Hostmaelingen2-3 at 2021 Tallinn Mens International Challenger

SKIP
Lukas
Hostmaelingen

Third
Grunde Morten
Buraas

Second
Magnus
Lilleboe

Lead
Tinius Haslev
Nordbye

Lukas Hostmaelingen (Lillehammer, NOR) finished 2-3 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hostmaelingen defeated Konstantin Rykov (Vilnius, LTU) 9-1, then went on to lose 7-3 against Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER). Hostmaelingen lost 8-5 to Bjorn Jungen (Bern, SUI). Hostmaelingen lost 6-3 to Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) where Hostmaelingen responded with a 7-2 win over Sergio Vez (Vitoria-Gasteiz, ESP) in their final qualifying round match.

Hostmaelingen earned 1.960 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 175th place overall with 8.319 total points. Hostmaelingen ranks 105th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.960 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

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