Nakamura Finishes Fourth at 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Aomori, Japan

Fourth
Misaki
Tanaka

SKIP
Miori
Nakamura

Second
Haruka
Kihara

Lead
Hiyori
Ichinohe

Games:	6
Record:	3W - 3L
PF/G:	6.82
PA/G:	7.27
Hammer Efficiency:	0.39
Steal Defense:	0.35
Force Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Efficiency:	0.17

Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN) lost 6-0 to Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, 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; Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN) lost 6-0 to Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. Nakamura lost 7-6 to Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan;

Nakamura finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nakamura defeated Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) 6-5, then won 7-4 against Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN). Nakamura went on to lose 7-4 against Kitazawa. Nakamura responded with a 7-3 win over Suhyeon Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Nakamura take home 8.000 world rankings points, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 64th place overall with 42.688 total points. Nakamura ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	16	0	0.636	9-4	5-2	3-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	321	255	216	7.94	6.73	1.22	4.83	4.33	1.65	1.55	0.84

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	160	171	61	15	3-1	12-1	36-11	1.07	0.38	0.35	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	161	84	155	12	0-2	6-11	18-32	0.52	0.96	0.53	0.34

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2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
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2019: Yilun Jiang
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2018: Min Ji Kim
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2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
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2016: Chelsea Carey
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