Truksans4-3 at 2020 Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

Riga, Latvia

SKIP
Martins
Truksans

Third
Janis
Klive

Second
Arnis
Veidemanis

Lead
Sandris
Buholcs

Games:	7
Record:	4W - 3L
PF/G:	6.82
PA/G:	6.36
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.22

Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) finished 4-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Truksans defeated Alex Pokras (Metulla, ISR) 8-3, then went on to lose 6-3 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Eruzurum, TUR). Truksans lost 7-5 to Ilya Shalamitski (Minsk, BLR) where Truksans responded with a 10-6 win over France's Eddy Mercier. Truksans won 5-4 against Konstantin Rykov (Vilnius, LTU). Truksans went on to lose 11-6 against Borys Jasiecki (Sopot, POL). Truksans responded with a 8-5 win over Sebastian Wunderer (Kitzbuehel, AUT) in their final qualifying round match.

Truksans earned 5.344 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 11 spots the World Ranking Standings into 150th place overall with 24.338 total points. Truksans ranks 109th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.959 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

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