Yanagisawa1-3 at 2023 HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 1

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 1-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa lost 5-4 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA), then responded with a 6-5 win over Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Yanagisawa went on to lose 6-5 against Ross Whyte (Stirling, SCO). Yanagisawa lost 4-3 to John Shuster (Duluth , MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Yanagisawa earned 3.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Yanagisawa gained -13.547 points improving upon their best 4 events, though dropped 6 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 24thplace overall with 153.359 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 32nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 48.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	49	37	0	0.570	18-10	9-2	8-8	2-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	661	514	391	7.78	5.92	1.86	4.58	3.89	1.70	1.52	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	329	383	69	55	11-0	26-3	76-9	1.16	0.21	0.41	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	332	131	322	46	4-4	8-23	16-60	0.39	0.97	0.57	0.25

2023: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2022: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NO
2018: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NO
2017: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker , Jules Owchar
St. John's, NL
2016: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2015: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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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