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2025 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup
Host cityWakkanai, Japan
ArenaWakkanai City Midori Sports Park
DatesJuly 31 – August 3
Men's winnerHokkaido Team Maeda
Curling clubTokoro CC, Kitami
SkipTakumi Maeda
SecondHiroki Maeda
LeadUryu Kamikawa
CoachRyoji Onodera & Mari Motohashi
FinalistHokkaido Kohsuke Hirata
Women's winnerHokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa
Curling clubTokoro CC, Kitami
SkipSatsuki Fujisawa
ThirdChinami Yoshida
SecondYumi Suzuki
LeadYurika Yoshida
CoachJ. D. Lind
FinalistNagano Prefecture 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]

Men

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Teams

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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 Hokkaido Sapporo
Kaito Fujii Miki Yamamoto Konosuke Takahashi Shunsuke Kanakawa Ryo Ogiwara Nagano Prefecture Karuizawa
Yuta Fuse Shogo Ishidate Koto Inaba Kento Nishida Hokkaido Wakkanai
Kohsuke Hirata Shingo Usui Koei Sato Ryota Meguro Hirofumi Kobayashi Hokkaido Kitami
Kim Hak-jun Moon Si-woo Park Jin-hwan Park Jong-hyeon Kim Myeong-jun South Korea Uiseong
Takumi Maeda –[a] Hiroki Maeda Uryu Kamikawa Hokkaido Tokoro
Takuma Makanae Kantaro Kawano Masaki Kudo Taiki Nihira Keisuke Akutagawa Hokkaido Sapporo
Shunta Kobayashi[b] Kouki Ogiwara Taiki Kudo Yuto Abe Hinata Michitani Hokkaido Sapporo
P. N. Raju Girithar Anthay Sudheer Reedy Kishan Vasant India Hyderabad
Riku Yanagisawa (Fourth) Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Skip)[c] Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi Nagano Prefecture Karuizawa

Round robin standings

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Final Round Robin Standings[6]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L W–L PF PA DSC
Nagano Prefecture Team Yanagisawa 3 1 1–0 27 13 32.90
Hokkaido Takumi Maeda 3 1 0–1 28 15 44.60
Hokkaido Team Ogiwara 2 2 – 20 20 69.50
Hokkaido Yuta Fuse 1 3 1–0 17 29 46.20
India P. N. Raju 1 3 0–1 11 26 120.60
Pool B W L W–L PF PA DSC
Hokkaido Shinya Abe 4 0 – 27 14 42.70
Hokkaido Kohsuke Hirata 3 1 – 28 17 26.90
Nagano Prefecture Kaito Fujii 2 2 – 22 16 33.50
Hokkaido Takuma Makanae 1 3 – 17 24 29.30
South Korea Kim Hak-jun 0 4 – 11 34 23.30

Round robin results

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All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[7][8]

Draw 1

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Thursday, July 31, 10:30 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Kaito Fujii 0 2 0 0 4 1 1 X 8
Hokkaido Takuma Makanae (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 3
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Team Ogiwara 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 X 5
Hokkaido Takumi Maeda (has hammer) 0 2 1 0 3 1 0 X 7
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
India P. N. Raju 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 4
Hokkaido Yuta Fuse (has hammer) 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 7
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
South Korea Kim Hak-jun (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 0 0 X X 2
Hokkaido Shinya Abe 0 2 0 3 1 4 X X 10

Draw 3

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Thursday, July 31, 6:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Yuta Fuse (has hammer) 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 5
Hokkaido Team Ogiwara 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 7
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Takuma Makanae 0 0 2 0 2 2 1 X 7
South Korea Kim Hak-jun (has hammer) 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Shinya Abe 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 5
Hokkaido Kohsuke Hirata (has hammer) 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Team Yanagisawa 1 0 3 0 3 1 X X 8
India P. N. Raju (has hammer) 0 1 0 1 0 0 X X 2

Draw 5

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Friday, August 1, 12:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Kohsuke Hirata (has hammer) 3 0 0 6 0 3 X X 12
South Korea Kim Hak-jun 0 1 1 0 2 0 X X 4
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Shinya Abe 0 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 6
Nagano Prefecture Kaito Fujii (has hammer) 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 5
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Hokkaido Team Ogiwara (has hammer) 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 5
Nagano Prefecture Team Yanagisawa 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Takumi Maeda 0 3 0 0 2 0 4 X 9
Hokkaido Yuta Fuse (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 3

