Walstad8-0 at 2021 Olympic Qualification Event

SKIP
Steffen
Walstad

Third
Torger
Nergaard

Second
Markus
Hoiberg

Lead
Magnus
Vaagberg

Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) finished 8-0 in the 9 team Olympic Qualification Event qualifying round, held December 11 - 18, 2021 in , . In their opening game, Walstad defeated Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) 8-5, then won 10-6 against SooHyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR) and 6-4 against Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN). Walstad won 7-4 against Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER), then won 7-4 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN) and 5-4 against Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA). Walstad won 7-4 against Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN), then won 8-5 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Olympic Qualification Event Championship title, Walstad earned 53.438 world rankings points. Walstad move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 43.198 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 16th overall with 206.592 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Walstad ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 141.653 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
0	8	0	0	1.000	4-0	4-0	1-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
0	75	58	36	7.73	4.80	2.93	4.67	3.47	1.66	1.38	1.87

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
0	31	46	3	3	1-0	3-0	12-0	1.48	0.10	0.57	0.10

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
0	44	12	33	11	0-0	0-0	2-10	0.27	0.75	0.57	0.23

Sweden's Team Isabella Wrana (Photo: Anil Mungal, GSOC) takes the top seed heading into the Women's Masters Basel playoffs in Basel.

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