Fujisawa Runner-Up at 2022 Winter Olympics

SKIP
Satsuki
Fujisawa

Third
Chinami
Yoshida

Second
Yumi
Suzuki

Lead
Yurika
Yoshida

Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) lost 10-3 to Eve Muirhead (Stirling, UK) in the Final of the Winter Olympics, held February 4 - 20, 2022 in Beijing, China. To advance to the championship game, Fujisawa won 8-6 over Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) in the semifinals

Fujisawa finished 5-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fujisawa lost 8-5 to Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE), then responded with a 8-5 win over Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, CAN). Fujisawa won 8-7 against Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN), then won 10-5 against Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) and 10-2 against Yu Han (Beijing, CHN). Fujisawa went on to lose 10-5 against Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR). Fujisawa lost 10-4 to Muirhead where Fujisawa responded with a 10-7 win over Tabitha Peterson (St. Paul, USA). Fujisawa went on to lose 8-4 against Tirinzoni in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Winter Olympics, Fujisawa take home 95.185 world rankings points. Fujisawa move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 90.769 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 4th overall with 351.760 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Fujisawa ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 266.042 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	37	19	0	0.661	11-6	6-6	2-3	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	449	363	288	8.08	6.41	1.67	5.08	4.03	1.59	1.59	0.89

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	207	266	51	17	6-0	16-2	60-13	1.29	0.25	0.43	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	242	97	237	23	1-3	6-13	10-55	0.40	0.98	0.52	0.30

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