CHAMPION: Gim Wins 2024 Pan-Continental Championships

SKIP
Eun ji
Gim

Third
Min Ji
Kim

Second
Su ji
Kim

Lead
Ye eun
Seol

Eun ji Gim (Gyeonggido, KOR) won 11-6 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the Pan-Continental Championships, held October 29 - November 4, 2023 in Kelowna, British Columbia. To advance to the championship game, Gim won 8-4 over Kerri Einarson (Gimli, CAN) in the semifinals

Gim finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gim defeated Adriana Camarena (Mexico City, MEX) 10-1, then won 15-2 against Jessica Smith (Nasbey, NZL). Gim went on to lose 9-8 against Tabitha Peterson (St. Paul, USA). Gim responded with a 9-2 win over Australia's Jennifer Westhagen. Gim won 8-2 against Fujisawa, then won 9-8 against Einarson and 10-3 against Cynthia Lu (Taipei City, TPE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pan-Continental Championships Championship title, Gim earned 48.750 world rankings points. Gim move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 27.75 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 3rd overall with 351.016 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Gim ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 157.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	95	29	0	0.766	31-8	10-6	9-9	3-1	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	984	827	524	8.40	5.33	3.08	4.87	3.76	1.73	1.42	1.37

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	480	594	98	67	14-0	43-3	132-11	1.24	0.20	0.46	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	504	233	426	68	8-2	13-16	35-99	0.46	0.85	0.60	0.29

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