CHAMPION: Ueno Wins 2024 New Year Curling in Miyota 2025

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Miyu
Ueno

Third
Yui
Ueno

Second
Junko
Nishimuro

Lead
Asuka
Kanai

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	8.89
PA/G:	5.83
Hammer Efficiency:	0.29
Steal Defense:	0.12
Force Efficiency:	0.71
Steal Efficiency:	0.21

Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN) won 7-3 over Japan's Moka Tanaka in the Final of the New Year Curling in Miyota 2025, held December 29 - January 1, 2025 at the Miyota Curling Club in Miyota, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Ueno won 8-4 over Kate Cameron (St. Adolphe, MB) in the semifinals of the 2024 New Year Curling in Miyota 2025 in Miyota, Japan, Japan;

Ueno finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ueno defeated Japan's Moka Tanaka 5-4, then went on to lose 6-4 against Rebecca Mariani (Trentino, ITA). Ueno responded with a 8-4 win over Yui Ozeki (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the New Year Curling in Miyota 2025 Championship title, Ueno earned 11.250 world rankings points along with the $9,105CDN first prize cheque. Ueno move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of -3.391 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 20th overall with 145.531 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ueno ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 116.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	35	21	0	0.625	8-0	1-1	3-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	428	339	252	7.92	5.89	2.03	4.77	3.88	1.66	1.52	1.36

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	212	243	51	34	8-2	13-1	41-7	1.15	0.24	0.35	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	216	96	201	24	2-2	7-11	13-42	0.44	0.93	0.58	0.29

2024: Miyu Ueno
Miyu Ueno, Yui Ueno, Junko Nishimuro, Asuka Kanai , Yuji Nishimuro
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Aomori, JPN
2022: Daniela Jentsch
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