Nikolov3-4 at Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

SKIP
Eduard
Nikolov

Third
Yaroslav
Shchur

Second
Artem
Suhak

Lead
Vladyslav
Koval

Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR) finished 3-4 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nikolov defeated Lukas Matt (Liechtenstein, LIE) 17-3, then won 15-6 against James Pougher (Hawarden, WAL) and 8-6 against Mathias Genner (Kitzbuehel, AUT). Nikolov went on to lose 11-3 against Juraj Gallo (Bratislava, SVK). Nikolov lost 10-2 to Rob Retchless (Preston, ENG). Nikolov lost 9-6 to Gontzal Garcia (San Sebastian, ESP). Nikolov lost 8-4 to Ireland's John Wilson in their final qualifying round match.

Nikolov earned 1.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 18 of the event schedule, Nikolov did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Nikolov ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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