Walstad8-0 at 2021 Olympic Qualification Event

SKIP
Steffen
Walstad

Third
Torger
Nergaard

Second
Markus
Hoiberg

Lead
Magnus
Vaagberg

Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) finished 8-0 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Walstad defeated Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) 8-5, then won 10-6 against SooHyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR) and 6-4 against Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN). Walstad won 7-4 against Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER), then won 7-4 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN) and 5-4 against Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA). Walstad won 7-4 against Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN), then won 8-5 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Olympic Qualification Event Championship title, Walstad earned 53.438 world rankings points. Walstad move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 43.198 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 16th overall with 206.592 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Walstad ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 141.653 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	50	25	0	0.667	14-0	11-11	5-4	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	607	461	352	7.59	5.80	1.80	4.66	4.10	1.63	1.41	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	280	342	67	26	9-0	18-3	72-11	1.22	0.24	0.39	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	327	119	285	49	6-1	0-13	22-57	0.36	0.87	0.64	0.24

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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