Gulbis6-1 at 2016 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

Riga, Latvia

SKIP
Ritvars
Gulbis

Third
Normunds
Sarsuns

Second
Aivars
Avotins

Lead
Arturs
Gerhards

Games:	10
Record:	8W - 2L
PF/G:	9.64
PA/G:	4.88
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.06
Force Efficiency:	0.72
Steal Efficiency:	0.30

Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT) finished 6-1 in the 0 team Le Gruyere European Curling Championships qualifying round, held November 19 - 28, 2015 in , . In their opening game, Gulbis lost 6-5 to Sebastian Wunderer (Kitzbuhel, AUT), then responded with a 10-2 win over Alen Cadez (Zagreb, CRO). Gulbis won 8-2 against Juraj Gallo (Martin, SVK), then won 7-6 against Alan Macdougall (Kent, ENG) and 10-1 against Adam Freilich (Jerusalem, ISR). Gulbis won 8-6 against Antonio De Mollinedo (San Sebasian, ESP), then won 7-3 against Martin Lill (Tallinn, EST) in their final qualifying round match.

Gulbis earned 7.746 world rankings points for their Top 7 finish in the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships, moving up 53 spots the World Ranking Standings into 159th place overall with 16.901 total points. Gulbis ranks 130th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.901 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	8	2	0	0.800	6-0	2-2	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	84	81	41	9.64	4.88	4.76	5.36	3.69	1.80	1.32	0.95

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	34	52	2	2	1-0	5-0	9-0	1.53	0.06	0.47	0.06

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	50	29	39	6	2-0	0-2	8-6	0.58	0.78	0.72	0.30

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