Krause4-4 at 2021 Olympic Qualification Event

SKIP
Mikkel
Krause

Third
Mads
Noergaard

Second
Henrik
Holtermann

Lead
Kasper
Wiksten

Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN) finished 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Krause defeated Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) 5-4, then won 11-3 against Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN). Krause went on to lose 6-5 against Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA). Krause responded with a 9-2 win over Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Krause went on to lose 7-4 against Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR). Krause lost 8-7 to SooHyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR) where Krause responded with a 8-2 win over Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER). Krause went on to lose 7-5 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Krause earned 30.281 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Olympic Qualification Event, moving up 65 spots the World Ranking Standings into 67th place overall with 61.328 total points. Krause ranks 60th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.342 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	10	17	0	0.370	6-4	2-11	4-4	2-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	235	149	179	6.34	7.62	-1.28	4.30	4.64	1.48	1.64	1.06

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	119	123	43	12	1-2	8-2	21-6	1.03	0.36	0.28	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	116	26	136	13	0-2	2-9	4-27	0.22	1.17	0.55	0.16

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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