Ulsrud6-1 at 2016 Qinghai China Men's International

SKIP
Thomas
Ulsrud

Third
Torger
Nergaard

Second
Christoffer
Svae

Lead
Haavard Vad
Petersson

Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ulsrud defeated Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS) 8-2, then won 7-2 against Mingjie Yuan (HARBIN, CHN) and 10-3 against Craig Brown (Blaine, USA). Ulsrud won 12-8 against Krystof Tabery (Prague, CZE). Ulsrud went on to lose 5-4 against William Lyburn (Winnipeg, CAN). Ulsrud responded with a 10-9 win over Marc Pfister (Adelboden, SUI). Ulsrud won 8-6 against Gustav Eskilsson (Skellefteï¿½, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Qinghai China Men's International Championship title, Ulsrud earned 19.688 world rankings points along with the $13,331CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 11th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 420.158 total points. Ulsrud ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 231.482 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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