Nielsen5-6 at 2012 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

Taarnby, Denmark

SKIP
Lene
Nielsen

Third
Helle
Simonsen

Second
Jeanne
Ellegaard

Lead
Maria
Poulsen

Games:	11
Record:	5W - 6L
PF/G:	6.29
PA/G:	6.86
Hammer Efficiency:	0.34
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Efficiency:	0.20

Lene Nielsen (Taarnby, DEN) finished 5-6 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nielsen lost 6-3 to Melanie Robillard (Fuessen, GER), then responded with a 7-5 win over Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS). Nielsen went on to lose 8-6 against Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO). Nielsen responded with a 8-7 win over Linda Klimova (Prague, CZE). Nielsen won 9-7 against Heather Nedohin (Edmonton, CAN). Nielsen went on to lose 7-6 against Bingyu Wang (Harbin, CHN). Nielsen lost 9-8 to Korea's Ji-Sun Kim where Nielsen responded with a 7-4 win over Mirjam Ott (Davos, SUI). Nielsen won 5-4 against Italy's Diana Gaspari. Nielsen went on to lose 7-2 against Sweden's Margaretha Sigfridsson. Nielsen lost 8-5 to Allison Pottinger (St. Paul, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

Nielsen earned 10.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 24th place overall with 80.385 total points. Nielsen ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 36.465 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

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