Veltsman4-3 at 2022 Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

Fourth
Mihhail
Vlassov

SKIP
Eduard
Veltsman

Second
Janis
Kiziridi

Lead
Igor
Dzendzeljuk

Eduard Veltsman (Tallinn, EST) finished 4-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Veltsman lost 7-2 to Sergio Vez (Vitoria-Gasteiz, ESP), then responded with a 9-2 win over Gabor Ezsol (Budapest, HUN). Veltsman won 9-6 against Belgium's Tom Van Waterschoot. Veltsman went on to lose 11-3 against Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS). Veltsman responded with a 9-6 win over Dmitryi Barkan (Minsk, BLR). Veltsman won 8-6 against Konstantin Rykov (Vilnius, LTU). Veltsman went on to lose 8-7 against Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) in their final qualifying round match.

Veltsman earned 5.344 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 31 spots the World Ranking Standings into 172nd place overall with 15.524 total points. Veltsman ranks 143rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.025 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

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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