Nielsen5-6 at 2016 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

SKIP
Lene
Nielsen

Third
Stefanie
Risdal Nielsen

Second
Charlotte
Clemmensen

Lead
Isabella
Clemmensen

Lene Nielsen (Hvidovre, DEN) finished 5-6 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nielsen lost 8-7 to Chelsea Carey (Calgary, CAN), then responded with a 8-7 win over Erika Brown (Madison, USA). Nielsen went on to lose 7-6 against Binia Feltscher (Flims, SUI). Nielsen responded with a 11-4 win over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN). Nielsen went on to lose 9-3 against Ji-Sun Kim (gyeonggido, KOR). Nielsen lost 9-3 to Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO) where Nielsen responded with a 6-4 win over Oona Kauste (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Nielsen went on to lose 6-2 against Margaretha Sigfridsson (Sundsvall, SWE). Nielsen responded with a 7-5 win over Federica Apollonio (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA). Nielsen went on to lose 10-7 against Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS). Nielsen responded with a 8-4 win over Daniela Driendl (Fï¿½ssen , GER) in their final qualifying round match.

Nielsen earned 12.677 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 51st place overall with 106.032 total points. Nielsen ranks 62nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 64.032 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

Manitoba's Jordon McDonald (Photo: Curling Canada) is in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, competing at the Canadian Olympic Pre-Trials.

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