Nikolov Reaches World Junior-B Curling Championships Quarters

SKIP
Eduard
Nikolov

Third
Yaroslav
Shchur

Second
Artem
Suhak

Lead
Vladyslav
Koval

Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR) qualified for the World Junior-B Curling Championships playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-5 against William Becker (Naseby, NZL). of the World Junior-B Curling Championships in Lohja, Finland;

Nikolov finished 5-1 in the 22-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nikolov defeated Johnson Tao (Edmonton, CAN) 6-3, then won 10-2 against Selahattin Eser (Erzurum, TUR) and 9-5 against Matthaus Hofer (Kitzbuehel, AUT). Nikolov won 6-2 against Aidos Alliyar (Almaty, KAZ). Nikolov went on to lose 7-3 against Ryo Aoki (Sapporo, JPN). Nikolov responded with a 8-3 win over Antoni Frynia (Lodz, POL) in their final qualifying round match.

Nikolov earned 3.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the World Junior-B Curling Championships, moving up 46 spots the World Ranking Standings into 199th place overall with 8.625 total points. Nikolov ranks 224th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	8	15	0	0.348	0-4	0-3	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	167	127	147	7.60	8.80	-1.20	4.61	4.85	1.65	1.81	0.54

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	83	77	55	2	1-2	3-5	18-8	0.93	0.66	0.27	0.37

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	84	50	92	7	3-4	4-4	4-21	0.60	1.10	0.42	0.32

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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