Draw 7

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Friday, August 1, 7:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Takumi Maeda (has hammer) 0 2 1 2 0 2 1 X 8
India P. N. Raju 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Yuta Fuse 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 2
Nagano Prefecture Team Yanagisawa (has hammer) 1 1 0 2 1 0 4 X 9
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
South Korea Kim Hak-jun 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 2
Nagano Prefecture Kaito Fujii (has hammer) 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 X 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Kohsuke Hirata (has hammer) 1 0 2 0 3 0 1 X 7
Hokkaido Takuma Makanae 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 X 4

Draw 9

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Saturday, August 2, 12:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Takuma Makanae (has hammer) 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 X 3
Hokkaido Shinya Abe 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 X 6
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Kaito Fujii (has hammer) 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 4
Hokkaido Kohsuke Hirata 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 5
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Team Yanagisawa (has hammer) 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 6
Hokkaido Takumi Maeda 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
India P. N. Raju (has hammer) 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 4
Hokkaido Team Ogiwara 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 3

Playoffs

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Source:[9]

Semifinals Final
      
A1 Nagano Prefecture Team Yanagisawa 4
B2 Hokkaido Kohsuke Hirata 6
B2 Hokkaido Kohsuke Hirata 1
A2 Hokkaido Takumi Maeda 5
B1 Hokkaido Shinya Abe 3
A2 Hokkaido Takumi Maeda 4 Third place game
A1 Nagano Prefecture Team Yanagisawa 8
B1 Hokkaido Shinya Abe 3

Semifinals

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Sunday, August 3, 9:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Team Yanagisawa 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 4
Hokkaido Kohsuke Hirata (has hammer) 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Shinya Abe 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3
Hokkaido Takumi Maeda (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 4

Third place game

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Sunday, August 3, 12:30 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Team Yanagisawa (has hammer) 0 4 1 0 2 0 1 X 8
Hokkaido Shinya Abe 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 3

Final

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Sunday, August 3, 4:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Kohsuke Hirata 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1
Hokkaido Takumi Maeda (has hammer) 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 X 5

Women

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Teams

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The teams are listed as follows:[5][10]

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Hokkaido Kitami
Kang Bo-bae Shim Yu-jeong Kim Min-seo Kim Ji-soo Lee Bo-young South Korea Jeonbuk
Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Ami Enami Nagano Prefecture Nagano
Yuina Miura Kohane Tsuruga Rin Suzuki Hana Ikeda Aone Nakamura Hokkaido Sapporo
Momoha Tabata (Fourth) Miku Nihira (Skip) Sae Yamamoto Mikoto Nakajima Hokkaido Sapporo
Honoka Sasaki Yako Matsuzawa Hazuki Kimura Kaho Tamekuni Hokkaido Kitami
Misaki Tanaka Miori Nakamura Hiyori Ichinohe Yuna Harada Aomori Prefecture Aomori
Miyu Ueno Yui Ueno –[d] Asuka Kanai Nagano Prefecture Karuizawa
Hinako Sonobe (Fourth) Aoi Watanabe (Skip) Mao Ishigaki Mizuki Hara Yui Ozeki Tokyo Tokyo
Sayaka Yoshimura Kaho Onodera Yuna Kotani Anna Ohmiya Mina Kobayashi Hokkaido Sapporo

Round robin standings

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Final Round Robin Standings[11]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L W–L PF PA DSC
Hokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa 4 0 – 23 13 35.80
Nagano Prefecture Miyu Ueno 3 1 – 20 19 49.20
Hokkaido Miku Nihira 2 2 – 22 20 43.90
Hokkaido Yuina Miura 1 3 – 18 23 44.70
Tokyo Aoi Watanabe 0 4 – 18 26 74.00
Pool B W L W–L PF PA DSC
South Korea Kang Bo-bae 4 0 – 31 10 16.40
Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa 2 2 1–0 23 19 42.80
Hokkaido Sayaka Yoshimura 2 2 0–1 18 19 42.80
Aomori Prefecture Misaki Tanaka 1 3 1–0 17 25 83.60
Hokkaido Honoka Sasaki 1 3 0–1 11 27 48.90

