Yoshimura Reaches 2024 KIOTI National Quarters

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Yuna
Kotani

Second
Mina
Kobayashi

Lead
Anna
Ohmiya

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) qualified for the 2024 KIOTI National playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-6 against Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON). of the 2024 KIOTI National in St. John, Newfoundland / Labrador;

Yoshimura finished 2-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura lost 6-3 to Eun ji Gim (Gyeonggido, KOR), droppimg another game, 6-3 to Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) where Yoshimura responded with a 6-5 win over Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg, MB). Yoshimura won 6-4 against Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Yoshimura earned 30.000 world rankings points for their Top 7 finish in the KIOTI National. Yoshimura move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 16.25 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 15th overall with 199.750 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yoshimura ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 127.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	62	38	0	0.620	10-4	7-5	1-1	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	772	598	478	7.75	6.19	1.55	4.70	4.20	1.65	1.48	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	375	441	110	39	10-3	28-2	94-19	1.18	0.29	0.39	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	397	157	368	46	3-2	10-21	23-73	0.40	0.93	0.61	0.26

2025: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes
Ottawa, ON
2024: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes , Brendan Bottcher
Ottawa, ON
2023: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min Ji Kim, Su ji Kim, Ye eun Seol, Ye ji Seol, Dong ho Shin
Uijeongbu, KOR
2022: Silvana Tirinzoni
Alina Paetz, Silvana Tirinzoni, Carole Howald, Briar Schwaller
Aarau, SUI
2021: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, Sofia Mabergs
Sundbyberg, SWE
2019: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, Sofia Mabergs
Sundbyberg, SWE
2018: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON
2017: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Selena Njegovan, Liz Fyfe, Kristin Gordon
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON

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