Kim2-9 at 2016 World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Soo-Hyuk
Kim

Third
Taehwan
Kim

Second
Jongduk
Park

Lead
Yoonho
Nam

SooHyuk Kim (Gangwon, KOR) finished 2-9 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim lost 9-3 to Tom Brewster (Aberdeen, SCO), droppimg another game, 9-8 to Alexey Tselousov (Moscow, RUS). Kim lost 9-6 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Kim lost 12-4 to Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI). Kim lost 6-4 to Aku Kauste (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Kim lost 6-3 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) where Kim responded with a 8-5 win over Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN). Kim went on to lose 9-2 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, CAN). Kim lost 7-4 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Kim lost 8-6 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA) where Kim responded with a 9-6 win over Alexander Baumann (Fuessen, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

Kim earned 5.287 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Kim move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 2.605 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 29th overall with 160.906 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kim ranks 25th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 131.717 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

Sweden's Niklas Edin (photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) is set to begin the Olympic season in Baden, Switzerland, at the Baden Masters.

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