CHAMPION: Schwaller Wins 2023 Swiss Curling Championships

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

SKIP
Yannick
Schwaller

Second
Sven
Michel

Lead
Pablo
Lachat

Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI) won 7-4 over Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) in the Final of the Swiss Curling Championships, held February 11 - 18, 2023 in Geneve-Thonex, Switzerland.

Schwaller finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Schwaller defeated Brunner 7-2, then won 9-5 against Christian Bangerter (Bern, SUI) and 7-1 against Andrin Schnider (Schaffhausen, SUI). Schwaller won 7-6 against Manuel Jermann (Basel, SUI). Schwaller went on to lose 7-4 against Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI). Schwaller responded with a 8-2 win over Jan Iseli (Solothun-Biel, SUI). Schwaller won 6-4 against Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Swiss Curling Championships Championship title, Schwaller earned 41.250 world rankings points, remaining in 7th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 11.5 after improving upon their best so far this season. Schwaller ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 257.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	4	3	0	0.571	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	49	36	38	7.35	7.76	-0.41	4.29	4.90	1.71	1.58	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	28	27	19	3	1-1	2-0	6-4	0.96	0.68	0.36	0.43

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	21	9	19	1	0-0	0-2	1-3	0.43	0.90	0.58	0.38

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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