Eriksson Runner-Up at 2014 World Curling Championship

SKIP
Oskar
Eriksson

Third
Kristian
Lindstroem

Second
Markus
Eriksson

Lead
Christoffer
Sundgren

Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE) lost 8-3 to Thomas Ulsrud (Snaroen, NOR) in the Final of the World Curling Championship, held March 29 - April 6, 2014 in Beijing, China.

Eriksson finished 7-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Eriksson defeated Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO) 8-4, then won 8-6 against Pete Fenson (Bemidji, USA). Eriksson went on to lose 7-5 against Johnny Jahr (Hamburg, GER). Eriksson lost 6-3 to Ulsrud where Eriksson responded with a 7-6 win over Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS). Eriksson went on to lose 5-3 against Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE). Eriksson responded with a 9-4 win over Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN). Eriksson went on to lose 8-6 against Peter de Cruz (Geneve, SUI). Eriksson responded with a 6-2 win over Kevin Koe (Edmonton, CAN). Eriksson won 11-4 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN), then won 6-5 against Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the World Curling Championship, Eriksson take home 35.000 world rankings points. Eriksson move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 31.1 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 15th overall with 172.801 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Eriksson ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 111.415 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	64	32	0	0.667	44-12	16-19	14-9	5-0	0-4

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	743	576	451	7.75	6.07	1.68	4.60	4.25	1.68	1.43	1.14

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	365	454	104	29	15-0	33-6	83-13	1.24	0.28	0.39	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	378	122	347	56	1-3	8-11	18-78	0.32	0.92	0.61	0.22

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