Bronze for Yanagisawa at 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	8.72
PA/G:	4.68
Hammer Efficiency:	0.39
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.62
Steal Efficiency:	0.32

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) won 7-3 over Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. of the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan; Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) won 7-3 over Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. Yanagisawa lost 6-5 to Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan;

Yanagisawa finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Sato 8-1, then won 9-3 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) and 8-4 against Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN). Yanagisawa went on to lose 5-4 against ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Yanagisawa earn 13.500 world rankings points and 1858CDN, remaining in 15th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 181.875 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.500 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: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
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