Harstad2-3 at Tallinn Mens International Challenger

SKIP
Andreas
Harstad

Third
Mathias
Braenden

Second
Michael
Mellemseter

Lead
Willhelm
Naess

Andreas Harstad (Oppdal, NOR) finished 2-3 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Harstad defeated Simon Spits (Zoetermeer, NED) 6-5, then went on to lose 7-3 against Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI). Harstad lost 8-3 to Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Harstad lost 7-4 to Jan Iseli (Solothun, SUI) where Harstad responded with a 9-6 win over Eduard Veltsman (Tallinn, EST) in their final qualifying round match.

Harstad earned 1.875 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Harstad gained -19.32 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 46thplace overall with 71.836 total points. Harstad ranks 81st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	19	18	0	0.514	2-2	1-3	1-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	257	192	187	7.47	7.28	0.19	4.63	4.32	1.61	1.68	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	123	136	44	15	7-0	3-2	28-9	1.11	0.36	0.35	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	134	56	143	12	1-2	4-13	3-30	0.42	1.07	0.44	0.31

2023: Yves Stocker
Yves Stocker, Kim Schwaller, Felix Eberhard, Tom Winkelhausen
Zug, SUI
2022: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2021: Marco Hoesli
Marco Hoesli, Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Jermu Pollanen
Jere Sullanmaa, Jason Moore, Iikko Santti, Jermu Poellaenen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2018: Ilya Shalamitski
Ilya Shalamitski, Pavel Petrov, Dzimitry Rudnitski, Yevgeny Tamkovich
Minsk, BLR

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