Colli Runner-Up at 2024 Italian National Curling Championship

Fourth
Alberto
Zisa

SKIP
Giacomo
Colli

Second
Francesco
De Zanna

Lead
Marcello
Pachner

Giacomo Colli (Cortina dâAmpezzo, ITA) lost 5-4 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in the Final of the Italian National Curling Championship, held February 7 - 11, 2024 in Trentino, Italy. To advance to the championship game, Colli won 8-1 over Stefano Spiller (Bormio, ITA) in the semifinals of the 2024 Italian National Curling Championship in Trentino, Italy;

Colli finished 3-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Colli lost 9-4 to Retornaz, then responded with a 6-5 win over Fabio Ribotta (Pinerolo, ITA). Colli won 10-2 against Spiller, then won 6-4 against Marco Onnis (Pinerolo, ITA). Colli went on to lose 8-0 against Stefano Gilli (Pinerolo, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Italian National Curling Championship, Colli take home 13.750 world rankings points, moving up 26 spots the World Ranking Standings into 74th place overall with 37.375 total points. Colli ranks 74th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 37.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	17	24	0	0.415	3-3	3-6	2-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	282	210	231	7.45	8.19	-0.74	4.50	4.54	1.65	1.80	0.96

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	135	144	56	13	4-2	10-1	23-12	1.07	0.41	0.30	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	147	66	175	14	0-5	4-13	18-40	0.45	1.19	0.38	0.27

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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