CHAMPION: Paetz Wins 2015 World Women's Curling Championship

SKIP
Alina
Paetz

Third
Nadine
Lehmann

Second
Marisa
Winkelhausen

Lead
Nicole
Schwaegli

Alina Paetz (Baden Regio, SUI) won 5-3 over Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, CAN) in the Final of the World Women's Curling Championship, held March 14 - 22, 2015 in Sapporo, Japan.

Paetz finished 10-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Paetz defeated Ayumi Ogasawara (Sapporo, JPN) 5-3, then won 6-5 against Aileen Sormunen (Blaine, USA) and 7-3 against Daniela Driendl (Fuessen, GER). Paetz went on to lose 8-7 against Lene Nielsen (Hvidovre, DEN). Paetz responded with a 7-3 win over Sijia Liu (Harbin, CHN). Paetz won 8-4 against Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS), then won 8-7 against Sanna Puustinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) and 6-5 against Kristin Skaslien (Oslo, NOR). Paetz won 7-6 against Jones, then won 8-6 against Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO) and 7-5 against Margaretha Sigfridsson (Skelleftea, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Women's Curling Championship Championship title, Paetz earned 45.000 world rankings points. Paetz move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 39.51 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 9th overall with 206.729 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Paetz ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 147.710 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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