Kim Runner-Up at 2023 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Eunjung
Kim

Third
Kyeongae
Kim

Second
Chohi
Kim

Lead
Seonyeong
Kim

Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR) lost 7-6 to Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held December 1 - 3, 2023 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Kim won 6-2 over Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals

Kim finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim defeated Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) 11-2, then won 8-2 against Kitazawa and 6-3 against Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Karuizawa International, Kim take home 24.750 world rankings points along with the $3,670CDN prize. Kim move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 9.954 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 11th overall with 214.641 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kim ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 170.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	72	26	0	0.735	24-6	8-5	5-5	1-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	752	643	402	8.55	5.35	3.20	4.77	3.78	1.79	1.42	1.45

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	372	458	88	55	20-0	30-2	91-13	1.23	0.24	0.44	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	380	185	314	54	7-2	10-20	28-55	0.49	0.83	0.64	0.30

2024: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Ami Enami
Nagano, JPN
2022: Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim, Kyeongae Kim, Chohi Kim, Seonyeong Kim, Yeongmi Kim, Myungsup Lim
Gangneung , KOR
2019: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Julia Portunova, Olga Kotelnikova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2018: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Julia Portunova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min-Ji Um, SeulBee Lee, Yoon-Jung Yeom, Ye eun Seol
Gyeonggi-do, KOR
2015: Ayumi Ogasawara
Ayumi Ogasawara, Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Fuji Miki
Sapporo, JPN
2014: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2013: Binia Feltscher
Binia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech
Flims, SUI

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