Hostmaelingen Finishes Fourth at 2022 World Junior Curling Championships

Lillehammer, Norway

Fourth
Grunde
Buraas

SKIP
Lukas
Hostmaelingen

Second
Magnus
Lilleboe

Lead
Tinius Haslev
Nordbye

Games:	11
Record:	6W - 5L
PF/G:	8.21
PA/G:	8.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Efficiency:	0.13

Lukas Hostmaelingen (Lillehammer, NOR) lost 13-4 to Owen Purcell (Upper Tantallon, CAN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 World Junior Curling Championships in Jonkoping, Sweden. of the 2022 World Junior Curling Championships in Jonkoping, Sweden; Lukas Hostmaelingen (Lillehammer, NOR) lost 13-4 to Owen Purcell (Upper Tantallon, CAN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 World Junior Curling Championships in Jonkoping, Sweden. Hostmaelingen lost 7-5 to James Craik (Stirling, SCO) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Hostmaelingen finished 6-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hostmaelingen defeated William Becker (Naseby, NZL) 14-5, then won 9-7 against Axel Landelius (Mjolby, SWE) and 9-6 against Kim Schwaller (Bern, SUI). Hostmaelingen won 8-5 against Giacomo Colli (Trentino, ITA), then won 12-1 against JaeBeom Lee (Gyeongsan, KOR). Hostmaelingen went on to lose 8-5 against Daniel Casper (Chaska, USA). Hostmaelingen lost 9-2 to Craik. Hostmaelingen lost 9-3 to Purcell where Hostmaelingen responded with a 7-6 win over Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the World Junior Curling Championships, Hostmaelingen take home 12.227 world rankings points, moving up 14 spots the World Ranking Standings into 55th place overall with 67.501 total points. Hostmaelingen ranks 55th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 67.501 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	26	14	0	0.650	9-1	2-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	284	276	196	9.72	6.90	2.82	4.89	4.26	1.99	1.62	0.85

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	138	183	40	14	12-0	7-0	36-10	1.33	0.29	0.44	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	146	93	156	10	6-3	5-12	14-31	0.64	1.07	0.49	0.31

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