Otaegi1-8 at World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship

Oihane Otaegi (San Sebastian, ESP) finished 1-8 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Otaegi lost 5-2 to Italy's Stefania Constantini, droppimg another game, 7-3 to Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR). Otaegi lost 10-2 to Marie Kaldvee (Tallinn, EST). Otaegi lost 7-4 to Lena Kapp (Fuessen, GER). Otaegi lost 7-4 to Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN). Otaegi lost 8-1 to Briar Schwaller (Bern, SUI) where Otaegi responded with a 10-6 win over Kseniya Shevchuk (Megeve, FRA). Otaegi went on to lose 10-7 against Jasmin Lander (Hvidovre, DEN). Otaegi lost 9-3 to Kristin Moen Skaslien (Oslo, NOR) in their final qualifying round match.

Otaegi earned 4.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 840th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 0.376 after improving upon their best so far this season. Otaegi ranks 51st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 43.876 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	23	18	0	0.561	3-4	2-1	0-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	298	251	243	8.42	8.15	0.27	5.34	4.66	1.58	1.75	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	140	160	63	0	4-1	8-4	32-9	1.14	0.45	0.31	0.31

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	158	91	180	0	2-9	5-14	13-25	0.58	1.14	0.50	0.39

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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