Retornaz7-1 at 2021 Olympic Qualification Event

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Third
Amos
Mosaner

Second
Sebastiano
Arman

Lead
Simone
Gonin

Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA) finished 7-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Retornaz defeated SooHyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR) 7-3, then won 9-5 against Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) and 6-5 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN). Retornaz won 7-6 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Retornaz went on to lose 5-4 against Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR). Retornaz responded with a 7-2 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Retornaz won 9-4 against Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN), then won 11-4 against Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Olympic Qualification Event, Retornaz take home 39.188 world rankings points. Retornaz move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 25.499 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 17th overall with 193.401 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Retornaz ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 128.228 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	62	30	0	0.674	13-7	15-7	6-3	4-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	734	594	436	8.09	5.94	2.15	4.78	3.94	1.69	1.51	1.28

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	357	464	72	52	15-1	30-2	105-11	1.30	0.20	0.49	0.15

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	377	130	364	42	3-4	1-23	19-71	0.34	0.97	0.58	0.27

Gyeonggi's Team Gim Eun-ji (Photo: Olympics) will represent Korea for a third straight season at the international level.

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