CHAMPION: Edin Wins 2022 Winter Olympics

SKIP
Niklas
Edin

Third
Oskar
Eriksson

Second
Rasmus
Wrana

Lead
Christoffer
Sundgren

Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) won 5-4 over Bruce Mouat (Stirling, UK) in the Final of the Winter Olympics, held February 9 - 20, 2022 in Beijing, China. To advance to the championship game, Edin won 5-3 over Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in the semifinals of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China;

Edin finished 7-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Edin defeated Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN) 6-4, then won 7-4 against John Shuster (Chaska, USA) and 9-3 against Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA). Edin won 7-4 against Gushue, then won 6-4 against Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) and 7-5 against Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS). Edin won 8-3 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN). Edin went on to lose 7-6 against Mouat. Edin lost 10-8 to Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Winter Olympics Championship title, Edin earned 108.591 world rankings points, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 3rd place overall with 408.911 total points. Edin ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 332.703 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	66	22	0	0.750	27-6	13-2	8-3	1-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	697	547	376	7.85	5.39	2.45	4.65	3.86	1.69	1.40	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	357	436	61	60	11-0	32-0	88-10	1.22	0.17	0.44	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	340	111	315	44	2-4	5-9	16-66	0.33	0.93	0.64	0.23

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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