CHAMPION: Muirhead Wins 2022 Winter Olympics

SKIP
Eve
Muirhead

Third
Vicky
Wright

Second
Jennifer
Dodds

Lead
Hailey
Duff

Eve Muirhead (Stirling, UK) won 10-3 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the Winter Olympics, held February 4 - 20, 2022 in Beijing, China. To advance to the championship game, Muirhead won 12-11 over Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE) in the semifinals of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China;

Muirhead finished 5-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Muirhead lost 6-5 to Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI), then responded with a 8-2 win over Hasselborg. Muirhead went on to lose 9-7 against Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR). Muirhead responded with a 10-5 win over Tabitha Peterson (St. Paul, USA). Muirhead won 7-2 against Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN). Muirhead went on to lose 7-3 against Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, CAN). Muirhead responded with a 10-4 win over Fujisawa. Muirhead went on to lose 8-4 against Yu Han (Beijing, CHN). Muirhead responded with a 9-4 win over Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Winter Olympics Championship title, Muirhead earned 129.797 world rankings points, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 2nd place overall with 428.032 total points. Muirhead ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 357.036 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	42	11	0	0.792	15-5	7-2	1-2	1-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	436	383	232	8.78	5.32	3.46	5.18	3.85	1.69	1.38	0.96

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	218	276	43	26	7-0	19-1	60-5	1.27	0.20	0.45	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	218	107	189	16	0-3	7-7	23-34	0.49	0.87	0.67	0.32

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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