CHAMPION: Kim Wins 2022 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

SKIP
Chang-Min
Kim

Third
Soo-Hyuk
Kim

Second
Jae Ik
Jeon

Lead
Hak Kyun
Kim

Changmin Kim (Uiseong, KOR) won 9-5 over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, held November 7 - 13, 2021 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. To advance to the championship game, Kim won 7-4 over Viktor Kim (Almaty, KAZ) in the semifinals of the 2022 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan;

Kim finished 5-1 in the 7-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim defeated Alastair Fyfe (Riyadh, KSA) 9-3, then went on to lose 8-2 against Morozumi. Kim responded with a 14-1 win over Nassar Alyafei (Doha, QAT). Kim won 11-5 against Hong Kong's Jason Chang, then won 9-1 against Kim and 9-8 against Ting-Li Lin (Taiwan, TPE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships Championship title, Kim earned 12.825 world rankings points. Kim move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 3.544 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 35th overall with 92.468 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kim ranks 39th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 46.030 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	49	28	0	0.636	16-9	7-8	5-4	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	609	498	408	8.18	6.70	1.48	4.76	4.30	1.72	1.56	0.94

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	307	379	87	32	8-1	30-5	80-8	1.23	0.28	0.43	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	302	119	321	25	1-6	6-18	23-68	0.39	1.06	0.53	0.27

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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