Denmark's Lene Nielsen8-1 at 2012 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

SKIP
Lene
Nielsen

Third
Helle
Simonsen

Second
Jeanne
Ellegaard

Lead
Maria
Poulsen

Denmark's Lene Nielsen finished 8-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Denmark's Lene Nielsen lost 9-6 to Margaretha Sigfridsson (Skelleftea, SWE), then responded with a 12-2 win over Eve Muirhead (Perth, SCO). Denmark's Lene Nielsen won 11-2 against Norway's Linn Githmark, then won 6-5 against Ineta Maca (Riga, LAT) and 13-7 against Italy's Diana Gaspari. Denmark's Lene Nielsen won 8-7 against Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS), then won 11-1 against Czech Republic's Linda Klimova and 6-5 against Switzerland's Binia Feltscher. Denmark's Lene Nielsen won 6-4 against Andrea Schopp (Fuessen, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

Denmark's Lene Nielsen earned 20.000 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 25th place overall with 65.765 total points. Denmark's Lene Nielsen ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.845 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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