CHAMPION: Ulsrud Wins 2014 World Curling Championship

SKIP
Thomas
Ulsrud

Third
Torger
Nergaard

Second
Christoffer
Svae

Lead
Haavard Vad
Petersson

Thomas Ulsrud (Snaroen, NOR) won 8-3 over Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE) in the Final of the World Curling Championship, held March 29 - April 6, 2014 in Beijing, China.

Ulsrud finished 10-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ulsrud defeated Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) 9-5, then won 8-3 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN) and 9-5 against Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE). Ulsrud won 6-3 against Eriksson, then won 5-3 against Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN). Ulsrud went on to lose 7-6 against Johnny Jahr (Hamburg, GER). Ulsrud responded with a 9-5 win over Kevin Koe (Edmonton, CAN). Ulsrud won 6-4 against Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO), then won 11-2 against Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS) and 6-4 against Pete Fenson (Bemidji, USA). Ulsrud won 7-6 against Peter de Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Curling Championship Championship title, Ulsrud earned 45.000 world rankings points. Ulsrud move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 40.92 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 9th overall with 282.995 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ulsrud ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 178.570 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	65	25	0	0.722	43-12	22-11	13-8	5-0	1-6

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	743	577	408	7.77	5.49	2.27	4.63	3.88	1.68	1.42	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	367	452	69	54	9-2	32-1	96-10	1.23	0.19	0.44	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	376	125	339	57	2-4	8-9	20-71	0.33	0.90	0.65	0.22

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