CHAMPION: Jiang Wins 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Beijing, China

SKIP
Yilun
Jiang

Third
Lijun
Zhang

Second
Ziqi
Dong

Lead
Xindi
Jiang

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	8.78
PA/G:	5.12
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Yilun Jiang (Beijing, CHN) won 7-2 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Jiang won 4-1 over Jie Mei (Beijing, CHN) in the semifinals of the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan;

Jiang finished 3-1 in the 10 team Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic qualifying round, held August 1 - 4, 2019 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. In their opening game, Jiang defeated Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) 5-3, then won 8-6 against Vlada Rumiantseva (Moscow, RUS). Jiang went on to lose 8-5 against Fujisawa. Jiang responded with a 7-1 win over Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic Championship title, Jiang earned 44.423 world rankings points along with the $12,502CDN first prize cheque, moving up 10 spots the World Ranking Standings into 18th place overall with 185.131 total points. Jiang ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.423 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	5	1	0	0.833	3-0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	41	36	21	8.78	5.12	3.66	5.12	3.41	1.71	1.50	1.46

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	19	23	3	4	1-0	1-0	5-1	1.21	0.16	0.47	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	22	13	18	2	0-0	2-1	1-4	0.59	0.82	0.58	0.36

2019: Yilun Jiang
Yilun Jiang, Lijun Zhang, Ziqi Dong, Xindi Jiang
Beijing, CHN
2018: Min Ji Kim
Min Ji Kim, Hye Rin Kim, Tae I Yang, Sujin Kim
chuncheon city, KOR
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Amy Nixon, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters
Calgary, CAN

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