Klima5-3 at 2018 Qinghai Curling Elite

Prague, Czech Republic

SKIP
Lukas
Klima

Third
Jiri
Candra

Second
Marek
Cernovsky

Lead
Samuel
Mokris

Games:	10
Record:	6W - 4L
PF/G:	7.97
PA/G:	7.84
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.28
Force Efficiency:	0.46
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) finished 5-3 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Klima defeated Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE) 6-5, then won 7-3 against Glen Muirhead (Perth, SCO) and 7-5 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Klima went on to lose 10-4 against Jan Hess (Zug, SUI). Klima lost 6-3 to Mingjie Yuan (Beijing, CHN). Klima lost 8-6 to Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) where Klima responded with a 6-5 win over Weihaoping Wang (Beijing, CHN). Klima won 10-6 against Andrew Stopera (Chaska, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Qinghai Curling Elite, Klima take home 20.482 world rankings points along with the $13,385CDN prize, moving up 83 spots the World Ranking Standings into 114th place overall with 35.494 total points. Klima ranks 98th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 32.168 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

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Regina, SK
2017: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Romano Keller-Meier, Michael Brunner, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

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