Nielsen4-5 at 2014 Olympic Winter Games

Hvidovre, Denmark

SKIP
Lene
Nielsen

Third
Helle
Simonsen

Second
Jeanne
Ellegaard

Lead
Maria
Poulsen

Games:	9
Record:	4W - 5L
PF/G:	6.63
PA/G:	6.51
Hammer Efficiency:	0.41
Steal Defense:	0.26
Force Efficiency:	0.61
Steal Efficiency:	0.23

Lene Nielsen (Hvidovre, DEN) finished 4-5 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nielsen lost 7-4 to Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS), droppimg another game, 7-6 to Mirjam Ott (Davos, SUI). Nielsen lost 8-3 to Ayumi Ogasawara (Sapporo, JPN). Nielsen lost 8-5 to Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, CAN). Nielsen lost 7-6 to Margaretha Sigfridsson (Harnosand, SWE) where Nielsen responded with a 9-2 win over Erika Brown (Madison, USA). Nielsen won 9-6 against Bingyu Wang (Harbin, CHN), then won 7-4 against Ji-Sun Kim (Gyeong gi do, KOR) and 8-7 against Eve Muirhead (Stirling, UK) in their final qualifying round match.

Nielsen earned 12.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 23rd place overall with 99.430 total points. Nielsen ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 36.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	26	28	0	0.481	9-8	13-15	4-4	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	445	326	306	7.33	6.88	0.45	4.54	4.45	1.61	1.55	1.01

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	214	224	79	24	3-0	15-4	48-18	1.05	0.37	0.35	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	231	102	227	21	2-1	7-11	16-57	0.44	0.98	0.52	0.28

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