CHAMPION: Muirhead Wins 2019 WCT Arctic Cup

SKIP
Eve
Muirhead

Third
Lauren
Gray

Second
Vicky
Wright

Lead
Vicki
Chalmers

Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO) won 5-4 over Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Muirhead won 8-2 over Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS) in the semifinals of the 2019 WCT Arctic Cup in Dudinka, Russia;

Muirhead finished 4-0 in the 9 team WCT Arctic Cup qualifying round, held May 22 - 27, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Muirhead defeated Isabella Wrana (Stockholm, SWE) 7-3, then won 3-2 against Kovaleva and 13-1 against Anna Venevtseva (Krasnoyarsk, RUS). Muirhead won 7-2 against KyeongAe Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the WCT Arctic Cup Championship title, Muirhead earned 42.969 world rankings points along with the $24,308CDN first prize cheque. For week 41 of the event schedule, Muirhead did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Muirhead ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	6	0	0	1.000	3-0	1-0	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	41	43	14	10.49	3.41	7.07	5.61	2.68	1.87	1.27	1.71

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	16	28	1	3	3-0	1-0	4-0	1.75	0.06	0.62	0.06

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	25	15	13	4	0-0	1-0	2-3	0.60	0.52	0.70	0.44

2019: Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead, Lauren Gray, Vicky Wright, Vicki Chalmers
Stirling, SCO
2018: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Niklas Edin
Canada/Sweden,
2017: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Aleksandra Raeva, Nkeiruka Ezekh, Alina Kovaleva
Moscow, RUS

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