CHAMPION: Stocker Wins 2023 Tallinn Mens International Challenger

SKIP
Yves
Stocker

Third
Kim
Schwaller

Second
Felix
Eberhard

Lead
Tom
Winkelhausen

Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) won 10-4 over Sweden's Fredrik Nyman in the Final of the Tallinn Mens International Challenger, held September 28 - October 1, 2023 at the Tondiraba Ice Hall in Tallinn, Estonia. To advance to the championship game, Stocker won 6-5 over Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) in the semifinals of the 2023 Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonia; and won 5-3 over Lukas Hostmaelingen (Oslo, NOR) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonia;

Stocker finished 5-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Stocker defeated Jan Iseli (Solothun, SUI) 7-0, then won 7-3 against Andreas Harstad (Oppdal, NOR) and 7-4 against Simon Spits (Zoetermeer, NED). Stocker won 7-3 against Eduard Veltsman (Tallinn, EST), then won 7-1 against Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Tallinn Mens International Challenger Championship title, Stocker earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $1,724CDN first prize cheque. Stocker move up 5 spots after posting a net gain of -2.922 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 34th overall with 110.016 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Stocker ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 45.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	57	26	0	0.687	8-3	7-7	2-3	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	567	510	361	8.99	6.37	2.63	5.01	4.16	1.80	1.53	0.83

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	281	362	77	26	13-1	24-3	78-10	1.29	0.27	0.45	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	286	148	284	21	5-4	13-18	17-57	0.52	0.99	0.56	0.30

2023: Yves Stocker
Yves Stocker, Kim Schwaller, Felix Eberhard, Tom Winkelhausen
Zug, SUI
2022: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2021: Marco Hoesli
Marco Hoesli, Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Jermu Pollanen
Jere Sullanmaa, Jason Moore, Iikko Santti, Jermu Poellaenen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2018: Ilya Shalamitski
Ilya Shalamitski, Pavel Petrov, Dzimitry Rudnitski, Yevgeny Tamkovich
Minsk, BLR

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