Truksans1-4 at 2023 Tallinn Mens International Challenger

SKIP
Martins
Truksans

Third
Janis
Klive

Second
Aivars
Avotins

Lead
Sandris
Buholcs

Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) finished 1-4 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Truksans defeated Manuel Jermann (Basel, SUI) 7-5, then went on to lose 6-5 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI). Truksans lost 7-5 to Joel Westerberg (Sundbyberg, SWE). Truksans lost 8-6 to Lukas Hostmaelingen (Oslo, NOR). Truksans lost 9-3 to David Sik (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Truksans earned 0.938 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 117th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -6.281 after improving upon their best so far this season. Truksans ranks 171st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.938 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	12	13	0	0.480	1-2	0-2	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	198	157	143	7.93	7.22	0.71	4.90	4.44	1.62	1.63	0.66

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	100	106	42	5	2-0	8-2	21-6	1.06	0.42	0.33	0.32

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	98	51	101	8	3-3	0-8	7-18	0.52	1.03	0.48	0.35

2024: Fredrik Nyman
Fredrik Nyman, Patric Mabergs, Simon Olofsson, Johannes Patz
Solleftea, SWE
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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