Kim2-6 at 2021 Olympic Qualification Event

SKIP
Soo-Hyuk
Kim

Third
Chang-Min
Kim

Second
Jae Ik
Jeon

Lead
Hak Kyun
Kim

SooHyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR) finished 2-6 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim lost 7-3 to Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA), droppimg another game, 10-6 to Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR). Kim lost 6-5 to Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN). Kim lost 14-6 to Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) where Kim responded with a 8-7 win over Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN). Kim won 10-1 against Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER). Kim went on to lose 5-3 against Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Kim lost 8-3 to Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in their final qualifying round match.

Kim earned 5.344 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 21 of the event schedule, Kim did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 38th to 39th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 101.749 total points. Kim ranks 45th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 55.311 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	49	28	0	0.636	16-9	7-8	5-4	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	609	498	408	8.18	6.70	1.48	4.76	4.30	1.72	1.56	0.94

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	307	379	87	32	8-1	30-5	80-8	1.23	0.28	0.43	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	302	119	321	25	1-6	6-18	23-68	0.39	1.06	0.53	0.27

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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