Yamaguchi Finishes Fourth at Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Fourth
Riku
Yanagisawa

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 9-5 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. of the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan; Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 9-5 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. Yamaguchi lost 5-4 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan;

Yamaguchi finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yamaguchi defeated Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) 6-4, then won 8-5 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) and 7-2 against Rio Hayashi (Hokkaido, JPN). Yamaguchi won 6-2 against Hakjun Kim (Chuncheon, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Yamaguchi take home 9.200 world rankings points. For week 3 of the event schedule, Yamaguchi did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 23rd place on the World Ranking Standings with 150.713 total points. Yamaguchi ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.900 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
Edmonton, AB

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