CHAMPION: Ireland's John Wilson Wins 2022 European Curling Championships C-Division

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John
Wilson

Third
Kyle
Paradis

Second
James
Russell

Lead
Craig
Whyte

Ireland's John Wilson won 8-2 over Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR) in the Final of the European Curling Championships C-Division, held April 30 - May 5, 2022 in Kaunas, Lithuania. To advance to the championship game, Ireland's John Wilson won 8-2 over Steve Seixeiro (Lisbon, POR) in the semifinals

Ireland's John Wilson finished 7-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ireland's John Wilson defeated Konstantin Rykov (Vilnius, LTU) 5-4, then won 6-4 against Nikolov and 9-3 against Liechtenstein's Matt Lukas. Ireland's John Wilson won 6-3 against Andorra's Josep Garcia, then won 7-6 against Allen Coliban (Bucharest, ROU) and 12-3 against Seixeiro. Ireland's John Wilson won 11-2 against Reto Seiler (Sofia, BUL). Ireland's John Wilson went on to lose 7-5 against Alen Cadez (Zagreb, CRO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the European Curling Championships C-Division Championship title, Ireland's John Wilson earned 7.031 world rankings points, moving up 92 spots the World Ranking Standings into 186th place overall with 10.541 total points. Ireland's John Wilson ranks 186th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.541 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	17	4	0	0.810	7-2	1-1	0-2	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	151	160	84	10.60	5.56	5.03	5.50	3.97	1.93	1.40	0.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	71	99	17	2	6-0	6-0	14-0	1.39	0.24	0.38	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	80	61	67	6	1-2	7-4	11-10	0.76	0.84	0.63	0.39

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