Kim Reaches 2018 World Mens Curling Championship Semifinals

SKIP
Chang-Min
Kim

Third
Se-Hyeon
Seong

Second
Min-Chan
Kim

Lead
Kibok
Lee

Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) run at the 2018 World Mens Curling Championship came to an end in the semifinals with a 9-8 loss to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). of the 2018 World Mens Curling Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada; Kim advanced through the quarterfinals with a 7-5 win over Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR). of the 2018 World Mens Curling Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada;

Kim finished 7-5 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim defeated Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) 7-4, then won 9-2 against Masaki Iwai (Hokkaido, JPN) and 7-5 against Rich Ruohonen (Seattle, USA). Kim went on to lose 9-4 against De Jia Zou (Harbin, CHN). Kim lost 5-4 to Edin. Kim lost 7-6 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Kim lost 12-11 to Marc Pfister (Adelboden, SUI). Kim lost 7-2 to Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) where Kim responded with a 10-6 win over Alexander Baumann (Baden-Baden, GER). Kim won 6-5 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA), then won 9-5 against Walstad and 9-4 against Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

Kim earned 38.655 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the World Mens Curling Championship. Kim move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 24.993 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 21st overall with 332.32 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kim ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 263.049 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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