2025 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup
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DatesJuly 31 – August 3
Men's winner
Team Maeda
Team Maeda| 2025 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup | |
|---|---|
| Host city | Wakkanai, Japan |
| Arena | Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park |
| Dates | July 31 – August 3 |
| Men's winner | Team Maeda |
| Curling club | Tokoro CC, Kitami |
| Skip | Takumi Maeda |
| Second | Hiroki Maeda |
| Lead | Uryu Kamikawa |
| Coach | Ryoji Onodera & Mari Motohashi |
| Finalist | Kohsuke Hirata |
| Women's winner | Satsuki Fujisawa |
| Curling club | Tokoro CC, Kitami |
| Skip | Satsuki Fujisawa |
| Third | Chinami Yoshida |
| Second | Yumi Suzuki |
| Lead | Yurika Yoshida |
| Coach | J. D. Lind |
| Finalist |  Miyu Ueno |
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The 2025 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup was held from July 31 to August 3 at the Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park in Wakkanai, Japan.[1] It was the second tour event of the 2025–26 curling season and the first event of the Hokkaido Curling Tour. The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,500,000 on both the men's and women's sides.[2][3]
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:[4][5]
| Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Locale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) | Shinya Abe (Skip) | Hayato Sato | Haruto Ouchi | Sota Tsuruga | Sapporo |
| Kaito Fujii | Miki Yamamoto | Konosuke Takahashi | Shunsuke Kanakawa | Ryo Ogiwara | Karuizawa |
| Yuta Fuse | Shogo Ishidate | Koto Inaba | Kento Nishida | Wakkanai | |
| Kohsuke Hirata | Shingo Usui | Koei Sato | Ryota Meguro | Hirofumi Kobayashi | Kitami |
| Kim Hak-jun | Moon Si-woo | Park Jin-hwan | Park Jong-hyeon | Kim Myeong-jun |  Uiseong |
| Takumi Maeda | –[a] | Hiroki Maeda | Uryu Kamikawa | Tokoro | |
| Takuma Makanae | Kantaro Kawano | Masaki Kudo | Taiki Nihira | Keisuke Akutagawa | Sapporo |
| Shunta Kobayashi[b] | Kouki Ogiwara | Taiki Kudo | Yuto Abe | Hinata Michitani | Sapporo |
| P. N. Raju | Girithar Anthay Suthakaran | Sudheer Reddy | Kishan Vasant |  Hyderabad | |
| Riku Yanagisawa (Fourth) | Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Skip)[c] | Takeru Yamamoto | Satoshi Koizumi | Karuizawa |
Round robin standings
Final Round Robin Standings[6]
| Key | |
|---|---|
| Teams to Playoffs | |
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Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[7][8]
Draw 1
Thursday, July 31, 10:30 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kaito Fujii |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | X | 8 |
Takuma Makanae  |
2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Ogiwara |
1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 5 |
| Takumi Maeda |
0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | X | 7 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| P. N. Raju |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Yuta Fuse |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kim Hak-jun |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 2 |
| Shinya Abe |
0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | X | X | 10 |
Draw 3
Thursday, July 31, 6:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yuta Fuse |
0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Team Ogiwara |
1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Takuma Makanae |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | X | 7 |
| Kim Hak-jun |
1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Shinya Abe |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Kohsuke Hirata |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Yanagisawa |
1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | X | X | 8 |
| P. N. Raju |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 2 |
Draw 5
Friday, August 1, 12:30 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kohsuke Hirata |
3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | X | X | 12 |
| Kim Hak-jun |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | X | 4 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Shinya Abe |
0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Kaito Fujii |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Final |
| Team Ogiwara |
2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Team Yanagisawa |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Takumi Maeda |
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | X | 9 |
| Yuta Fuse |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 |
Draw 7
Friday, August 1, 7:30 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Takumi Maeda |
0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | X | 8 |
| P. N. Raju |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yuta Fuse |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Team Yanagisawa |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | X | 9 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kim Hak-jun |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Kaito Fujii |
0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 5 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kohsuke Hirata |
1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | X | 7 |
| Takuma Makanae |
0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |
Draw 9
Saturday, August 2, 12:30 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Takuma Makanae |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Shinya Abe |
3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 6 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kaito Fujii |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kohsuke Hirata |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Yanagisawa |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Takumi Maeda |
0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| P. N. Raju |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Team Ogiwara |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Playoffs
Source:[9]
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| A1 | Team Yanagisawa
| 4 | |||||||
| B2 | Kohsuke Hirata
| 6 | |||||||
| B2 | Kohsuke Hirata
| 1 | |||||||
| A2 | Takumi Maeda
| 5 | |||||||
| B1 | Shinya Abe
| 3 | |||||||
| A2 | Takumi Maeda
| 4 | Third place game | ||||||
| A1 | Team Yanagisawa
| 8 | |||||||
| B1 | Shinya Abe
| 3 | |||||||
Semifinals
