CHAMPION: Eriksson Wins 2023 Swedish Curling Championships

SKIP
Oskar
Eriksson

Third
Rasmus
Wrana

Second
Daniel
Magnusson

Lead
Christoffer
Sundgren

Oskar Eriksson (Karlstad, SWE) won 6-2 over Axel Landelius (MjÃ¶lby, SWE) in the Final of the Swedish Curling Championships, held February 1 - 5, 2023 in Karlstad, Sweden. To advance to the championship game, Eriksson won 5-2 over Fredrik Nyman (Solleftea, SWE) in the semifinals of the 2023 Swedish Curling Championships in Karlstad, Sweden; and won 12-3 over Joel Westerberg (Sundbyberg, SWE) in the quarterfinals.

Eriksson finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Eriksson defeated Johan Hakansson (Karlstad, SWE) 7-6, then won 8-2 against Thomas Nordgren (Falu, SWE) and 9-4 against Axel Rosander (Norrkoping, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Swedish Curling Championships Championship title, Eriksson earned 26.250 world rankings points, remaining in 1st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -28.147 after improving upon their best so far this season. Eriksson ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 325.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	84	23	0	0.785	22-6	12-7	6-8	3-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	794	720	437	9.07	5.50	3.56	5.06	3.79	1.79	1.45	1.15

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	390	538	67	49	13-0	48-3	112-9	1.38	0.17	0.51	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	404	182	370	42	5-2	8-18	37-79	0.45	0.92	0.60	0.28

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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