Bronze for Yanagisawa at 2024 Pan-Continental Championships

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) won 9-6 over Andrew Stopera (Duluth, MN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Pan-Continental Championships in Kelowna, British Columbia. of the 2024 Pan-Continental Championships in Kelowna, British Columbia; Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) won 9-6 over Andrew Stopera (Duluth, MN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Pan-Continental Championships in Kelowna, British Columbia. Yanagisawa lost 8-7 to Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2024 Pan-Continental Championships in Kelowna, British Columbia;

Yanagisawa are currently 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Randie Shen (Taipei City, TPE) 12-2, then won 9-2 against Rayad Husain (Georgetown, GUY) and 11-6 against Australia's Jay Merchant. Yanagisawa went on to lose 6-3 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Yanagisawa responded with a 6-4 win over Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL). Yanagisawa won 4-2 against Stopera, then won 10-5 against Park. In their next game, Yanagisawa plays.

With their third place finish at the Pan-Continental Championships, Yanagisawa earn 21.250 world rankings points. Yanagisawa move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 13.75 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 21st overall with 167.109 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yanagisawa ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 61.875 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

2024: Xiao Ming Xu
Xiao Ming Xu, Xueqing Fei, Zhi Yu Wang, Zhichao Li, Jianjun Ye, Weidong Tan
Beijing, CHN
2023: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker, Jim Cotter, Caleb Flaxey
St. John's, CAN
2022: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker, Nathan Young
St. John's, CAN

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