The 1993 Labatt Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship, was held from March 6 to 14^[1] at the Ottawa Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.^[2] The finals featured the all star Team Ontario, consisting of skip Russ Howard, his brother Glenn at third, second Wayne Middaugh and lead Peter Corner against a British Columbia team made up of two expatriate Brier winners in skip Rick Folk (1980 Brier champion for Saskatchewan) and third Pat Ryan (1988 & 1989 Brier champion for Alberta).

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (February 2012)

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1993 Labatt Brier
Host city	Ottawa, Ontario
Arena	Ottawa Civic Centre
Dates	March 6–14
Attendance	130,076
Winner	Ontario
Curling club	Penetanguishene CC, Penetanguishene
Skip	Russ Howard
Third	Glenn Howard
Second	Wayne Middaugh
Lead	Peter Corner
Alternate	Larry Merkley
Finalist	British Columbia (Rick Folk)
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The final was won by Ontario. Thanks to steals in the third and fourth ends, they were able to hold on to a victory by a score of 5–3 in the last Brier before the adoption of the free guard zone.

Glenn Howard, Middaugh and Corner would all later compete for Ontario as skips, and both Howard and Middaugh won Briers and World championships as skips.

The 1993 Brier featured first time skips Greg Ferster of Alberta and Alan O'Leary of Nova Scotia, 1980 Brier champion Rick Folk of British Columbia, the defending 1992 Brier champion Manitoba rink skipped by Vic Peters, 2nd time Brier skips Mike Kennedy of New Brunswick and Pierre Charette of Quebec, 3rd time Brier skips Gary Oke of Newfoundland and Trevor Alexander of the Territories, 3 time Brier champion Rick Lang of Northern Ontario, 1987 Brier champion Russ Howard of Ontario, 1989 Mixed champion Robert Campbell of Prince Edward Island and 1991 Brier runners up Randy Woytowich of Saskatchewan.

A series of tiebreakers were played between the four teams tied at first with an 8–3 record. Manitoba was seeded first, but lost both of their tiebreaker games, eliminating them from the three-team playoffs.

	Semifinals				Final
	Ontario	6
	Manitoba	4
					Ontario	3
					British Columbia	1
	Northern Ontario	3
	British Columbia	5			To Playoffs
					Manitoba	5
					Northern Ontario	6

Round 1

More information Sheet B, Final ...

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Ontario (Howard)	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	1	X	6
Manitoba (Peters)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	X	4

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More information Player percentages, Ontario ...

Player percentages
Ontario		Manitoba
Peter Corner	76%	Don Rudd	94%
Wayne Middaugh	88%	Chris Neufeld	85%
Glenn Howard	93%	Dan Carey	86%
Russ Howard	80%	Vic Peters	83%
Total	84%	Total	87%

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More information Sheet C, Final ...

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Northern Ontario (Lang)	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3
British Columbia (Folk)	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	5

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More information Player percentages, Northern Ontario ...

Player percentages
Northern Ontario		British Columbia
Art Lappalainen	90%	Gerry Richard	93%
Ross Tetley	75%	Bert Gretzinger	92%
Scott Henderson	75%	Pat Ryan	86%
Rick Lang	72%	Rick Folk	89%
Total	78%	Total	90%

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Round 2

More information Sheet B, Final ...

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Northern Ontario (Lang)	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	6
Manitoba (Peters)	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	5

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More information Player percentages, Northern Ontario ...

Player percentages
Northern Ontario		Manitoba
Art Lappalainen	94%	Don Rudd	78%
Ross Tetley	84%	Chris Neufeld	90%
Scott Henderson	78%	Dan Carey	78%
Rick Lang	69%	Vic Peters	81%
Total	81%	Total	82%

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More information Sheet C, Final ...

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
British Columbia (Folk)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	1
Ontario (Howard)	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	3

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More information Player percentages, British Columbia ...

Player percentages
British Columbia		Ontario
Gerry Richard	98%	Peter Corner	94%
Bert Gretzinger	95%	Wayne Middaugh	98%
Pat Ryan	95%	Glenn Howard	100%
Rick Folk	79%	Russ Howard	84%
Total	92%	Total	94%

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