Nikolov3-6 at 2025 FISU World University Games

SKIP
Eduard
Nikolov

Third
Yaroslav
Shchur

Second
Artem
Suhak

Lead
Vladyslav
Koval

Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR) finished 3-6 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nikolov lost 7-4 to Axel Landelius (Mjolby, SWE), droppimg another game, 8-6 to Great Britain's Arran Thomson where Nikolov responded with a 6-5 win over JaeBeom Lee (Uiseong, KOR). Nikolov went on to lose 7-1 against Giacomo Colli (Trentino, ITA). Nikolov lost 8-6 to Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen where Nikolov responded with a 7-5 win over Jan Iseli (Solothurn , SUI). Nikolov went on to lose 6-4 against Caden Hebert (Eau Claire, USA). Nikolov lost 7-1 to Josh Bryden (Regina, CAN) where Nikolov responded with a 6-3 win over Tianyu Meng (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

Nikolov earned 1.688 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 20 spots the World Ranking Standings into 192nd place overall with 6.469 total points. Nikolov ranks 186th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.438 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	9	21	0	0.300	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
2025	237	156	195	6.58	8.23	-1.65	4.30	4.81	1.53	1.71	0.89

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	117	119	53	7	2-1	8-3	22-7	1.02	0.45	0.29	0.32

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	120	37	142	14	0-4	0-11	8-31	0.31	1.18	0.40	0.24

The Swiss Olympic rink (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) are off and running as they aim to top the podium in Cortina.

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