Bronze for Kitazawa at 2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

SKIP
Ikue
Kitazawa

Third
Seina
Nakajima

Second
Minori
Suzuki

Lead
Hasumi
Ishigooka

Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) won 6-2 over Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. of the 2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan; Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) won 6-2 over Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. Kitazawa lost 7-6 to Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan;

Kitazawa finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kitazawa defeated Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) 7-6, then went on to lose 7-3 against Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN). Kitazawa responded with a 8-3 win over Sae Yamamoto (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Kitazawa earn 10.625 world rankings points and 1900CDN. Kitazawa gained 59.705 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 33 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 33rdplace overall with 59.705 total points. Kitazawa ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	46	24	0	0.657	12-1	7-6	1-2	0-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	507	474	306	9.35	6.04	3.31	5.31	3.93	1.76	1.54	0.77

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	233	303	74	19	13-0	20-6	60-9	1.30	0.32	0.43	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	274	171	232	20	5-1	8-20	31-43	0.62	0.85	0.56	0.39

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

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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