Yoshimura Runner-Up at 2025 Gangneung Invitational 2025

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Yuna
Kotani

Second
Kaho
Onodera

Lead
Anna
Ohmiya

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) lost 7-4 to Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR) 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, Yoshimura won 5-3 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2025 Gangneung Invitational 2025 in Gangneung, Korea; and won 7-3 over Bobae Kang (Jeonbuk, KOR) in the quarterfinals. of the 2025 Gangneung Invitational 2025 in Gangneung, Korea;

Yoshimura finished 4-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Youbeen Park (Seoul, KOR) 10-4, then won 6-4 against Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR) and 5-3 against Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR). Yoshimura won 7-6 against Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Gangneung Invitational 2025, Yoshimura take home 30.250 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN prize. Yoshimura move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 16.5 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 8th overall with 244.250 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yoshimura ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 244.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	62	38	0	0.620	10-4	7-5	1-1	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	772	598	478	7.75	6.19	1.55	4.70	4.20	1.65	1.48	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	375	441	110	39	10-3	28-2	94-19	1.18	0.29	0.39	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	397	157	368	46	3-2	10-21	23-73	0.40	0.93	0.61	0.26

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

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