Bronze for Shuster at 2022 Karuizawa International

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
John
Landsteiner

John Shuster (Duluth, MN) won 7-3 over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. of the 2022 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; John Shuster (Duluth, MN) won 7-3 over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. Shuster lost 10-3 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2022 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan;

Shuster finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shuster defeated ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) 6-4, then won 10-1 against Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN) and 7-3 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Karuizawa International, Shuster earn 10.625 world rankings points and 2009CDN. Shuster move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 8.75 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 17th overall with 162.576 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Shuster ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 115.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	47	26	0	0.644	11-8	12-7	2-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	544	473	350	8.69	6.43	2.26	4.80	4.15	1.81	1.55	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	272	353	81	30	13-1	29-3	66-16	1.30	0.30	0.45	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	272	120	269	27	2-2	9-17	21-59	0.44	0.99	0.54	0.28

2023: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker , Siyu Liu
St. John's, NL
2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Mike McEwen, Matt Wozniak, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Tetsuro Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Morozumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Aberdeen, SCO
2015: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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