Walstad Reaches 2018 World Mens Curling Championship Quarters

SKIP
Steffen
Walstad

Third
Markus
Hoiberg

Second
Magnus
Nedregotten

Lead
Magnus
Vaagberg

Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR) qualified for the 2018 World Mens Curling Championship playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-5 against Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR). of the 2018 World Mens Curling Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada;

Walstad finished 7-5 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Walstad defeated Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) 10-4, then won 8-2 against Alexander Baumann (Baden-Baden, GER) and 8-4 against Masaki Iwai (Hokkaido, JPN). Walstad won 7-5 against Rich Ruohonen (Seattle, USA). Walstad went on to lose 10-8 against Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS). Walstad responded with a 6-5 win over De Jia Zou (Harbin, CHN). Walstad won 5-3 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Walstad went on to lose 8-2 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Walstad lost 8-6 to Marc Pfister (Adelboden, SUI). Walstad lost 8-6 to Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) where Walstad responded with a 7-6 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Walstad went on to lose 9-5 against Kim in their final qualifying round match.

Walstad earned 28.991 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the World Mens Curling Championship. Walstad move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 26.2 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 16th overall with 402.402 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Walstad ranks 14th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 226.874 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

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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