CHAMPION: Kim Wins 2025 Gangneung Invitational 2025

SKIP
Eunjung
Kim

Third
Kyeongae
Kim

Second
Chohi
Kim

Lead
Seonyeong
Kim

Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR) won 7-4 over Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Gangneung Invitational 2025, held March 6 - 9, 2025 at the Gangneung Curling Center in Gangneung, Korea. To advance to the championship game, Kim won 8-7 over Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR) in the semifinals of the 2025 Gangneung Invitational 2025 in Gangneung, Korea; and won 7-2 over Marianne Roervik (Lillehammer, NOR) in the quarterfinals.

Kim finished 4-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim defeated Virginija Paulauskaite (Vilnius, LTU) 8-3, then won 7-6 against Tabitha Peterson (St. Paul, USA) and 9-1 against Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN). Kim won 6-5 against Bobae Kang (Jeonbuk, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Gangneung Invitational 2025 Championship title, Kim earned 41.250 world rankings points along with the $15,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 5th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 20.25 after improving upon their best so far this season. Kim ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 294.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	60	22	0	0.732	9-0	7-3	2-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	598	524	334	8.76	5.59	3.18	4.97	3.86	1.76	1.45	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	302	375	67	48	8-0	35-2	75-11	1.24	0.22	0.46	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	296	149	267	22	4-3	8-14	24-51	0.50	0.90	0.62	0.32

Gyeonggi's Team Gim Eun-ji (Photo: Olympics) will represent Korea for a third straight season at the international level.

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