Sunday, August 3, 9:00 am
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Yanagisawa |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Kohsuke Hirata |
1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Shinya Abe |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Takumi Maeda |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Third place game
Sunday, August 3, 12:30 pm
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Yanagisawa |
0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | X | 8 |
| Shinya Abe |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 |
Final
Sunday, August 3, 4:00 pm
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kohsuke Hirata |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 |
| Takumi Maeda |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | X | 5 |
Women
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:[5][10]
| Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Locale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satsuki Fujisawa | Chinami Yoshida | Yumi Suzuki | Yurika Yoshida | Kitami | |
| Kang Bo-bae | Shim Yu-jeong | Kim Min-seo | Kim Ji-soo | Lee Bo-young | Jeonbuk |
| Ikue Kitazawa | Seina Nakajima | Minori Suzuki | Hasumi Ishigooka | Ami Enami | Nagano |
| Yuina Miura | Kohane Tsuruga | Rin Suzuki | Hana Ikeda | Aone Nakamura | Sapporo |
| Momoha Tabata (Fourth) | Miku Nihira (Skip) | Sae Yamamoto | Mikoto Nakajima | Sapporo | |
| Honoka Sasaki | Yako Matsuzawa | Hazuki Kimura | Kaho Tamekuni | Kitami | |
| Misaki Tanaka | Miori Nakamura | Hiyori Ichinohe | Yuna Harada |  Aomori | |
| Miyu Ueno | Yui Ueno | –[d] | Asuka Kanai | Karuizawa | |
| Hinako Sonobe (Fourth) | Aoi Watanabe (Skip) | Mao Ishigaki | Mizuki Hara | Yui Ozeki |  Tokyo |
| Sayaka Yoshimura | Kaho Onodera | Yuna Kotani | 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).[7][12]
Draw 2
Thursday, July 31, 2:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | X | X | 11 |
| Misaki Tanaka |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Satsuki Fujisawa |
0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | X | 5 |
| Miku Nihira |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yuina Miura |
0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Miyu Ueno |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Sayaka Yoshimura |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 1 |
| Kang Bo-bae |
0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | X | X | 8 |
Draw 4
Friday, August 1, 9:00 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miyu Ueno |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 1 |
| Satsuki Fujisawa |
0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | X | 6 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Misaki Tanaka |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Sayaka Yoshimura |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | X | 6 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kang Bo-bae |
2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | X | X | 8 |
| Honoka Sasaki |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 2 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Aoi Watanabe |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 3 |
| Yuina Miura |
0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | X | 6 |
Draw 6
Friday, August 1, 4:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Honoka Sasaki |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Sayaka Yoshimura |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | X | 7 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kang Bo-bae |
0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | X | 8 |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Satsuki Fujisawa |
2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 6 |
| Aoi Watanabe |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miku Nihira |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Miyu Ueno |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Draw 8
Saturday, August 2, 9:00 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miku Nihira |
0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | X | 7 |
| Yuina Miura |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miyu Ueno |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Aoi Watanabe |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Sayaka Yoshimura |
1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Honoka Sasaki |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 1 |
| Misaki Tanaka |
0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | X | X | 8 |
Draw 10
Saturday, August 2, 4:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Misaki Tanaka |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | X | 5 |
| Kang Bo-bae |
1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | X | 7 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yuina Miura |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Satsuki Fujisawa |
2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Aoi Watanabe |
0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Miku Nihira |
1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Final |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Honoka Sasaki |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
Playoffs
Source:[13]
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| A1 | Satsuki Fujisawa
| 8 | |||||||
| B2 | Ikue Kitazawa
| 3 | |||||||
| A1 | Satsuki Fujisawa
| 8 | |||||||
| A2 | Miyu Ueno
| 3 | |||||||
| B1 | Kang Bo-bae
| 4 | |||||||
| A2 | Miyu Ueno
| 6 | Third place game | ||||||
| B2 | Ikue Kitazawa
| 4 | |||||||
| B1 | Kang Bo-bae
| 8 | |||||||
Semifinals
Sunday, August 3, 9:00 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Satsuki Fujisawa |
0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | X | 8 |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kang Bo-bae |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 4 |
| Miyu Ueno |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | 6 |
Third place game
Sunday, August 3, 12:30 pm
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Ikue Kitazawa |
2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Kang Bo-bae |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | X | 8 |
Final
Sunday, August 3, 4:00 pm
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Satsuki Fujisawa |
0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | X | 8 |
| Miyu Ueno |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 |
