2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup
Curling competition at Wakkanai, Japan
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The 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup was held from August 8 to 11 at the Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park in Wakkanai, Japan.[1] It was the third tour event of the 2024–25 curling season and the first event of the Hokkaido Curling Tour. The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,700,000 on both the men's and women's sides.[2][3]
| 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup | |
|---|---|
| Host city | Wakkanai, Japan |
| Arena | Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park |
| Dates | August 8–11 |
| Men's winner |  Team Abe |
| Curling club | Tokoro CC, Tokoro, Hokkaido |
| Skip | Shinya Abe |
| Fourth | Tetsuro Shimizu |
| Second | Haruto Ouchi |
| Lead | Hayato Sato |
| Alternate | Sota Tsuruga |
| Coach | Makoto Tsuruga |
| Finalist | Takumi Maeda |
| Women's winner |  Team Kitazawa |
| Curling club | Karuizawa CC, Karuizawa |
| Skip | Ikue Kitazawa |
| Third | Seina Nakajima |
| Second | Ami Enami |
| Lead | Minori Suzuki |
| Alternate | Hasumi Ishigooka |
| Coach | Yusuke Morozumi |
| Finalist | Sayaka Yoshimura |
« 2023 2025 » | |
Men
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:[4][5]
| Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Locale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) | Shinya Abe (Skip) | Haruto Ouchi | Hayato Sato | Sota Tsuruga | Sapporo |
| Kaito Fujii | Miki Yamamoto | Konosuke Takahashi | Shunsuke Kanakawa | Taiji Tozawa | Karuizawa |
| Kohsuke Hirata | Shingo Usui | Ryota Meguro | Yoshiya Miura | Kitami | |
| Toshiya Ilda | Yuta Fuse | Koto Inaba | Kento Nishida | Wakkanai | |
| Kim Hak-jun | Park Jin-hwan | Park Jong-hyeon | Kim Myeong-jun |  Uiseong | |
| Takumi Maeda | Asei Nakahara | Hiroki Maeda | Uryu Kamikawa | Ryoji Onodera | Tokoro |
| Yusuke Morozumi | Yuta Matsumura | Ryotaro Shukuya | Masaki Iwai | Kosuke Morozumi | Karuizawa |
| Taia Nakahara | Yota Michitani | Shunta Kobayashi | Taiki Kudo | Sasaki Ayato | Kitami |
| Kouki Ogiwara | Yousuke Abe | Yuto Abe | Yuta Kimura | Yuki Ohno | Sapporo |
| Riku Yanagisawa | Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi | Takeru Yamamoto | Satoshi Koizumi | Karuizawa |
Round robin standings
Final Round Robin Standings[6]
| Key | |
|---|---|
| Teams to Playoffs | |
|
|
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[7][8]
Draw 1
Thursday, August 8, 10:30 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kohsuke Hirata 🔨 |
2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | 8 |
| Taia Nakahara |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Shinya Abe |
0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Takumi Maeda 🔨 |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Riku Yanagisawa 🔨 |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | X | 8 |
| Kouki Ogiwara |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 0 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yusuke Morozumi |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Kaito Fujii 🔨 |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Draw 3
Thursday, August 8, 6:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kouki Ogiwara |
0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Shinya Abe 🔨 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Taia Nakahara |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 2 |
| Yusuke Morozumi 🔨 |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | X | 5 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kaito Fujii 🔨 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Toshiya Ilda |
0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kim Hak-jun |
0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Riku Yanagisawa 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
Draw 5
Friday, August 9, 12:30 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Toshiya Ilda |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 5 |
| Yusuke Morozumi 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | X | 9 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kaito Fujii |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kohsuke Hirata 🔨 |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Shinya Abe 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | X | 9 |
| Kim Hak-jun |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Takumi Maeda |
0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | X | 8 |
| Kouki Ogiwara 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
Draw 7
Friday, August 9, 7:30 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Takumi Maeda 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Riku Yanagisawa |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kouki Ogiwara |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Kim Hak-jun 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | X | 11 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yusuke Morozumi |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| Kohsuke Hirata 🔨 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Toshiya Ilda 🔨 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Taia Nakahara |
0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Draw 9
Saturday, August 10, 12:30 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Taia Nakahara |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kaito Fujii 🔨 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Riku Yanagisawa 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 5 |
| Shinya Abe |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | X | 8 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kim Hak-jun |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | X | 2 |
| Takumi Maeda 🔨 |
3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | X | X | 12 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kohsuke Hirata 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 6 |
| Toshiya Ilda |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 1 |
Playoffs
Source:[9]
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| A1 | Shinya Abe
| 4 | |||||||
| B2 | Kohsuke Hirata
| 3 | |||||||
| A1 | Shinya Abe
| 5 | |||||||
| A2 | Takumi Maeda
| 4 | |||||||
| B1 | Yusuke Morozumi
| 3 | |||||||
| A2 | Takumi Maeda
| 4 | Third place game | ||||||
| B2 | Kohsuke Hirata
| 5 | |||||||
| B1 | Yusuke Morozumi
| 4 | |||||||
Semifinals
Sunday, August 11, 9:00 am
