Bronze for Schwaller at 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship

Geneva, Switzerland

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

SKIP
Yannick
Schwaller

Second
Sven
Michel

Lead
Pablo
Lachat-Couchepin

Games:	14
Record:	12W - 2L
PF/G:	8.87
PA/G:	5.40
Hammer Efficiency:	0.52
Steal Defense:	0.15
Force Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Efficiency:	0.21

Yannick Schwaller (Geneva, SUI) won 11-3 over Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship in Ottawa, Ontario. of the 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship in Ottawa, Ontario; Yannick Schwaller (Geneva, SUI) won 11-3 over Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship in Ottawa, Ontario. After receiving a bye through the quarterfinals, Schwaller lost 7-5 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship in Ottawa, Ontario;

Schwaller finished 11-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Schwaller defeated Gushue 8-3, then won 7-4 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) and 7-3 against Sixten Totzek (Baden Baden, GER). Schwaller went on to lose 8-4 against Retornaz. Schwaller responded with a 11-4 win over Magnus Ramsfjell (Lillehammer, NOR). Schwaller won 8-4 against ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR), then won 7-4 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) and 8-2 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR). Schwaller won 7-5 against Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL), then won 12-9 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA) and 7-6 against Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). Schwaller won 8-5 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship, Schwaller earn 49.500 world rankings points, remaining in 7th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 19.75 after improving upon their best so far this season. Schwaller ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 307.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	4	3	0	0.571	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	49	36	38	7.35	7.76	-0.41	4.29	4.90	1.71	1.58	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	28	27	19	3	1-1	2-0	6-4	0.96	0.68	0.36	0.43

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	21	9	19	1	0-0	0-2	1-3	0.43	0.90	0.58	0.38

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