Apollonio7-2 at 2016 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

SKIP
Federica
Ghedina

Third
Stefania
Menardi

Second
Chiara
Olivieri

Lead
Claudia
Alvera

Games:	14
Record:	11W - 3L
PF/G:	8.43
PA/G:	5.04
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.71
Steal Efficiency:	0.33

Federica Apollonio (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA) finished 7-2 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Apollonio lost 9-7 to Anna Fowler (Kent, ENG), then responded with a 10-4 win over Marianne Neeleman (Zoetermeer, NED). Apollonio won 12-5 against Pauline Jeanneret (Chamonix, FRA), then won 7-4 against Evita Regza (Riga, LAT) and 9-2 against Hannah Augustin (Kitzbuhel, AUT). Apollonio went on to lose 6-5 against Poland's Marta Szeliga-Frynia. Apollonio responded with a 7-5 win over Anna Kubeskova (Praha, CZE). Apollonio won 6-5 against Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR), then won 9-1 against Gabriela Kajanova (Bratislava, SVK) in their final qualifying round match.

Apollonio earned 11.057 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships, moving up 79 spots the World Ranking Standings into 146th place overall with 12.168 total points. Apollonio ranks 124th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.168 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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