Yamaguchi1-2 at 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Third
Riku
Yanagisawa

Second
Satoshi
Koizumi

Lead
Fukuhiro
Ohno

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN) finished 1-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yamaguchi lost 7-5 to Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, USA), then responded with a 8-1 win over Jacques Gauthier (Winnipeg, MB). Yamaguchi went on to lose 7-2 against Ruohonen in their final qualifying round match.

Yamaguchi earned 1.360 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 5 of the event schedule, Yamaguchi did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 125th place on the World Ranking Standings with 26.113 total points. Yamaguchi ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.659 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

2024: Chase Sinnett
Chase Sinnett, Samuel Strouse, Kevin Tuma, Connor Kauffman
Minneapolis, MN
2019: Jason Gunnlaugson
Jason Gunnlaugson, Alex Forrest, Adam Casey, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2018: Braden Calvert
Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Ian McMillan, Rob Gordon
Winnipeg, MB
2017: Braden Calvert
Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Lucas Van Den Bosch, Brendan Wilson
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Jason Gunnlaugson
Jason Gunnlaugson, Colton Lott, Kyle Doering, Rob Gordon
Winnipeg, MB

Northern Ontario's John Epping (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) will kick off their 2025-2026 season at the Trentino World Cup in Trentino, Italy.

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