Pollanen Finishes Fourth at 2019 Latvia International Challenger

Hyvinkaa, Finland

Fourth
Jere
Sullanmaa

Third
Jason
Moore

Second
Iikko
Santti

SKIP
Jermu
Poellaenen

Games:	7
Record:	4W - 3L
PF/G:	9.20
PA/G:	7.40
Hammer Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Defense:	0.40
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.28

Jermu Pollanen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) lost 8-4 to Tobias Thune (Hvidovre, DEN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Latvia International Challenger in Tukums, Latvia. of the 2019 Latvia International Challenger in Tukums, Latvia; Jermu Pollanen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) lost 8-4 to Tobias Thune (Hvidovre, DEN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Latvia International Challenger in Tukums, Latvia. Pollanen lost 9-3 to Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2019 Latvia International Challenger in Tukums, Latvia; and won 8-0 over Kriss Vonda (Riga, LAT) in the quarterfinals. of the 2019 Latvia International Challenger in Tukums, Latvia;

Pollanen finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pollanen defeated Ilya Shalamitski (Minsk, BLR) 8-5, then won 11-2 against Jotham Sugden (Kent, ENG) and 8-7 against Vadim Raev (Moscow, RUS). Pollanen went on to lose 6-4 against Magnusson in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Latvia International Challenger, Pollanen take home 7.174 world rankings points along with 434CDN, moving up 22 spots the World Ranking Standings into 126th place overall with 29.270 total points. Pollanen ranks 76th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.186 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

2022: Martins Truksans
Martins Truksans, Janis Klive, Arnis Veidemanis, Sandris Buholcs
Riga, LAT
2021: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Callum Kinnear, Mark Taylor, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2019: Daniel Magnusson
Daniel Magnusson, Robin Ahlberg, Anton Regosa, Sebastian Jones
Karlstad, SWE
2018: Wille Makela
Wille Makela, Kalle Kiiskinen, Teemu Salo, Paavo Kuosmanen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2017: Rasmus Stjerne
Rasmus Stjerne, Johnny Frederiksen, Mikkel Poulsen, Oliver Dupont
Hvidovre, DEN

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