The Geneva defeated Japan in game 3. Place after a 2:4 deficit at the end clearly with 8:4.
The Swiss took the initial advantage of the last stone bad. After two blank Ends, they had to settle for a point, the the of Yuta Matsumura listed Japanese at the time of their first opportunity with the last stone, in 4. End, with a three house countered.
The turning point came in the 7. End, in which the Swiss 2:4 set 6:4. Possible, the proceeds of which was at the end of four house thanks to a miraculous that is double-Takeout, with Benoît Black its demonstrated ordinary skills clearly. Then the Swiss stole a stone, for the preliminary rounds, 7:4.
The most important results of the season for the Geneva-based world class Team are the somewhat disappointing 6. Place of the EM in November and the current 3. Rank at the world Cup. The Winter of 2018/19 for you, however, nothing more than a stage on the way to the big goal, to participate in the Olympic Games in 2022 in Beijing. You don’t have to give to the competition from other countries, but also on the national. The young Team Bern-Zähringer to Skip Yannick Schwaller from the successful Schwaller dynasty is in the running season which is already quite close to the Geneva approached.
First, however, must fight for Switzerland, the Olympic quota place. The ten Olympic places will be awarded at the world Championships in 2020 and 2021, as well as a short before the winter games to be held in the hope tournament.
It would have been more possible
At the world Cup tournament in the South of Calgary in the canadian province of Alberta, located Lethbridge would be for the Olympic third, Valentin Tanner, Peter De Cruz and Sven Michel and Benoît, Black from CC Geneva with a little luck, but more possible than the 3. Rank.
The Swiss were very close to the first championship final of the men’s Swiss teams since the age of 16, and even winning the title – it would have been the first for the Swiss men’s Curling since 1992 – seemed to be impossible. In the semi-final between Switzerland and the two-time world champion Kevin Koe-mentioned title favorites Canada, decided after the last stone of the extra End mm against the Swiss and the Canadians. It 5 was:6 instead of 6:5.
Both Teams had shown in the whole Match, Curling at a very high level. The evaluated statistician of the Federation is determined for both Teams, a rate of 89 percent on successful Try – this is a very high value, especially in a game of this importance. The superior Swiss point 4, Benoît Schwarz came to 93 percent, with which he distanced his direct opponent Kevin Koe of three per cent.
Topcurler Edin to 4. Time world, most of Sweden
Sweden’s Skip Niklas Edin selects in the Final of the most successful Curler in the history of world Championships. With a 7:2 win against Canada, the two-time world champion Skip Kevin Koe, the 33-Year-old from Karlstad to 2013, 2015 and 2018 for the fourth Time world champion.
Only the now 87-year-old legendary Canadians Ernie Richardson also won four titles – to have participated in this beginning of the world Cup history between 1959 and 1963, when the world Cup tournaments were largely a matter between Canada and Scotland and only a very few Nations.
Ernie Richardson, who played at the time with three other Richardson’s, a brother and two Cousins, was called “The King”. Thus, of Edin with its outstanding achievements in the broad and strong competition, just right, “The King of Curling”. At the last two world Cup-winning tournaments, Sweden 24 of 26 Games.
In the Final, had the Canadians after the 7. End of the nose just in front. It was 2:2, and the Canadians had the advantage of last stone. But two Ends later, the Curler from Calgary, which had been defeated in the semi-final, the Swiss Team Peter De Cruz in an extra-End saw themselves forced to Give up. The towards the end of the game, great performances Sweden stole in the 8th End of two and 9. End even three stones. (sda)
Created: 07.04.2019, 23:12 PM
