CHAMPION: Fujisawa Wins 2017 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

SKIP
Satsuki
Fujisawa

Third
Chinami
Yoshida

Second
Yumi
Suzuki

Lead
Yurika
Yoshida

Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) won 7-3 over Min Ji Kim (Gyeongido, KOR) in the Final of the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, held August 3 - 6, 2017 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan.

Fujisawa finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fujisawa defeated Tori Koana (Yamanashi, JPN) 7-2, then won 11-3 against Chiaki Matsumura (Karuizawa, JPN) and 5-3 against Kim in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic Championship title, Fujisawa earned 19.032 world rankings points along with the $11,427CDN first prize cheque, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 28th place overall with 136.227 total points. Fujisawa ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 19.032 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: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yilun Jiang
Yilun Jiang, Lijun Zhang, Ziqi Dong, Xindi Jiang
Beijing, CHN
2018: Min Ji Kim
Min Ji Kim, Hyerin Kim, Taei Yang, Sujin Kim
chuncheon city, KOR
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Amy Nixon, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters
Calgary, CAN

Gyeonggi's Team Gim Eun-ji (Photo: Olympics) will represent Korea for a third straight season at the international level.

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