 Kristin Moen Skaslien/Magnus Nedregotten (Oslo, NOR) wins the International Mixed Doubles Sochi, defeating Anastasia Bryzgalova/Alexander Krushelnitskiy (St. Petersburg, RUS) 8-7 in an extra end. Skaslien/Nedregotten take home the $4,456CDN first place cheque while Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy receives $2,546CDN for their second place finish. Starting with hammer, Skaslien/Nedregotten scored 4 in the first end, then added a steal in the second end. Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy scored 3 in the third end, then added a steal or their own in the fourth end. Skaslien/Nedregotten scored a single in the fifth end to extend lead to 6-4, then forced Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy to a single in the sixth end. Skaslien/Nedregotten added on more the seventh end with Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy responding in the eighth end scoring 2 to send the game to an extra end where Skaslien/Nedregotten scored a single for the 8-7 win. Polina Bikker/Petr Dron (St. Petersburg, RUS) won 10-4 over Ildiko Szekeres/Gyeorgy Nagy (Budapest, HUN) in the bronze medal game. Bikker/Dron took home $1,910CDN, while Szekeres/Nagy won $1,273CDN. In the semifinals, Skaslien/Nedregotten deated Szekeres/Nagy 10-3 and Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy won 8-3 over Bikker/Dron. In the quarterfinals, Skaslien/Nedregotten won 8-4 over Rui Wang/De Xin Ba (Harbin, CHN), Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy defeated Maria Komarova/Daniil Goryachev (St. Petersburg, RUS) 8-3, Bikker/Dron won 7-6 over Alina Biktimirova/Timur Gadzhikhanov (Moscow, RUS) and Szekeres/Nagy eliminated Ekaterina Antonova/Sergey Adrianov (Moscow, RUS) by a score of 8-5. Wang/Ba, Komarova/Goryachev, Biktimirova/Gadzhikhanov and Antonova/Adrianov earned $637CDN for their quarterfinal finishes. Skaslien/Nedregotten went 4-1 in the 24 team qualifying round. In their opening game, Skaslien/Nedregotten defeated Nadezhda Okorokova/Yury Morozov (Moscow, RUS) 10-1, won against Viktoria Enbaeva/Dmitry Mironov (Sochi, RUS) 9-4, and Olga Kotelnikova/Alexey Tuzov (Dmitrov, RUS) 7-4. Skaslien/Nedregotten won their fourth game over Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy 8-6, then losing their final round-robin game to Anastasia Khalanskaia/Andrey Drozdov (St. Petersburg, RUS) 7-5. ------------ ISS Ice, Sports & Solar is title sponsor of the ISS WORLD MIXED DOUBLES TOUR. They are supplying excellence in building 1st class Ice Facilities around the world since 1981. The German based company has also supplied the Curling Ice for the 2016 Men's World in Basel and the 2014 Mixed Doubles and Seniors in Dumfries. In 2017 they built the test Curling Sheets in the Water Cube Beijing for the 2022 Olympics. Find out more on https://iss4u.de/?lang=en. |
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