Rantamaki1-8 at 2014 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

Helsinki, Finland

Fourth
Toni
Anttila

SKIP
Tomi
Rantamaki

Second
Pekka
Peura

Lead
Jermu
Poellaenen

Games:	9
Record:	1W - 8L
PF/G:	6.00
PA/G:	8.71
Hammer Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Defense:	0.32
Force Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Efficiency:	0.14

Tomi Rantamaki (Helsinki, FIN) finished 1-8 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rantamaki lost 7-4 to Andrey Drozdov (Moscow, RUS), droppimg another game, 8-7 to Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT). Rantamaki lost 9-4 to David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO). Rantamaki lost 6-5 to Joffrey Vincent (Besancon, FRA) where Rantamaki responded with a 10-9 win over Jiri Snitil (Praha, CZE). Rantamaki went on to lose 10-4 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Rantamaki lost 9-7 to Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI). Rantamaki lost 8-5 to Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN). Rantamaki lost 8-5 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Rantamaki earned 2.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 79th place overall with 19.502 total points. Rantamaki ranks 75th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.138 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	13	18	0	0.419	9-8	3-8	4-7	1-1	1-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	249	160	172	6.43	6.91	-0.48	4.22	4.30	1.52	1.61	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	127	129	39	18	1-1	6-1	34-5	1.02	0.31	0.38	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	122	31	133	19	0-4	0-12	6-18	0.25	1.09	0.56	0.20

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