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.
