The 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup was held from August 10 to 13 at the Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park in Wakkanai, Japan. It was the third tour event of the 2023–24 curling season and the second 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.
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 Kohsuke Hirata Shingo Usui Ryota Meguro Yoshiya Miura Kosuke Aita Kitami Juon Ishimura (Fourth) Youn Ishimura (Skip) Yuto Nakagawa Shunki Kudo Aomori Kantaro Kawano Kazuki Matsuoka Shun Takahashi Genji Ohara Keita Nishizawa Sapporo Takumi Maeda Asei Nakahara Uryu Kamikawa – Kitami Yusuke Morozumi Yuta Matsumura Ryotaro Shukuya Masaki Iwai Kosuke Morozumi Karuizawa Go Aoki (Fourth) Hayato Sato (Skip) Kouki Ogiwara Kazushi Nino Ayato Sasaki Sapporo Riku Yanagisawa Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi Karuizawa
Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Riku Yanagisawa 3 0 – 31 9 28.34 Takumi Maeda 1 2 1–1 20 17 39.94 Shinya Abe 1 2 1–1 15 21 44.48 Youn Ishimura 1 2 1–1 9 28 116.38 Pool B W L PF PA Yusuke Morozumi 3 0 – 22 13 30.12 Hayato Sato 2 1 – 19 19 17.22 Kohsuke Hirata 1 2 – 21 14 20.38 Kantaro Kawano 0 3 – 10 26 33.76
Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Draw 1 Thursday, August 10, 2:00 pm
Draw 3 Friday, August 11, 10:30 am
Draw 5 Friday, August 11, 5:30 pm
Playoffs
Source:
Semifinals Saturday, August 12, 2:00 pm
Third place game Sunday, August 13, 10:00 am
Final Sunday, August 13, 10:00 am
Women
Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Kana Ogawa Mizuki Saito Mika Okuyama Rimu Maruyama Sapporo Ai Matsunaga Yuna Sakuma Ayana Oikawa – Nayoro Misaki Tanaka (Fourth) Miori Nakamura (Skip) Haruka Kihara – Aomori Akari Hashimoto (Fourth) Kotone Suzuki Minami Nakao (Skip) Aira Inada Moka Tanaka Sapporo Honoka Sasaki Mari Motohashi Miki Hayashi Mayumi Saito Yako Matsuzawa Kitami Aone Nakamura (Fourth) Natsuki Sato (Skip) Himari Ichiyama Hiori Ichiyama Misako Kawahira Obihiro Kohane Tsuruga Ayami Ito Mikoto Nakajima Suzune Yasui Sapporo Yuna Kotani Kaho Onodera Anna Ohmiya Mina Kobayashi Sayaka Yoshimura Sapporo
Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Kohane Tsuruga 2 1 1–1 20 11 27.86 Honoka Sasaki 2 1 1–1 21 16 78.34 Miori Nakamura 2 1 1–1 16 17 86.36 Minami Nakao 0 3 – 11 24 65.52 Pool B W L PF PA Team Yoshimura 3 0 – 30 7 20.18 Team Minami 1 2 1–1 13 15 39.18 Natsuki Sato 1 2 1–1 12 21 83.54 Team Miura 1 2 1–1 11 23 85.20
Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Draw 2 Thursday, August 10, 5:30 pm
Draw 4 Friday, August 11, 2:00 pm
Draw 6 Saturday, August 12, 10:00 am
Playoffs
Source:
Semifinals Saturday, August 12, 5:30 pm
Third place game Sunday, August 13, 2:00 pm
Final Sunday, August 13, 2:00 pm
Notes
References
External links Official Website Men's Event Women's Event