CHAMPION: Gilli Wins 2025 World Junior Curling Championships

[[4:3.7500]] CHAMPION: Gilli Wins 2025 World Junior Curling Championships

Pinerolo, Italy

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SKIP
Stefano
Gilli

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Third
Andrea
Gilli

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Second
Stefano
Spiller

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Lead
Francesco
Vigliani

Games:	11
Record:	10W - 1L
PF/G:	8.92
PA/G:	4.31
Hammer Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.71
Steal Efficiency:	0.38

Stefano Gilli (Pinerolo, ITA) won 9-5 over Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen in the Final of the World Junior Curling Championships, held April 12 - 21, 2025 in Cortina d, Italy. To advance to the championship game, Gilli won 9-2 over Korea's Daehyeon Kim in the semifinals of the 2025 World Junior Curling Championships in Cortina d, Italy;

Gilli finished 8-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gilli defeated Lukas Jaeger (Fuessen, GER) 5-3, then won 10-5 against Jacob Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN) and 6-3 against Felix Luethold (Wildhaus, SUI). Gilli won 10-3 against Toa Nakahara (Kitami, JPN), then won 9-4 against Orrin Carson (Stirling, SCO) and 11-7 against Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen. Gilli won 9-3 against Kenan Wipf (Calgary, CAN), then won 8-3 against Wesley Wendling (Chaska, USA). Gilli went on to lose 6-5 against Korea's Daehyeon Kim in their final qualifying round match.

Gilli earned 3.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 11 spots the World Ranking Standings into 117th place overall with 17.813 total points. Gilli ranks 117th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.813 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	19	18	0	0.514	1-7	1-2	1-4	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	274	202	185	7.37	6.75	0.62	4.60	4.38	1.60	1.54	1.02

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	139	133	48	17	1-1	9-3	26-3	0.96	0.35	0.30	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	135	69	137	11	3-2	6-10	8-26	0.51	1.01	0.55	0.30

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