Shimizuno1-2 at 2017 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

SKIP
Kanya
Shimizuno

Third
Ryota
Meguro

Second
Sota
Hirosawa

Lead
Ryota
Haeno

Kanya Shimizuno (Furano, JPN) finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shimizuno lost 9-2 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN), droppimg another game, 10-2 to SooHyuk Kim (Gangwon, KOR) where Shimizuno responded with a 4-3 win over Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Shimizuno earned 0.755 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 256 spots the World Ranking Standings into 416th place overall with 0.755 total points. Shimizuno ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.755 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: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
Edmonton, AB

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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