[[4:3.7500]] CHAMPION: Gilli Wins 2025 World Junior Curling Championships

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CHAMPION: Gilli Wins 2025 World Junior Curling Championships

Apr 12 - 21, 2025

Pinerolo, Italy
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SKIP
Stefano
Gilli
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Third
Andrea
Gilli
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Second
Stefano
Spiller
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Lead
Francesco
Vigliani
  
Games: 11  
Record: 10W - 1L  
PF/G: 8.92  
PA/G: 4.31  
Hammer Efficiency: 0.54  
Steal Defense: 0.11  
Force Efficiency: 0.71  
Steal Efficiency: 0.38  
Stefano Gilli (Pinerolo, ITA) won 9-5 over Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen in the Final of the World Junior Curling Championships, held April 12 - 21, 2025 in Cortina d, Italy. To advance to the championship game, Gilli won 9-2 over Korea's Daehyeon Kim in the semifinals of the 2025 World Junior Curling Championships in Cortina d, Italy;
 
Gilli finished 8-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gilli defeated Lukas Jaeger (Fuessen, GER) 5-3, then won 10-5 against Jacob Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN) and 6-3 against Felix Luethold (Wildhaus, SUI). Gilli won 10-3 against Toa Nakahara (Kitami, JPN), then won 9-4 against Orrin Carson (Stirling, SCO) and 11-7 against Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen. Gilli won 9-3 against Kenan Wipf (Calgary, CAN), then won 8-3 against Wesley Wendling (Chaska, USA). Gilli went on to lose 6-5 against Korea's Daehyeon Kim in their final qualifying round match.
 
Gilli earned 3.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 11 spots the World Ranking Standings into 117th place overall with 17.813 total points. Gilli ranks 117th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.813 points earned so far this season.
 

Statistics

 RECORD W L T PCT HMR STL 1PT EEH EES 
 2025 19 18 0 0.514 1-7 1-2 1-4 0-0 0-1 
 SCORING ENDs PF PA PF/G PA/G +/- EF/G EA/G PF/E PA/E BE/G 
 2025 274 202 185 7.37 6.75 0.62 4.60 4.38 1.60 1.54 1.02 
 WITH HAMMER ENDs PF PA BE 4s 3s 2s PF/E PA/E HE SD 
 2025 139 133 48 17 1-1 9-3 26-3 0.96 0.35 0.30 0.26 
 WITHOUT HAMMER ENDs PF PA BE 4s 3s 2s PF/E PA/E FE SE 
 2025 135 69 137 11 3-2 6-10 8-26 0.51 1.01 0.55 0.30 

Scores

 Draw Team Game Watch
  2 vs. Jaeger (GER) - WTR:266 W 5-3
  6 vs. Schmidt (DEN) - WTR:107 W 10-5
  8 vs. Luethold (SUI) - WTR:141 W 6-3
  10 vs. Nakahara (JPN) - WTR:348 W 10-3
  14 vs. Carson (SCO) - WTR:45 W 9-4
  16 vs. Hostmaelingen (NOR) - WTR:40 W 11-7
  18 vs. Wipf (CAN) - WTR:105 W 9-3
  22 vs. Wendling (USA) - WTR:131 W 8-3
  24 vs. Kim (KOR) - WTR:469 L 5-6
  SF vs. Kim (KOR) - WTR:469 W 9-2
  CF vs. Hostmaelingen (NOR) - WTR:40 W 9-5

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  • 2025: Lukas Hostmaelingen
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  • 2024: Lukas Hostmaelingen
    Lukas Hostmaelingen, Grunde Buraas, Magnus Lilleboe, Tinius Haslev Nordbye
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  • 2023: Xueqing Fei
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  • 2020: Jacques Gauthier
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  • 2019: Tyler Tardi
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  • 2018: Tyler Tardi
    Tyler Tardi, Sterling Middleton, Jordan Tardi, Zac Curtis, Jacques Gauthier
    Langley, CAN
  • 2017: Kijeong Lee
    Kijeong Lee, Kibok Lee, Seunghoon Oh, Won Yeong Choi, Kyung-Ho Woo
    Uiseong, KOR
  • 2016: Bruce Mouat
    Bruce Mouat, Duncan Menzies, Bobby Lammie, Gregor Cannon, Robin Brydone
    Edinburgh, SCO
  • 2015: Braden Calvert
    Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Lucas Van Den Bosch, Brendan Wilson, Colton Lott
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  • 2014: Yannick Schwaller
    Reto Keller, Yannick Schwaller, Patrick Witschonke, Michael Probst, Romano Keller-Meier
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  • 2011: Oskar Eriksson
    Kristian Lindstroem, Oskar Eriksson, Henrik Leek, Alexander Lindstroem, Christoffer Sundgren
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