CHAMPION: Han Wins 2024 Pan-Continental Championships -- B-Division

SKIP
Yu
Han

Third
Meini
Wang

Second
Linyuan
Tian

Lead
Jiaxin
Yu

Yu Han (Beijing, CHN) won 11-3 over Cristine Hall (Kingston, JAM) in the Final Han advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Pan-Continental Championships -- B-Division, held October 29 - November 4, 2023 in Kelowna, British Columbia.

Han finished 5-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Han defeated Ling-Yue Hung (Hong Kong, HKG) 10-3, then won 14-0 against Anne Shibuya (Sao Paolo, BRA) and 13-0 against Laventer Oguta (Nairobi, KEN). Han won 18-1 against Donna Umali (Manilla, PHI), then won 12-2 against Hall in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pan-Continental Championships -- B-Division Championship title, Han earned 3.750 world rankings points. For week 15 of the event schedule, Han did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 43rd place on the World Ranking Standings with 77.930 total points. Han ranks 21st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 75.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	5	0	0.848	6-1	1-1	0-1	0-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	224	241	108	10.76	4.82	5.94	5.45	3.48	1.98	1.38	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	105	148	27	14	10-0	8-2	23-4	1.41	0.26	0.45	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	119	93	81	10	7-0	5-4	10-14	0.78	0.68	0.69	0.42

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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