CHAMPION: Ribotta Wins WCT Lodz Men's International

Fourth
Alberto
Pimpini

SKIP
Fabio
Ribotta

Second
Simone
Gonin

Lead
Fabrizio
Gallo

Fabio Ribotta (Pinerolo, ITA) won 8-2 over Sweden's Fredrik Nyman in the Final of the WCT Lodz Men's International, held December 15 - 17 at the Curling Lodz in Lodz, Poland. To advance to the championship game, Ribotta won 5-1 over Marco Onnis (Pinerolo, ITA) in the semifinals of the WCT Lodz Men's International in Lodz, Poland; and won 7-3 over Sergio Vez (San Sebastian, ESP) in the quarterfinals.

Ribotta finished 2-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ribotta defeated Jeremi Telak (Lodz, POL) 8-2, then won 7-6 against Kasper Wiksten (Hvidovre, DEN). Ribotta went on to lose 5-4 against David Sik (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the WCT Lodz Men's International Championship title, Ribotta earned 3.750 world rankings points along with the $1,752CDN first prize cheque, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 101st place overall with 29.612 total points. Ribotta ranks 109th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 15.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	26	19	0	0.578	4-3	4-5	3-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	315	255	204	8.10	6.48	1.62	4.73	4.06	1.71	1.59	1.21

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	138	153	45	13	3-1	8-0	37-6	1.11	0.33	0.38	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	177	102	159	25	2-5	8-8	18-35	0.58	0.90	0.48	0.34

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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