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Shinya Abe |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Kohsuke Hirata 🔨 |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yusuke Morozumi 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Takumi Maeda |
0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Third place game
Sunday, August 11, 12:30 pm
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Final |
| Kohsuke Hirata 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Yusuke Morozumi |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Final
Sunday, August 11, 4:00 pm
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Final |
| Shinya Abe 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Takumi Maeda |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Women
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:[5][10]
| Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Locale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miyuki Kawamura | Maoko Kawahira | Lin En | Yukie Kitaguchi | Obihiro | |
| Ikue Kitazawa | Seina Nakajima | Ami Enami | Minori Suzuki | Hasumi Ishigooka | Nagano |
| Mayu Minami | Kana Ogawa | Mizuki Saito | Moe Nomoto | Sapporo | |
| Yuina Miura | Ai Matsunaga | Yuna Sakuma | Hana Ikeda | Ryone Yasui | Nayoro |
| Misaki Tanaka (Fourth) | Miori Nakamura (Skip) | Haruka Kihara | Hiyori Ichinohe |  Aomori | |
| Mika Okuyama | Miyuki Kawamura | Tomoko Takeda | Chihiro Matsumoto | Wakkanai | |
| Eri Ogihara (Fourth) | Honoka Sasaki (Skip) | Miki Hayashi | Yako Matsuzawa | Kitami | |
| Momoha Tabata (Fourth) | Miku Nihira (Skip) | Sae Yamamoto | Mikoto Nakajima | Ayami Ito | Sapporo |
| Kohane Tsuruga | Aone Nakamura | Rin Suzuki | Kotoka Segawa | Sapporo | |
| Sayaka Yoshimura | Yuna Kotani | Kaho Onodera | Anna Ohmiya | Mina Kobayashi | Sapporo |
Round robin standings
Final Round Robin Standings[11]
| Key | |
|---|---|
| Teams to Playoffs | |
|
|
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[12][8]
Draw 2
Thursday, August 8, 2:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Honoka Sasaki |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Team Tabata 🔨 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | X | 5 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Mayu Minami 🔨 |
3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 9 |
| Mika Okuyama |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miori Nakamura |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Kohane Tsuruga 🔨 |
2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | X | 8 |
| Yuina Miura 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 |
Draw 4
Friday, August 9, 9:00 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kohane Tsuruga |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Mayu Minami 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 8 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Tabata 🔨 |
0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 4 |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | X | 7 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yuina Miura |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Miyuki Kawamura 🔨 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 2 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Sayaka Yoshimura 🔨 |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | 6 |
| Miori Nakamura |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 2 |
Draw 6
Friday, August 9, 4:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miyuki Kawamura |
0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 5 |
| Ikue Kitazawa 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | X | 12 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yuina Miura |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Honoka Sasaki 🔨 |
0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Mayu Minami |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | X | 2 |
| Sayaka Yoshimura 🔨 |
5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 8 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Final |
| Mika Okuyama |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Kohane Tsuruga 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Draw 8
Saturday, August 10, 9:00 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Mika Okuyama 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | X | 10 |
| Miori Nakamura |
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kohane Tsuruga |
0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | X | 6 |
| Sayaka Yoshimura 🔨 |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | X | 9 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Ikue Kitazawa 🔨 |
2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 10 |
| Honoka Sasaki |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | X | X | 2 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miyuki Kawamura 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Team Tabata |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | X | 6 |
Draw 10
Saturday, August 10, 4:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Sayaka Yoshimura |
0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | X | 7 |
| Mika Okuyama 🔨 |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 4 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Honoka Sasaki |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | X | 5 |
| Miyuki Kawamura 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Tabata |
0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Yuina Miura 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miori Nakamura |
0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Mayu Minami 🔨 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Playoffs
Source:[13]
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| A1 | Sayaka Yoshimura
| 5 | |||||||
| B2 | Team Tabata
| 4 | |||||||
| A1 | Sayaka Yoshimura
| 4 | |||||||
| B1 | Ikue Kitazawa
| 5 | |||||||
| B1 | Ikue Kitazawa
| 7 | |||||||
| A2 | Mayu Minami
| 4 | Third place game | ||||||
| B2 | Team Tabata
| 6 | |||||||
| A2 | Mayu Minami
| 5 | |||||||
Semifinals
Sunday, August 11, 9:00 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Sayaka Yoshimura |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Team Tabata 🔨 |
2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Mayu Minami 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Third place game
Sunday, August 11, 12:30 pm
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Tabata 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Mayu Minami |
0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Final
Sunday, August 11, 4:00 pm
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Sayaka Yoshimura 🔨 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |