Yoshimura Finishes Fourth at 2023 Karuizawa International

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Yuna
Kotani

Second
Kaho
Onodera

Lead
Anna
Ohmiya

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	6.94
PA/G:	7.22
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.46
Steal Efficiency:	0.16

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) lost 7-4 to Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg , MB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan. of the 2023 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan; Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) lost 7-4 to Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg , MB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan. Yoshimura lost 6-2 to Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Yoshimura finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Youbeen Park (Seoul, KOR) 9-4, then went on to lose 6-4 against Lawes. Yoshimura responded with a 6-3 win over Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Karuizawa International, Yoshimura take home 13.500 world rankings points along with 917CDN. Yoshimura move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of -0.58599999999998 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 160.508 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yoshimura ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 113.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	61	22	0	0.735	20-4	14-4	4-3	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	596	539	331	9.04	5.55	3.49	5.17	3.76	1.75	1.48	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	265	342	66	30	10-1	23-2	76-9	1.29	0.25	0.46	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	331	197	265	34	5-2	15-12	26-61	0.60	0.80	0.57	0.37

2024: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Ami Enami
Nagano, JPN
2022: Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim, Kyeongae Kim, Chohi Kim, Seonyeong Kim, Yeongmi Kim, Myungsup Lim
Gangneung , KOR
2019: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Julia Portunova, Olga Kotelnikova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2018: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Julia Portunova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min-Ji Um, SeulBee Lee, Yoon-Jung Yeom, Ye eun Seol
Gyeonggi-do, KOR
2015: Ayumi Ogasawara
Ayumi Ogasawara, Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Fuji Miki
Sapporo, JPN
2014: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2013: Binia Feltscher
Binia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech
Flims, SUI

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