CHAMPION: Gim Wins 2016 Karuizawa International

Gyeonggi-do, Korea

SKIP
Un-Chi
Gim

Third
Min-Ji
Um

Second
Seul-Bee
Lee

Lead
Yoon-Jung
Yeom

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	10.00
PA/G:	4.42
Hammer Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Defense:	0.14
Force Efficiency:	0.77
Steal Efficiency:	0.27

Un-Chi Gim (Gyeonggi-do, KOR) won 7-4 over Margaretha Sigfridsson (Skelleftea, SWE) in the Final of the 2016 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan.

Gim finished 4-0 in the 15 team Karuizawa International qualifying round, held December 15 - 18, 2016 in , . In their opening game, Gim defeated Lene Nielsen (Hvidovre, DEN) 5-3, then won 10-3 against Ami Enami (Karuizawa, JPN) and 10-3 against Tori Koana (Yamanashi, JPN). Gim won 7-4 against Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Gim earned 41.773 world rankings points along with the $11,311CDN first prize cheque, moving up 11 spots the World Ranking Standings into 31st place overall with 178.811 total points. Gim ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 106.857 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2017	6	0	0	1.000	4-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2017	43	43	19	10.00	4.42	5.58	5.35	3.72	1.87	1.19	0.93

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2017	21	35	3	1	1-0	5-0	5-0	1.67	0.14	0.55	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2017	22	8	16	3	0-0	0-0	2-3	0.36	0.73	0.77	0.27

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