CHAMPION: Schwaller Wins 2022 Curling Stadium Martensville International

Geneva, Switzerland

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

SKIP
Yannick
Schwaller

Second
Sven
Michel

Lead
Pablo
Lachat

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	9.79
PA/G:	4.58
Hammer Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.80
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Yannick Schwaller (Geneva, SUI) won 6-5 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the Curling Stadium Martensville International, held September 1 - 5, 2022 at the Martensville Curling Club in Martensville, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Schwaller won 9-2 over Mike McEwen (Toronto, ON) in the semifinals of the 2022 Curling Stadium Martensville International in Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Schwaller finished 4-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Schwaller lost 6-4 to Yanagisawa, then responded with a 9-2 win over John Epping (Toronto, ON). Schwaller won 10-3 against Kyler Kleibrink (Calgary, AB), then won 5-2 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) and 4-2 against Kody Hartung (Saskatoonc, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curling Stadium Martensville International Championship title, Schwaller earned 33.750 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 11th place overall with 169.293 total points. Schwaller ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 63.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	4	3	0	0.571	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	49	36	38	7.35	7.76	-0.41	4.29	4.90	1.71	1.58	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	28	27	19	3	1-1	2-0	6-4	0.96	0.68	0.36	0.43

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	21	9	19	1	0-0	0-2	1-3	0.43	0.90	0.58	0.38

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