Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA) won 8-7 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada. of the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada; Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA) won 8-7 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada. Dropkin lost
9-6 to
ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada;
Dropkin finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated
Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) 10-8, then won
9-2 against
Chinese Taipei's Randie Shen. Dropkin went on to lose
10-6 against
Jeong. Dropkin responded with a
10-7 win over
Yanagisawa. Dropkin won
6-2 against
Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL), then won
8-3 against
Jay Merchant (Melbourne, AUS) and
9-3 against
Marcelo Mello (Sao Paolo, BRA) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the Pan-Continental Championships, Dropkin earn
21.250 world rankings points. Dropkin gained 6.5 points improving upon their best 4 events, though dropped 1 spots on the
World Ranking Standings into 12thplace overall with
190.496 total points. Dropkin ranks 7th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
131.500 points earned so far this season.
