CHAMPION: Edin Wins 2023 Sun City Cup

SKIP
Niklas
Edin

Third
Oskar
Eriksson

Second
Rasmus
Wrana

Lead
Christoffer
Sundgren

Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) won 5-2 over Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) in the Final of the Sun City Cup, held February 23 - 26, 2023 in Karlstad, Sweden. To advance to the championship game, Edin won 8-4 over Magnus Ramsfjell (Lillehammer, NOR) in the semifinals of the 2023 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden; and won 7-3 over Fredrik Nyman (Solleftea, SWE) in the quarterfinals.

Edin finished 5-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Edin defeated Mats Wrana (Sundbyberg, SWE) 8-1, then won 11-2 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR) and 10-1 against Jonathan Vilandt (Hvidovre, DEN). Edin won 9-2 against Sweden's Patric Klaremo, then won 7-1 against James Craik (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Sun City Cup Championship title, Edin earned 30.000 world rankings points along with the $3,913CDN first prize cheque. For week 30 of the event schedule, Edin did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 1st place on the World Ranking Standings with 385.897 total points. Edin ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 325.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	84	23	0	0.785	22-6	12-7	6-8	3-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	794	720	437	9.07	5.50	3.56	5.06	3.79	1.79	1.45	1.15

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	390	538	67	49	13-0	48-3	112-9	1.38	0.17	0.51	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	404	182	370	42	5-2	8-18	37-79	0.45	0.92	0.60	0.28

2025: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Stirling, SCO
2024: Wouter Gosgens
Wouter Gosgens, Laurens Hoekman, Jaap van Dorp, Tobias van den Hurk, Alexander Magan
Zoetermeer, NED
2023: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE