Truksans1-4 at 2021 Tallinn Mens International Challenger

SKIP
Martins
Truksans

Third
Janis
Klive

Second
Arnis
Veidemanis

Lead
Sandris
Buholcs

Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) finished 1-4 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Truksans lost 8-4 to James Craik (Stirling, SCO), droppimg another game, 10-5 to Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI). Truksans lost 6-2 to Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER) where Truksans responded with a 9-4 win over Eduard Veltsman (Tallinn, EST). Truksans went on to lose 9-5 against Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Truksans earned 0.980 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 4 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 127th place overall with 16.409 total points. Truksans ranks 129th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.980 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

2023: Yves Stocker
Yves Stocker, Kim Schwaller, Felix Eberhard, Tom Winkelhausen
Zug, SUI
2022: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2021: Marco Hoesli
Marco Hoesli, Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Jermu Poellaenen
Jere Sullanmaa, Jason Moore, Iikko Santti, Jermu Poellaenen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2018: Ilya Shalamitski
Ilya Shalamitski, Pavel Petrov, Dzimitry Rudnitski, Yevgeny Tamkovich
Minsk, BLR

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