CHAMPION: Jeong Wins 2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

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ByeongJin
Jeong

Third
JeongJae
Lee

Second
MinWoo
Kim

Lead
Taehwan
Kim

ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) won 7-2 over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, held August 4 - 7, 2022 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Jeong won 8-2 over Yeong Seok Jeong (Gangwo, KOR) in the semifinals

Jeong finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jeong defeated Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) 4-3, then won 4-2 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) and 5-4 against Morozumi in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic Championship title, Jeong earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $9,498CDN first prize cheque. Jeong gained 44.261 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 59 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 59thplace overall with 44.261 total points. Jeong ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 30.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	53	30	0	0.639	6-8	8-6	3-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	613	507	426	8.27	6.95	1.32	4.62	4.21	1.79	1.65	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	319	362	103	44	13-0	31-5	56-18	1.13	0.32	0.36	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	294	145	323	28	6-10	10-25	19-56	0.49	1.10	0.50	0.28

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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