The 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic was held from August 3 to 6 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. It was the second tour event of the 2023–24 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.
In the men's final, Team Kohsuke Hirata of Kitami downed the newly crowned Korean champions Team Park Jong-duk of Gangwon 8–2. Team Hirata, with third Shingo Usui, second Ryota Meguro, lead Yoshiya Miura and alternate Kosuke Aita finished 3–1 through the round robin to qualify for the playoff round. Team Park also went 3–1 in Pool A, however, Team Hirata earned first place in the pool with a 4–2 head-to-head victory. From Pool B, the defending Japanese champions Team Riku Yanagisawa finished 3–1 while Hayato Sato also qualified at 2–2. In the semifinals, Hirata won 6–3 over Sato while Park stole a 6–5 win from Yanagisawa. The Japanese champions went on to win 7–3 in the third-place game over Sato's Sapporo University rink. Earlier in the year, Team Hirata lost the final of the 2023 national championship to Team Yanagisawa 6–2.
In the women's final, Yuna Kotani led the Sayaka Yoshimura rink to their second consecutive Hokkaido Bank title with a perfect 6–0 record. With Yoshimura on maternity leave, Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya and Mina Kobayashi each moved up the lineup a position with Yoshimura on the bench. The team went 4–0 through the round robin, topping Pool B. Ikue Kitazawa also went undefeated through Pool A to qualify for the playoffs, with Miori Nakamura and Momoha Tabata rounding out the final four. In the playoffs, Tabata's Hokkaido Bank rink upset Kitazawa's Chubu Electric rink 6–5 while Yoshimura scored two in the eighth end to win 7–6 over Nakamura. Kitazawa went on to win the third-place game 6–0 over Nakamura while Yoshimura dominated the final to win 7–2 over Tabata.
Men
Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) Haruto Ouchi Shinya Abe (Skip) Sota Tsuruga Makoto Tsuruga Sapporo, Japan Kohsuke Hirata Shingo Usui Ryota Meguro Yoshiya Miura Kosuke Aita Kitami, Japan Jeong Byeong-jin Kim Min-woo Lee Jeong-jae Kim Tae-hwan Seoul, South Korea Lee Jae-beom Kim Eun-bin Kim Hyo-jun Pyo Jeong-min Kim Jin-hun Uiseong, South Korea Takumi Maeda Asei Nakahara Hiroki Maeda Uryu Kamikawa Kitami, Japan Yusuke Morozumi Yuta Matsumura Ryotaro Shukuya Masaki Iwai Kosuke Morozumi Karuizawa, Japan Kotaro Noguchi Yuto Kamada Hiroshi Kato Yuki Yoshimura Hiromasa Yonehara Sendai, Japan Park Jong-duk Jeong Yeong-seok Oh Seung-hoon Seong Ji-hoon Lee Ki-bok Gangwon, South Korea Go Aoki (Fourth) Hayato Sato (Skip) Kouki Ogiwara Kazushi Nino Ayato Sasaki Sapporo, Japan Riku Yanagisawa Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi Karuizawa, Japan
Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Kohsuke Hirata 3 1 1–0 26 10 20.66 Park Jong-duk 3 1 0–1 23 19 59.90 Shinya Abe 2 2 – 22 17 42.20 Yusuke Morozumi 1 3 1–0 15 31 43.74 Lee Jae-beom 1 3 0–1 18 27 54.06 Pool B W L PF PA Riku Yanagisawa 3 1 – 29 13 23.50 Hayato Sato 2 2 1–1 18 22 30.44 Jeong Byeong-jin 2 2 1–1 23 17 46.43 Takumi Maeda 2 2 1–1 19 27 101.06 Kotaro Noguchi 1 3 – 17 27 69.11
Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Draw 1 Thursday, August 3, 10:30 am
Draw 3 Friday, August 4, 9:00 am
Draw 5 Friday, August 4, 4:00 pm
Draw 7 Saturday, August 5, 9:00 am
Draw 9 Saturday, August 5, 4:00 pm
Playoffs
Source:
Semifinals Sunday, August 6, 9:00 am
Third place game Sunday, August 6, 12:30 pm
Final Sunday, August 6, 4:00 pm
Women
Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Miyu Ueno (Fourth) Yui Ueno Junko Nishimuro Asuka Kanai (Skip) Mone Ryokawa Karuizawa, Japan Kim Su-hyeon Jeong Min-jae Ahn Jeong-yeon Kang Min-hyo Uiseong, South Korea Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Ami Enami Nagano, Japan Mayu Minami Kana Ogawa Mizuki Saito Moe Nomoto Mika Okuyama Sapporo, Japan Yuina Miura Ai Matsunaga Yuna Sakuma Yuna Takahashi Nayoro, Japan Misaki Tanaka (Fourth) Miori Nakamura (Skip) Haruka Kihara Hiyori Ichinohe Yuuna Harada Aomori, Japan Park You-been Lee Eun-chae Yang Seung-hee Kim Ji-yoon Seoul, South Korea Honoka Sasaki Mari Motohashi Miki Hayashi Mayumi Saito Yako Matsuzawa Kitami, Japan Momoha Tabata Miku Nihira Sae Yamamoto Mikoto Nakajima Ayami Ito Sapporo, Japan Yuna Kotani Kaho Onodera Anna Ohmiya Mina Kobayashi Sayaka Yoshimura Sapporo, Japan
Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Ikue Kitazawa 4 0 34 14 56.11 Miori Nakamura 3 1 24 19 53.27 Kim Su-hyeon 2 2 20 22 43.27 Honoka Sasaki 1 3 16 24 37.66 Mayu Minami 0 4 13 28 54.06 Pool B W L PF PA Team Yoshimura 4 0 26 16 29.97 Momoha Tabata 3 1 32 14 42.81 Asuka Kanai 2 2 15 26 52.63 Park You-been 1 3 22 25 72.80 Yuina Miura 0 4 12 26 92.00
Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Draw 2 Thursday, August 3, 2:00 pm
Draw 4 Friday, August 4, 12:30 pm
Draw 6 Friday, August 4, 7:30 pm
Draw 8 Saturday, August 5, 12:30 pm
Draw 10 Saturday, August 5, 7:30 pm
Playoffs
Source:
Semifinals Sunday, August 6, 9:00 am
Third place game Sunday, August 6, 12:30 pm
Final Sunday, August 6, 4:00 pm
Notes
References
External links Official Website Men's Event Women's Event