Abe3-9 at 2024 LGT World Men's Curling Championship

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Second
Haruto
Ouchi

Lead
Sota
Tsuruga

Shinya Abe (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 3-9 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe lost 6-4 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA), droppimg another game, 9-5 to Niklas Edin (Ornskoldsvik, SWE) where Abe responded with a 8-3 win over Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL). Abe went on to lose 8-1 against Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER). Abe lost 8-6 to Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Abe lost 10-4 to Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI) where Abe responded with a 7-4 win over Magnus Ramsfjell (Trondheim, NOR). Abe won 6-5 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Abe went on to lose 7-5 against Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO). Abe lost 11-10 to Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR). Abe lost 7-5 to Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED). Abe lost 9-3 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in their final qualifying round match.

Abe earned 12.375 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Abe move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of 11.437 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 42nd overall with 79.688 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Abe ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 79.688 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	21	0	0.571	8-2	5-5	3-5	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	360	312	235	8.67	6.53	2.14	4.92	3.97	1.76	1.64	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	172	231	35	23	4-1	23-1	46-6	1.34	0.20	0.49	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	188	81	200	17	3-3	5-18	10-35	0.43	1.06	0.53	0.28

Manitoba's Kate Cameron (Photo: Curling Canada) announced on Monday that the team will look different for the new Olympic quadrennial.