CHAMPION: Jiang Wins 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Beijing, China

SKIP
Yilun
Jiang

Third
Lijun
Zhang

Second
Ziqi
Dong

Lead
Xindi
Jiang

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	8.78
PA/G:	5.12
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Yilun Jiang (Beijing, CHN) won 7-2 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, held August 1 - 4, 2019 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Jiang won 4-1 over Jie Mei (Beijing, CHN) in the semifinals of the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan;

Jiang finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jiang defeated Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) 5-3, then won 8-6 against Vlada Rumiantseva (Moscow, RUS). Jiang went on to lose 8-5 against Fujisawa. Jiang responded with a 7-1 win over Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic Championship title, Jiang earned 44.423 world rankings points along with the $12,502CDN first prize cheque, moving up 10 spots the World Ranking Standings into 18th place overall with 185.131 total points. Jiang ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.423 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

2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yilun Jiang
Yilun Jiang, Lijun Zhang, Ziqi Dong, Xindi Jiang
Beijing, CHN
2018: Min Ji Kim
Min Ji Kim, Hyerin Kim, Taei Yang, Sujin Kim
chuncheon city, KOR
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Amy Nixon, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters
Calgary, CAN

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