CHAMPION: Schwaller Wins 2024 Swiss National Championship

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

SKIP
Yannick
Schwaller

Second
Sven
Michel

Lead
Pablo
Lachat

Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI) won 7-2 over Switzerland's Andrin Schnider in the Final Schwaller advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Swiss National Championship, held February 5 - 10, 2024 in Geneve-Thonex, Switzerland.

Schwaller finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Schwaller defeated Jan Tanner (Zug, SUI) 9-2, then won 5-2 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) and 5-3 against Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI). Schwaller won 8-3 against Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI), then won 5-2 against Manuel Jermann (Arlesheim, SUI) and 7-3 against Jan Iseli (Solothun, SUI). Schwaller won 7-4 against Switzerland's Andrin Schnider in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Swiss National Championship Championship title, Schwaller earned 45.000 world rankings points, remaining in 5th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 15.25 after improving upon their best so far this season. Schwaller ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 305.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	52	21	0	0.712	12-2	4-4	1-0	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	546	443	327	8.11	5.99	2.12	4.69	3.90	1.73	1.54	1.41

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	272	360	43	42	10-1	24-2	83-4	1.32	0.16	0.51	0.12

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	274	83	284	35	2-4	3-21	13-48	0.30	1.04	0.60	0.21

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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