CHAMPION: Segawa Wins 2024 Tohoku Curling Championships

SKIP
Kotoka
Segawa

Third
Michiko
Tomabechi

Second
Rio
Matsubara

Lead
Akiyoshi
Shimohori

Kotoka Segawa (Morioka, JPN) won 9-8 over Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN) in the Final of the Tohoku Curling Championships, held December 8 - 10, 2023 in Tohoku, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Segawa won 6-5 over Juri Kojima (Tohoku, JPN) in the semifinals

Segawa finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Segawa defeated Tomomi Noguchi (Tohoku, JPN) 11-4, then won 16-0 against Moe Sakura (Tohoku, JPN) and 12-1 against Rin Suzuki (Aomori, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Tohoku Curling Championships Championship title, Segawa earned 3.750 world rankings points. For week 20 of the event schedule, Segawa did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Segawa ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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