Kiiskinen Runner-Up at 2021 Tallinn Mens International Challenger

SKIP
Kalle
Kiiskinen

Third
Teemu
Salo

Second
Leo
Ouni

Lead
Paavo
Kuosmanen

Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) lost 9-1 to Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI) in the Final of the Tallinn Mens International Challenger, held September 23 - 26, 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. To advance to the championship game, Kiiskinen won 8-1 over Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER) in the semifinals of the 2021 Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia; and won 7-4 over Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER) in the quarterfinals. of the 2021 Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia;

Kiiskinen finished 5-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kiiskinen defeated Sergio Vez (Vitoria-Gasteiz, ESP) 8-5, then won 7-6 against Konstantin Rykov (Vilnius, LTU) and 4-2 against Totzek. Kiiskinen won 6-3 against Lukas Hostmaelingen (Lillehammer, NOR), then won 5-4 against Bjorn Jungen (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Tallinn Mens International Challenger, Kiiskinen take home 14.375 world rankings points along with the $1,334CDN prize, moving up 71 spots the World Ranking Standings into 102nd place overall with 21.564 total points. Kiiskinen ranks 36th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.375 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

2023: Yves Stocker
Yves Stocker, Kim Schwaller, Felix Eberhard, Tom Winkelhausen
Zug, SUI
2022: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2021: Marco Hoesli
Marco Hoesli, Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Jermu Pollanen
Jere Sullanmaa, Jason Moore, Iikko Santti, Jermu Poellaenen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2018: Ilya Shalamitski
Ilya Shalamitski, Pavel Petrov, Dzimitry Rudnitski, Yevgeny Tamkovich
Minsk, BLR

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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