CHAMPION: Nakamura Wins New Year Curling in Miyota 2024

Fourth
Misaki
Tanaka

SKIP
Miori
Nakamura

Second
Haruka
Kihara

Lead
Yuuna
Harada

Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN) won 6-3 over Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the New Year Curling in Miyota 2024, held December 29 - January 1 at the Miyota Curling Club in Miyota, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Nakamura won 8-3 over Yui Ozeki (Tokyo, JPN) in the semifinals

Nakamura finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nakamura defeated Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR) 10-5, then won 9-3 against Kotoka Segawa (Morioka, JPN) and 6-2 against Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN). Nakamura won 7-6 against Yumi Suzuki (Tokyo , JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the New Year Curling in Miyota 2024 Championship title, Nakamura earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $9,255CDN first prize cheque. Nakamura move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 14.414 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 38th overall with 85.047 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Nakamura ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 76.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	16	0	0.636	9-4	5-2	3-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	321	255	216	7.94	6.73	1.22	4.83	4.33	1.65	1.55	0.84

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	160	171	61	15	3-1	12-1	36-11	1.07	0.38	0.35	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	161	84	155	12	0-2	6-11	18-32	0.52	0.96	0.53	0.34

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