CHAMPION: Yoshimura Wins 2024 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Yuna
Kotani

Second
Kaho
Onodera

Lead
Anna
Ohmiya

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-4 over Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held December 13 - 15, 2024 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Yoshimura won 8-3 over Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) in the semifinals

Yoshimura finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Hasselborg 6-3, then won 8-1 against Selena Sturmay (Edmonton, AB). Yoshimura went on to lose 6-5 against Youbeen Park (Seoul, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Yoshimura earned 41.250 world rankings points along with the $6,535CDN first prize cheque. For week 20 of the event schedule, Yoshimura did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Yoshimura ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

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2024: Sayaka Yoshimura
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Sapporo, JPN
2023: Ikue Kitazawa
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2022: Eunjung Kim
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2019: Anna Sidorova
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2018: Anna Sidorova
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2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
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2016: Eun ji Gim
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2015: Ayumi Ogasawara
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2014: Jennifer Jones
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2013: Binia Feltscher
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