CHAMPION: Hostmaelingen Wins 2024 World Junior Curling Championships

SKIP
Lukas
Hostmaelingen

Third
Grunde
Buraas

Second
Magnus
Lilleboe

Lead
Tinius Haslev
Nordbye

Lukas Hostmaelingen (Oslo, NOR) won 7-6 over Italy's Stefano Gilli in the Final of the World Junior Curling Championships, held February 17 - 24, 2024 in Lohja, Finland. To advance to the championship game, Hostmaelingen won 10-4 over Wesley Wendling (Wausau, USA) in the semifinals of the 2024 World Junior Curling Championships in Lohja, Finland;

Hostmaelingen finished 7-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hostmaelingen defeated Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER) 8-7, then went on to lose 8-7 against Wendling. Hostmaelingen responded with a 5-4 win over Italy's Stefano Gilli. Hostmaelingen won 7-4 against Manuel Jermann (Arlesheim, SUI), then won 6-3 against Jacob Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN) and 8-4 against Johnson Tao (Edmonton, CAN). Hostmaelingen won 7-2 against Sam Flanagan (Naseby, NZL), then won 9-3 against Liqiunan Tao (Beijing, CHN). Hostmaelingen went on to lose 7-5 against Orrin Carson (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Junior Curling Championships Championship title, Hostmaelingen earned 22.500 world rankings points, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 34th place overall with 100.875 total points. Hostmaelingen ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 100.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	27	19	0	0.587	10-2	2-4	2-2	0-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	350	259	242	7.40	6.91	0.49	4.57	4.34	1.62	1.59	1.09

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	176	206	58	23	4-3	17-4	41-6	1.17	0.33	0.41	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	174	53	184	15	0-5	1-7	10-34	0.30	1.06	0.61	0.24

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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