CHAMPION: Takahashi Wins Chubu Curling Championships

SKIP
Kounosuke
Takahashi

Third
Miki
Yamamoto

Second
Syunsuke
Kanagawa

Lead
Tasumi
Tozawa

Kounosuke Takahashi (Nagano, JPN) won 8-2 over Kaito Fujii (Miyota, JPN) in the Final of the Chubu Curling Championships, held December 14 - 17 in Chubu, Japan.

Takahashi finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Takahashi defeated Katsuyuki Ohara (Chubu, JPN) 10-1, then won 7-6 against Hitoshi Ishihara (Chubu, JPN) and 5-3 against Tamotsu Matsumura (Chubu, JPN). Takahashi won 10-4 against Takashi Kawahara (Chubu, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Chubu Curling Championships Championship title, Takahashi earned 3.750 world rankings points, moving up 166 spots the World Ranking Standings into 261st place overall with 4.641 total points. Takahashi ranks 219th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	11	8	0	0.579	8-3	3-4	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	144	101	85	7.01	5.90	1.11	4.17	3.61	1.68	1.63	2.22

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	72	65	26	18	2-1	7-0	10-3	0.90	0.36	0.35	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	72	36	59	14	0-2	2-4	6-11	0.50	0.82	0.47	0.36

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