Walstad4-5 at 2022 Winter Olympics

SKIP
Steffen
Walstad

Third
Torger
Nergaard

Second
Markus
Hoiberg

Lead
Magnus
Vaagberg

Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) finished 4-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Walstad defeated Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) 7-4, then went on to lose 6-5 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Walstad lost 8-3 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, UK) where Walstad responded with a 7-6 win over John Shuster (Chaska, USA). Walstad went on to lose 6-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Walstad lost 6-5 to Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN) where Walstad responded with a 12-5 win over Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS). Walstad went on to lose 8-6 against Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN). Walstad responded with a 9-4 win over Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

Walstad earned 21.718 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Walstad move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 16.093 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 15th overall with 206.080 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Walstad ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 173.611 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	50	25	0	0.667	14-0	11-11	5-4	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	607	461	352	7.59	5.80	1.80	4.66	4.10	1.63	1.41	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	280	342	67	26	9-0	18-3	72-11	1.22	0.24	0.39	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	327	119	285	49	6-1	0-13	22-57	0.36	0.87	0.64	0.24

Gyeonggi's Team Gim Eun-ji (Photo: Olympics) will represent Korea for a third straight season at the international level.

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