Kim Finishes Fourth at 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Seoul, Korea

SKIP
Soo-Hyuk
Kim

Third
JeongJae
Lee

Second
ByeongJin
Jeong

Lead
Hyeonjun
Hwang

Games:	6
Record:	3W - 3L
PF/G:	6.00
PA/G:	7.78
Hammer Efficiency:	0.29
Steal Defense:	0.25
Force Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Efficiency:	0.14

SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR) lost 7-3 to Kirk Muyres (Saskatoon, SK) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. of the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan; SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR) lost 7-3 to Kirk Muyres (Saskatoon, SK) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. Kim lost 7-2 to Scott McDonald (Kingston, ON) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan;

Kim finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim defeated Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) 6-3, then won 5-3 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) and 7-6 against Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN). Kim went on to lose 9-4 against Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Kim take home 19.500 world rankings points, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 28th place overall with 118.742 total points. Kim ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 28.905 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

2025: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Hayato Sato, Haruto Ouchi
Sapporo, JPN
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

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