better truncated or may need expanding (TW limits responses to 140 characters) or case changes. --> |date=23 April 2018}}</ref>

Janssen spared for [[Karrick Martin]] on Team Bottcher at the 2019 [[Karuizawa International Curling Championship|Karuizawa International]] where the team finished 4th. He also spared for Bottcher and represented Alberta at the [[2020 Tim Hortons Brier]] in his home province of [[Kingston, Ontario]] where the team won a silver medal. He returned to the [[2021 Tim Hortons Brier|2021 Brier]], again as the alternate on Team Bottcher, where they finished second in their pool during round-robin play, with a 6–2 record. In the championship pool they improved their record to 9–3, earning the third seed in the playoffs where they defeated [[Matt Dunstone]]'s Team Saskatchewan in the semifinals to make it to their fourth Brier finals in a row.<ref>{{Cite news|date=March 14, 2021|title=Bottcher edges Dunstone to reach Brier final against Koe|work=TSN|url=https://www.tsn.ca/bottcher-edges-dunstone-in-semi-will-play-koe-in-brier-final-1.1607608|access-date=March 22, 2021}}</ref> Team Bottcher defeated four-time Brier champion Kevin Koe in the finals, with a score of 4–2, to win their first Brier championship.<ref>{{Cite news|date=March 14, 2021|title=Brendan Bottcher wins 1st career Brier|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/curling/curling-brier-championship-sunday-march-14-1.5949572|access-date=March 22, 2021}}</ref>

===Mixed doubles===
In mixed doubles play, Janssen and partner [[Clancy Grandy]] played in the [[2014 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials]], losing in the round of 12, and at the [[2015 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials]], losing in the quarterfinals.

==Personal life==
Janssen works as an engineering/operations manager with DP World Logistics. He is in a relationship with Becky Collins.<ref name="Media Guide">{{cite web |title=2023 PointsBet Invitational Media Guide|url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2023/09/2023-PointsBet-Invitational-media-guide-VER1.pdf|website=Curling Canada |date=September 2023 |accessdate=2023-09-24}}</ref> While a student at the University of Toronto, he studied industrial engineering.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.varsityblues.ca/roster.aspx?rp_id=1685&path=curling|title = Patrick Janssen - Men's Curling}}</ref> He was formerly married to fellow curler [[Clancy Grandy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.curling.ca/files/2022/09/2022-PointsBet-Invitational-media-guide-1.pdf|title=2022 Points Bet Invitational Media Guide|website=Curling Canada|access-date=September 17, 2022}}</ref>

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