CHAMPION: Tao Wins 2024 World Junior-B Curling Championships

SKIP
Johnson
Tao

Third
Jaedon
Neuert

Second
Zach
Davies

Lead
Adam
Naugler

Johnson Tao (Edmonton, CAN) won 7-4 over Wesley Wendling (Wausau, USA) in the Final of the World Junior-B Curling Championships, held December 14 - 19, 2023 in Lohja, Finland. To advance to the championship game, Tao won 7-4 over William Becker (Naseby, NZL) in the semifinals of the 2024 World Junior-B Curling Championships in Lohja, Finland; and won 6-4 over Axel Landelius (Mjoelby, SWE) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 World Junior-B Curling Championships in Lohja, Finland;

Tao finished 4-2 in the 22-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tao lost 6-3 to Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR), then responded with a 11-2 win over Selahattin Eser (Erzurum, TUR). Tao won 7-2 against Aidos Alliyar (Almaty, KAZ). Tao went on to lose 6-3 against Ryo Aoki (Sapporo, JPN). Tao responded with a 7-5 win over Matthaus Hofer (Kitzbuehel, AUT). Tao won 7-2 against Antoni Frynia (Lodz, POL) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Junior-B Curling Championships Championship title, Tao earned 7.500 world rankings points. For week 22 of the event schedule, Tao did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 65th place on the World Ranking Standings with 54.914 total points. Tao ranks 75th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 30.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	19	0	0.568	6-2	3-2	0-2	1-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	354	261	207	7.37	5.85	1.53	4.55	3.67	1.62	1.59	1.78

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	163	181	42	22	3-0	10-1	42-7	1.11	0.26	0.39	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	191	80	165	41	1-2	6-9	12-42	0.42	0.86	0.45	0.28

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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