CHAMPION: Tirinzoni Wins 2022 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Womens Curling Championship

Fourth
Alina
Paetz

SKIP
Silvana
Tirinzoni

Second
Esther
Neuenschwander

Lead
Melanie
Barbezat

Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) won 7-6 over Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR) in the Final of the BKT Tires & OK Tire World Womens Curling Championship, held March 19 - 27, 2022 in Prince George, British Columbia. To advance to the championship game, Tirinzoni won 7-5 over Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE) in the semifinals of the 2022 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Womens Curling Championship in Prince George, British Columbia;

Tirinzoni finished 12-0 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tirinzoni defeated Gina Aitken (Aberdeen, SCO) 12-1, then won 8-7 against Hasselborg and 11-3 against Kerri Einarson (Gimli, CAN). Tirinzoni won 8-3 against Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR), then won 8-6 against Stefania Constantini (Trentino, ITA) and 8-5 against Kristin Moen Skaslien (Oslo, NOR). Tirinzoni won 10-3 against Alzbeta Baudysova (Prague, CZE), then won 8-7 against Cory Christensen (Duluth, USA) and 7-3 against Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN). Tirinzoni won 8-5 against Kim, then won 11-3 against Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) and 7-6 against Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the BKT Tires & OK Tire World Womens Curling Championship Championship title, Tirinzoni earned 77.547 world rankings points, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 4th place overall with 311.470 total points. Tirinzoni ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 311.470 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	59	18	0	0.766	18-5	17-2	8-3	1-0	1-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	646	540	371	8.36	5.74	2.62	4.98	4.04	1.68	1.42	0.98

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	309	399	69	27	7-1	26-3	92-9	1.29	0.22	0.44	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	337	141	302	36	4-3	7-12	25-58	0.42	0.90	0.65	0.27

The Swiss Olympic rink (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) are off and running as they aim to top the podium in Cortina.

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