CHAMPION: Kim Wins 2022 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Eunjung
Kim

Third
Kyeongae
Kim

Second
Chohi
Kim

Lead
Seonyeong
Kim

Eunjung Kim (Gangneung , KOR) won 6-3 over Kerri Einarson (Gimli, MB) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held December 16 - 18, 2022 in Karuizawa, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Kim won 7-5 over Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals

Kim finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim defeated Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) 5-3, then went on to lose 6-3 against Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN). Kim responded with a 10-4 win over Asuka Kanai (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Kim earned 33.750 world rankings points along with the $8,035CDN first prize cheque. Kim move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 26.25 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 9th overall with 205.284 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kim ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 103.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	24	18	0	0.571	5-2	3-4	1-0	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	327	248	225	7.58	6.88	0.70	4.62	4.40	1.64	1.56	0.98

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	163	187	56	18	4-1	13-5	39-6	1.15	0.34	0.39	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	164	61	169	14	1-1	3-11	11-35	0.37	1.03	0.57	0.25

2023: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Ami Enami
Nagano, JPN
2022: Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim, Kyeongae Kim, Chohi Kim, Seonyeong Kim, Yeongmi Kim, Myungsup Lim
Gangneung , KOR
2019: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Julia Portunova, Olga Kotelnikova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2018: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Julia Portunova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min-Ji Um, Seul-Bee Lee, Yoon-Jung Yeom, Ye eun Seol
Gyeonggi-do, KOR
2015: Ayumi Ogasawara
Ayumi Ogasawara, Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Fuji Miki
Sapporo, JPN
2014: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2013: Binia Feltscher
Binia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech
Flims, SUI

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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