CHAMPION: Feltscher Wins 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

SKIP
Binia
Feltscher

Third
Irene
Schori

Second
Franziska
Kaufmann

Lead
Christine
Urech

Binia Feltscher (Flims, SUI) won 9-5 over Rachel Homan (Ottawa, CAN) in the Final of the Ford World Women's Curling Championship, held March 15 - 23, 2014 in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Feltscher finished 9-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Feltscher defeated Imogen Oona Lehmann (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER) 10-4, then won 6-3 against Sijia Liu (Harbin, CHN) and 8-2 against Homan. Feltscher won 8-2 against Evita Regza (Riga, LAT), then won 7-3 against Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN). Feltscher went on to lose 9-2 against Ji-Sun Kim (Gyeong gi do, KOR). Feltscher responded with a 8-6 win over Allison Pottinger (St. Paul, USA). Feltscher won 10-5 against Kerry Barr (Edinburgh, SCO), then won 5-3 against Margaretha Sigfridsson (Harnosand, SWE). Feltscher went on to lose 8-5 against Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS). Feltscher responded with a 9-5 win over Anna Kubeskova (Praha, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ford World Women's Curling Championship Championship title, Feltscher earned 45.000 world rankings points, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 15th place overall with 172.180 total points. Feltscher ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 105.095 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	46	21	0	0.687	19-9	14-7	5-4	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	528	390	276	7.39	5.23	2.16	4.62	3.56	1.60	1.47	1.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	255	264	51	57	4-0	17-0	58-9	1.04	0.20	0.40	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	273	126	225	39	0-2	7-14	24-44	0.46	0.82	0.59	0.32

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