CHAMPION: Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen Wins FISU World University Games

SKIP
Lukas
Hostmaelingen

Third
Tinius Haslev
Nordbye

Second
Magnus
Lilleboe

Lead
Grunde
Buraas

Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen won 8-4 over Caden Hebert (Eau Claire, USA) in the Final of the FISU World University Games, held January 15 - 23 in Turin, Italy. To advance to the championship game, Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen won 7-4 over Jan Iseli (Solothurn , SUI) in the semifinals of the FISU World University Games in Turin, Italy;

Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen finished 8-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen defeated Hebert 4-3, then won 12-2 against Axel Landelius (Mjolby, SWE) and 8-5 against Iseli. Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen won 8-3 against Great Britain's Arran Thomson, then won 8-6 against Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR) and 8-3 against Tianyu Meng (Harbin, CHN). Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen won 10-4 against Josh Bryden (Regina, CAN). Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen went on to lose 6-4 against JaeBeom Lee (Uiseong, KOR). Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen responded with a 9-2 win over Giacomo Colli (Trentino, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the FISU World University Games Championship title, Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen earned 11.250 world rankings points, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 46th place overall with 87.781 total points. Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen ranks 50th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 60.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	43	21	0	0.672	4-2	1-2	2-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	448	394	280	8.79	6.25	2.54	4.84	4.13	1.82	1.51	1.03

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	218	271	69	24	10-0	25-2	45-12	1.24	0.32	0.41	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	230	123	211	22	3-2	12-21	13-30	0.53	0.92	0.60	0.33

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