Park Runner-Up at 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

SKIP
Jongduk
Park

Third
Yeongseok
Jeong

Second
Seunghoon
Oh

Lead
Jihoon
Seong

Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) lost 8-2 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, held August 3 - 6, 2023 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Park won 6-5 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan;

Park finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Park defeated Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) 6-5, then won 8-4 against JaeBeom Lee (Uiseong, KOR) and 7-6 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Park went on to lose 4-2 against Hirata in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Park take home 16.500 world rankings points along with the $4,646CDN prize, moving up 18 spots the World Ranking Standings into 49th place overall with 71.813 total points. Park ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 31.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	41	30	0	0.577	11-1	6-6	7-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	540	402	374	7.44	6.93	0.52	4.35	4.20	1.71	1.65	1.44

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	258	307	72	36	8-1	27-3	56-11	1.19	0.28	0.41	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	282	95	302	42	3-6	5-22	12-61	0.34	1.07	0.49	0.23

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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