CHAMPION: Westerberg Wins 2025 Swedish Curling Championships

Sundbyberg, Sweden

Fourth
Carl-Oscar
Pihl

SKIP
Joel
Westerberg

Second
Mans
Winge

Lead
Kim
Svedelid

Games:	8
Record:	6W - 2L
PF/G:	8.14
PA/G:	5.93
Hammer Efficiency:	0.29
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Efficiency:	0.34

Joel Westerberg (Sundbyberg, SWE) won 6-2 over Simon Granbom (Gavle, SWE) in the Final of the Swedish Curling Championships, held January 30 - February 2, 2025 in . To advance to the championship game, Westerberg won 11-4 over Fredrik Nyman (Solleftea, SWE) in the semifinals of the 2025 Swedish Curling Championships in ; and won 6-5 over Johan Nygren (Umea, SWE) in the quarterfinals. of the 2025 Swedish Curling Championships in ;

Westerberg finished 3-2 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Westerberg defeated Johan Hedin (Sundbyberg, SWE) 7-5, then went on to lose 8-3 against Axel Landelius (Mjolby, SWE). Westerberg lost 6-5 to Emil Markusson (Ostersund, SWE) where Westerberg responded with a 5-2 win over Bengt Nilsson (Goteborg, SWE). Westerberg won 5-3 against Jordan Wahlin (Linkoeping, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Swedish Curling Championships Championship title, Westerberg earned 11.250 world rankings points. Westerberg move up 26 spots after posting a net gain of 7.031 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 76th overall with 31.375 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Westerberg ranks 76th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 31.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	27	14	0	0.659	6-1	3-4	2-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	275	241	188	8.76	6.84	1.93	4.98	4.25	1.76	1.61	0.76

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	134	162	52	10	8-0	7-5	29-6	1.21	0.39	0.35	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	141	79	136	11	3-3	5-6	11-32	0.56	0.96	0.49	0.35

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