Bronze for Okamoto at 2024 Nishi-Nihon Curling Championship

SKIP
Mitsuaki
Okamoto

Third
Toshikazu
Arima

Second
Tomoki
Hiyama

Lead
Yasuhiro
Koshino

Mitsuaki Okamoto (Okayama, JPN) won 11-4 over Ryo Shioya (Okayama, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Nishi-Nihon Curling Championship in Okayama, Japan. of the 2024 Nishi-Nihon Curling Championship in Okayama, Japan; Mitsuaki Okamoto (Okayama, JPN) won 11-4 over Ryo Shioya (Okayama, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Nishi-Nihon Curling Championship in Okayama, Japan. Okamoto lost 7-1 to Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2024 Nishi-Nihon Curling Championship in Okayama, Japan;

Okamoto finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Okamoto lost 8-4 to Shioya, then responded with a 7-1 win over Takuma Shimoji (Okayama, JPN). Okamoto won 3-1 against Masatoshi Fukuoka (Okayama, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Nishi-Nihon Curling Championship, Okamoto earn 2.125 world rankings points. For week 19 of the event schedule, Okamoto did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Okamoto ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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