CHAMPION: Totzek Wins 2022 Aberdeen International Curling Championship

SKIP
Sixten
Totzek

Third
Marc
Muskatewitz

Second
Joshua
Sutor

Lead
Dominik
Greindl

Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER) won 7-4 over Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA) in the Final of the Aberdeen International Curling Championship, held March 17 - 20, 2022 in Aberdeen, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Totzek won 8-4 over Ross Whyte (Stirling, SCO) in the semifinals

Totzek finished 4-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Totzek defeated Andreas Harstad (Oppdal, NOR) 8-5, then won 7-0 against Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER) and 9-7 against Whyte. Totzek won 6-1 against David Sik (Prague, CZE). Totzek went on to lose 5-4 against James Craik (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Aberdeen International Curling Championship Championship title, Totzek earned 28.076 world rankings points along with the $4,133CDN first prize cheque. Totzek move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of 25.404 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 24th overall with 121.491 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Totzek ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 121.491 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	43	40	0	0.518	10-8	4-16	2-4	2-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	640	481	451	7.52	7.05	0.47	4.48	4.44	1.68	1.59	1.08

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	325	361	96	43	11-1	25-3	67-13	1.11	0.30	0.37	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	315	120	355	26	1-8	7-22	24-77	0.38	1.13	0.49	0.25

2023: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2022: Sixten Totzek
Sixten Totzek, Marc Muskatewitz , Joshua Sutor, Dominik Greindl
Munich, GER
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2019: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2018: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2017: Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie, Blair Fraser, Dave Reid, Duncan Menzies
Dumfries, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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