Abe2-2 at 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Sapporo, Japan

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Lead
Sota
Tsuruga

Games:	4
Record:	2W - 2L
PF/G:	7.59
PA/G:	5.86
Hammer Efficiency:	0.09
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Efficiency:	0.47

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe lost 6-5 to Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR), then responded with a 7-2 win over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Abe won 5-2 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Abe went on to lose 7-5 against JaeBeom Lee (Uiseong, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

Abe earned 2.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 62nd place overall with 58.625 total points. Abe ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	21	0	0.571	8-2	5-5	3-5	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	360	312	235	8.67	6.53	2.14	4.92	3.97	1.76	1.64	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	172	231	35	23	4-1	23-1	46-6	1.34	0.20	0.49	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	188	81	200	17	3-3	5-18	10-35	0.43	1.06	0.53	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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