Round robin results

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All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[7][12]

Draw 2

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Thursday, July 31, 2:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa 1 0 2 2 4 2 X X 11
Aomori Prefecture Misaki Tanaka (has hammer) 0 1 0 0 0 0 X X 1
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 X 5
Hokkaido Miku Nihira (has hammer) 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Yuina Miura 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 4
Nagano Prefecture Miyu Ueno (has hammer) 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 2 7
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Sayaka Yoshimura 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1
South Korea Kang Bo-bae (has hammer) 0 1 1 3 0 3 X X 8

Draw 4

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Friday, August 1, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Miyu Ueno (has hammer) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 1
Hokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 X 6
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Aomori Prefecture Misaki Tanaka 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 X 3
Hokkaido Sayaka Yoshimura (has hammer) 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 X 6
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
South Korea Kang Bo-bae 2 2 1 0 2 1 X X 8
Hokkaido Honoka Sasaki (has hammer) 0 0 0 2 0 0 X X 2
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Tokyo Aoi Watanabe 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 X 3
Hokkaido Yuina Miura (has hammer) 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 X 6

Draw 6

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Friday, August 1, 4:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Honoka Sasaki 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 2
Hokkaido Sayaka Yoshimura (has hammer) 1 1 0 2 0 2 1 X 7
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
South Korea Kang Bo-bae (has hammer) 0 2 0 1 1 0 4 X 8
Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 2
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa (has hammer) 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 X 6
Tokyo Aoi Watanabe 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 X 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Miku Nihira 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 4
Nagano Prefecture Miyu Ueno (has hammer) 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 6

Draw 8

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Saturday, August 2, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Miku Nihira 0 1 0 2 0 3 1 X 7
Hokkaido Yuina Miura (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 X 3
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Miyu Ueno 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 6
Tokyo Aoi Watanabe (has hammer) 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 5
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Sayaka Yoshimura 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 4
Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Honoka Sasaki (has hammer) 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1
Aomori Prefecture Misaki Tanaka 0 4 1 2 0 1 X X 8

Draw 10

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Saturday, August 2, 4:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Aomori Prefecture Misaki Tanaka 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 X 5
South Korea Kang Bo-bae (has hammer) 1 1 0 1 1 0 3 X 7
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Yuina Miura 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 5
Hokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa (has hammer) 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 6
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Tokyo Aoi Watanabe 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 6
Hokkaido Miku Nihira (has hammer) 1 0 0 2 0 1 2 2 8
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa (has hammer) 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 4
Hokkaido Honoka Sasaki 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 6

Playoffs

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Source:[13]

Semifinals Final
      
A1 Hokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa 8
B2 Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa 3
A1 Hokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa 8
A2 Nagano Prefecture Miyu Ueno 3
B1 South Korea Kang Bo-bae 4
A2 Nagano Prefecture Miyu Ueno 6 Third place game
B2 Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa 4
B1 South Korea Kang Bo-bae 8

Semifinals

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Sunday, August 3, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa (has hammer) 0 2 0 1 2 0 3 X 8
Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
South Korea Kang Bo-bae 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 X 4
Nagano Prefecture Miyu Ueno (has hammer) 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 X 6

Third place game

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Sunday, August 3, 12:30 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 4
South Korea Kang Bo-bae 0 2 0 2 3 0 1 X 8

Final

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Sunday, August 3, 4:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hokkaido Satsuki Fujisawa 0 2 0 3 1 0 2 X 8
Nagano Prefecture Miyu Ueno (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 3

Notes

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  1. ^ Team Maeda played with three players.
  2. ^ Shunta Kobayashi skipped Team Ogiwara.
  3. ^ Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi skipped Team Yanagisawa.
  4. ^ Team Ueno played with three players.

References

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  1. ^ "Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup 2025". Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  2. ^ "Men's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  3. ^ "Women's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  4. ^ "Men's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Teams List". Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  6. ^ "Men's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Schedule". Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  8. ^ "Men's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  9. ^ "Men's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  10. ^ "Women's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  11. ^ "Women's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  12. ^ "Women's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  13. ^ "Women's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
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