Yoshioka3-5 at 2020 Japan National Championship

SKIP
Hiroki
Yoshioka

Third
Hiromitsu
Fujinaka

Second
Hiroshi
Fukui

Lead
Yusuke
Nonomura

Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN) finished 3-5 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshioka defeated Kantaro Kawano (Sapporo, JPN) 8-5, then went on to lose 10-5 against Yuya Takigahira (Nayoro, JPN). Yoshioka responded with a 6-0 win over Kotaro Noguchi (Miyagi, JPN). Yoshioka went on to lose 6-1 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Yoshioka lost 11-2 to Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN). Yoshioka lost 9-3 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Yoshioka lost 11-2 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) where Yoshioka responded with a 10-9 win over Ryutaro Tani (Hokkaido, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Yoshioka earned 4.587 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 30 of the event schedule, Yoshioka did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Yoshioka 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

Gyeonggi's Team Gim Eun-ji (Photo: Olympics) will represent Korea for a third straight season at the international level.

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