CHAMPION: Ogasawara Wins 2015 Karuizawa International

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Ayumi
Ogasawara

Third
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Second
Kaho
Onodera

Lead
Anna
Ohmiya

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	7.19
PA/G:	5.79
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Ayumi Ogasawara (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-4 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held December 17 - 20, 2015 in Karuizawa, Japan.

Ogasawara finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ogasawara defeated Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS) 7-4, then went on to lose 7-6 against Tori Koana (Yamanashi, JPN). Ogasawara responded with a 6-4 win over Japan's Mayu Minami. Ogasawara won 4-3 against Ji Suk Kim (JeonBuk, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Ogasawara earned 39.874 world rankings points along with the $11,519CDN first prize cheque, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 17th place overall with 240.967 total points. Ogasawara ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 109.867 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2024: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Ami Enami
Nagano, JPN
2022: Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim, Kyeongae Kim, Chohi Kim, Seonyeong Kim, Yeongmi Kim, Myungsup Lim
Gangneung , KOR
2019: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Julia Portunova, Olga Kotelnikova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2018: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Julia Portunova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min-Ji Um, SeulBee Lee, Yoon-Jung Yeom, Ye eun Seol
Gyeonggi-do, KOR
2015: Ayumi Ogasawara
Ayumi Ogasawara, Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Fuji Miki
Sapporo, JPN
2014: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2013: Binia Feltscher
Binia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech
Flims, SUI

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