Ulsrud6-3 at 2018 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

SKIP
Thomas
Ulsrud

Third
Torger
Nergaard

Second
Christoffer
Svae

Lead
Haavard Vad
Petersson

Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) finished 6-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ulsrud defeated Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS) 11-3, then went on to lose 8-6 against Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI). Ulsrud responded with a 6-3 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Ulsrud won 7-2 against David Misun (Martin, SVK), then won 8-5 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) and 7-4 against Sebastian Wunderer (Kitzbuhel, AUT). Ulsrud went on to lose 8-7 against Kyle Smith (Perth, SCO). Ulsrud lost 9-7 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) where Ulsrud responded with a 6-4 win over Alexander Baumann (Baden-Baden, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

Ulsrud earned 26.009 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships, dropping 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 10th place overall with 426.843 total points. Ulsrud ranks 14th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 152.516 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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