Granbom Runner-Up at Swedish Curling Championships

SKIP
Simon
Granbom

Third
Axel
Sjoeberg

Second
Fabian
Wingfors

Lead
Jacob
Hanna

Simon Granbom (Gavle, SWE) lost 5-3 to Sweden's Fredrik Nyman in the Final of the Swedish Curling Championships, held January 31 - February 4 in Jonkoping, Sweden. To advance to the championship game, Granbom won 10-4 over Axel Rosander (Norrkoping, SWE) in the semifinals of the Swedish Curling Championships in Jonkoping, Sweden; Simon Granbom (Gavle, SWE) qualified for the Swedish Curling Championships playoffs, set to play their quarterfinals match against Mats Wrana (Sundbyberg, SWE).

Granbom finished 2-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Granbom defeated Magnus Heldin (Uppsala, SWE) 9-3, then won 9-2 against Johan Bergman (Sundbyberg, SWE). Granbom went on to lose 9-1 against Johan Nygren (Umea, SWE). Granbom lost 6-4 to Claes Mattsson (Jonkoping, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Swedish Curling Championships, Granbom take home 5.500 world rankings points. Granbom gained -5.594 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 17 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 157thplace overall with 9.625 total points. Granbom ranks 158th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	11	9	0	0.550	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	139	124	101	8.92	7.27	1.65	4.89	4.60	1.82	1.58	0.50

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	74	89	27	5	4-0	7-0	15-5	1.20	0.36	0.38	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	65	35	74	2	0-2	3-3	8-18	0.54	1.14	0.45	0.32

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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