Park

SKIP
Jongduk
Park

Third
Yeongseok
Jeong

Second
Seunghoon
Oh

Lead
Jihoon
Seong

Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Park finished 3-2 in the 30-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Park defeated Rob Nobert (Vernon, BC) 3-2, then went on to lose 7-4 against Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, AB). Park responded with a 7-4 win over Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK). Park went on to lose 9-4 against Mike McEwen (Saskatoon, SK). Park responded with a 5-2 win over Nolan Blaeser (Vernon, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Park earned 6.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Park move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 9.961 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 31st overall with 125.117 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Park ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 110.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	41	30	0	0.577	11-1	6-6	7-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	540	402	374	7.44	6.93	0.52	4.35	4.20	1.71	1.65	1.44

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	258	307	72	36	8-1	27-3	56-11	1.19	0.28	0.41	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	282	95	302	42	3-6	5-22	12-61	0.34	1.07	0.49	0.23

2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: 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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