Sato Finishes Fourth at 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Sapporo, Japan

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Hayato
Sato

Second
Koki
Ogiwara

Lead
Kazushi
Niino

Games:	6
Record:	2W - 4L
PF/G:	5.22
PA/G:	7.61
Hammer Efficiency:	0.20
Steal Defense:	0.31
Force Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Efficiency:	0.25

Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) lost 7-3 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. of the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan; Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) lost 7-3 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. Sato lost 6-3 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Sato finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sato lost 8-1 to Yanagisawa, then responded with a 7-3 win over Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN). Sato won 6-5 against ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR). Sato went on to lose 6-4 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Sato take home 12.000 world rankings points, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 43rd place overall with 78.250 total points. Sato ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	27	0	0.481	6-3	3-12	2-3	0-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	391	259	277	6.62	7.08	-0.46	4.09	4.22	1.62	1.68	1.69

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	190	196	69	31	2-2	15-5	43-10	1.03	0.36	0.38	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	201	63	208	35	3-3	2-18	6-40	0.31	1.03	0.50	0.22

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
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2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
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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
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