CHAMPION: Yoshimura Wins 2022 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Kaho
Onodera

Second
Anna
Ohmiya

Lead
Yumie
Funayama

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) won 6-5 over Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR) in the Final Yoshimura advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, held November 7 - 13, 2021 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Yoshimura finished 5-1 in the 4-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Hong Kong's Ling-Yue Hung 10-7, then won 11-3 against Angelina Ebauyer (Almaty, KAZ) and 9-5 against Kim. Yoshimura went on to lose 8-6 against Kim. Yoshimura responded with a 11-5 win over Hong Kong's Ling-Yue Hung. Yoshimura won 7-2 against Ebauyer in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships Championship title, Yoshimura earned 17.741 world rankings points, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 23rd place overall with 120.599 total points. Yoshimura ranks 70th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 19.344 points earned so far this season.