CHAMPION: Tirinzoni Wins 2023 Swiss Curling Championships

Fourth
Alina
Paetz

SKIP
Silvana
Tirinzoni

Second
Carole
Howald

Lead
Briar
Schwaller

Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) won 6-4 over Corrie Huerlimann (Zug, SUI) in the Final Tirinzoni advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Swiss Curling Championships, held February 11 - 18, 2023 in Geneve-Thonex, Switzerland.

Tirinzoni finished 6-2 in the 5-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tirinzoni defeated Huerlimann 8-7, then won 8-4 against Nora Wuest (Wallisellen, SUI) and 9-3 against Raphaela Keiser (St. Moritz, SUI). Tirinzoni won 7-6 against Michele Jaeggi (Bern, SUI), then won 8-3 against Wuest and 10-3 against Huerlimann. Tirinzoni went on to lose 7-6 against Jaeggi. Tirinzoni lost 6-5 to Keiser in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Swiss Curling Championships Championship title, Tirinzoni earned 22.500 world rankings points. For week 29 of the event schedule, Tirinzoni did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 3rd place on the World Ranking Standings with 335.817 total points. Tirinzoni ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 307.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	83	25	0	0.769	29-2	14-8	6-2	1-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	829	715	449	8.62	5.42	3.21	4.91	3.85	1.76	1.41	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	410	511	85	56	15-0	35-3	103-9	1.25	0.21	0.43	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	419	204	364	47	8-2	11-19	33-70	0.49	0.87	0.63	0.29

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