Bronze for Nakajima at 2018 Karuizawa International

Fourth
Chiaki
Matsumura

Third
Ikue
Kitazawa

SKIP
Seina
Nakajima

Lead
Hasumi
Ishigooka

Seina Nakajima (Nagano, JPN) won 7-4 over Laura Walker (Edmonton, CAN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2018 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. of the 2018 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; Seina Nakajima (Nagano, JPN) won 7-4 over Laura Walker (Edmonton, CAN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2018 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. Nakajima lost 7-4 to Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2018 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; and won 9-3 over Tori Koana (Fujiyoshida, JPN) in the quarterfinals.

Nakajima finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nakajima defeated Yumi Toda (Karuizawa, JPN) 9-1, then won 6-5 against Sophie Jackson (Stirling, SCO) and 10-1 against Mayu Natsuizaka (Sapporo, JPN). Nakajima won 10-5 against Unchi Gim (Gyeonggi -do, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Karuizawa International, Nakajima earn 19.443 world rankings points and 6113CDN. Nakajima move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 17.382 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 30th overall with 132.282 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Nakajima ranks 29th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 108.922 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

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, Seul-Bee 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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