CHAMPION: Fei Wins 2023 World Junior Curling Championships

SKIP
Xueqing
Fei

Third
Tianqi
Guan

Second
Zhichao
Li

Lead
Xingyin
Xie

Xueqing Fei (Beijing, CHN) won 8-7 over Benny Kapp (Fuessen/Oberstdorf , GER) in the Final of the World Junior Curling Championships, held February 25 - March 4, 2023 in Fuessen, Germany. To advance to the championship game, Fei won 8-1 over Orrin Carson (Dumfries, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2023 World Junior Curling Championships in Fuessen, Germany;

Fei finished 6-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fei lost 8-5 to Switzerland's Jan Iseli, then responded with a 9-6 win over Landan Rooney (Whitby, CAN). Fei went on to lose 6-5 against Ethan Sampson (Chaska, USA). Fei lost 9-6 to Serkan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR) where Fei responded with a 9-3 win over Carson. Fei won 11-3 against Eunbin Kim (Kyungil, KOR), then won 7-6 against Lukas Hostmaelingen (Oslo, NOR) and 7-6 against Giacomo Colli (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA). Fei won 4-3 against Kapp in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Junior Curling Championships Championship title, Fei earned 30.000 world rankings points, moving up 445 spots the World Ranking Standings into 112th place overall with 30.000 total points. Fei ranks 109th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 30.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	8	3	0	0.727	3-1	2-2	2-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	105	79	58	7.52	5.52	2.00	4.38	3.90	1.72	1.41	1.71

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	52	59	11	10	1-0	8-0	8-1	1.13	0.21	0.40	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	53	20	47	8	1-1	0-2	3-9	0.38	0.89	0.61	0.26

Duluth's Korey Dropkin (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) is set to begin their tour season at the Euro Super Series in Stirling, Scotland.

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