CHAMPION: Han Wins 2020 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

Beijing, China

SKIP
Yu
Han

Third
Lijun
Zhang

Second
Xindi
Jiang

Lead
Rui Yi
Zhao

Games:	9
Record:	8W - 1L
PF/G:	13.70
PA/G:	3.84
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.79
Steal Efficiency:	0.59

Yu Han (Beijing, CHN) won 10-3 over Seina Nakajima (Nagano, JPN) in the Final of the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, held November 2 - 9, 2019 in Shenzhen, China. To advance to the championship game, Han won 8-2 over Un-Chi Gim (Gyeonggido, KOR) in the semifinals of the 2020 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in Shenzhen, China;

Han finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Han defeated Ling-Yue Hung (Hong Kong, HKG) 12-4, then won 19-1 against Mubarkah Al-Abdulla (Doha, QAT) and 7-6 against Nakajima. Han went on to lose 7-6 against Gim. Han responded with a 10-1 win over Heidi Lin (Taipei City, TPE). Han won 17-2 against Sitora Alliyarova (Almaty, KAZ), then won 11-2 against Lauren Wagner (Melbourne, AUS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships Championship title, Han earned 31.421 world rankings points. For week 16 of the event schedule, Han did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Han ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

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