Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) won 7-3 over Tanner Horgan (Winnipeg Beach, MB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Changan Ford International Curling Elite in Xining, China. of the 2019 Changan Ford International Curling Elite in Xining, China; Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) won 7-3 over Tanner Horgan (Winnipeg Beach, MB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Changan Ford International Curling Elite in Xining, China. Kim lost
7-4 to
Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Kim finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim defeated
Horgan 5-4, then won
7-5 against
van Dorp and
9-4 against
Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Kim won
7-3 against
Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN), then won
7-3 against
Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, USA) and
9-3 against
Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI). Kim went on to lose
4-1 against
Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the Changan Ford International Curling Elite, Kim earn
19.364 world rankings points and 6616CDN, moving up 3 spots the
World Ranking Standings into 30th place overall with
159.067 total points. Kim ranks 24th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
129.474 points earned so far this season.
