Walstad5-4 at 2019 Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

Oppdal, Norway

SKIP
Steffen
Walstad

Third
Markus
Hoiberg

Second
Magnus
Nedregotten

Lead
Magnus
Vaagberg

Games:	9
Record:	5W - 4L
PF/G:	6.98
PA/G:	5.70
Hammer Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.64
Steal Efficiency:	0.18

Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR) finished 5-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Walstad lost 8-7 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO), then responded with a 8-7 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Walstad went on to lose 7-5 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Walstad responded with a 9-3 win over Bartosz Dzikowski (Katowice, POL). Walstad won 7-4 against Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER). Walstad went on to lose 5-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Walstad responded with a 6-2 win over Wille Makela (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Walstad won 7-5 against Mikhail Vaskov (Dmitrov, RUS). Walstad went on to lose 8-7 against Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Walstad earned 15.978 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Walstad move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of -6.709 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 11th overall with 305.798 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Walstad ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 169.674 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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