CHAMPION: Klima Wins Prague Classic

SKIP
Lukas
Klima

Third
Marek
Cernovsky

Second
Martin
Jurik

Lead
Lukas
Klipa

Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) won 10-8 over Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR) in the Final of the Prague Classic, held November 9 - 12 in Prague, Czechia. To advance to the championship game, Klima won 8-2 over Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) in the semifinals of the Prague Classic in Prague, Czechia;

Klima finished 5-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Klima defeated Jan Tanner (Zug, SUI) 6-4, then won 12-1 against Matias Hanninen (Joensuu, FIN) and 8-2 against Vitek Chabicovsky (Prague, CZE). Klima won 10-2 against Anna Kubeskova (Prague, CZE), then won 8-1 against Jakub Cervenka (Bratislava, SVK). Klima went on to lose 0-0 against Stocker in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Prague Classic Championship title, Klima earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $6,064CDN first prize cheque. Klima move up 14 spots after posting a net gain of 9.038 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 59th overall with 57.413 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Klima ranks 47th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 33.563 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	27	25	0	0.519	3-4	2-8	1-2	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	379	295	264	7.78	6.97	0.82	4.78	4.62	1.63	1.51	0.61

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	191	219	70	13	5-2	15-2	43-10	1.15	0.37	0.35	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	188	76	194	10	0-1	5-12	13-42	0.40	1.03	0.56	0.28

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