CHAMPION: Muirhead Wins 2013 Titlis Glacier Mountain World Women's Curling Championship

SKIP
Eve
Muirhead

Third
Anna
Sloan

Second
Vicki
Chalmers

Lead
Claire
Hamilton

Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO) won 6-5 over Sweden's Margaretha Sigfridsson in the Final of the Titlis Glacier Mountain World Women's Curling Championship, held March 16 - 24, 2013 in Riga, Latvia.

Muirhead finished 10-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Muirhead defeated Rachel Homan (Ottawa, CAN) 6-4, then went on to lose 11-2 against Sweden's Margaretha Sigfridsson. Muirhead responded with a 9-2 win over Germany's Andrea Schoepp. Muirhead won 8-5 against Bingyu Wang (Harbin, CHN), then won 8-3 against Satsuki Fujisawa (Nagano, JPN) and 11-4 against Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI). Muirhead won 9-5 against Latvia's Iveta Stasa-Sarsune, then won 8-6 against Denmark's Lene Nielsen and 8-4 against Italy's Diana Gaspari. Muirhead won 9-2 against Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS), then won 8-4 against Erika Brown (Madison, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Titlis Glacier Mountain World Women's Curling Championship Championship title, Muirhead earned 45.000 world rankings points. Muirhead move up 5 spots after posting a net gain of 43.195 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 4th overall with 260.591 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Muirhead ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 147.106 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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