The Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, held at the Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park in Wakkanai, Japan. It is held as part of the Hokkaido Curling Tour. The total purse for the event is ¥ 1,420,000 with the winning team receiving ¥ 800,000.
The tournament is held in a round robin format with the top four teams qualifying for the single elimination playoff round.
The event is streamed on the Hokkaido Curling Tour's YouTube page.
Past Champions
Men Year Winning team Runner-up team Purse (¥) 2022 Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara Yusuke Morozumi, Yuta Matsumura, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi 1,720,000 2023 Yusuke Morozumi, Yuta Matsumura, Ryotaro Shukuya, Masaki Iwai, Kosuke Morozumi Go Aoki (Fourth), Hayato Sato (Skip), Kouki Ogiwara, Kazushi Nino, Ayato Sasaki 1,700,000 2024 Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth), Shinya Abe (Skip), Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Ryoji Onodera 1,700,000 2025 Takumi Maeda, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa (3 player team) Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Koei Sato, Ryota Meguro 1,500,000 2026 Riku Yanagisawa (Fourth), Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Skip), Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth), Shinya Abe (Skip), Asei Nakahara, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato 1,420,000
Women Year Winning team Runner-up team Purse (¥) 2022 Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama Asuka Kanai, Ami Enami, Junko Nishimuro, Mone Ryokawa 1,720,000 2023 Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Sayaka Yoshimura Kohane Tsuruga, Ayami Ito, Mikoto Nakajima, Suzune Yasui 1,700,000 2024 Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Ami Enami, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi 1,700,000 2025 Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida Miyu Ueno, Yui Ueno, Asuka Kanai (3 player team) 1,500,000 2026 Miyu Ueno, Yui Ueno, Asuka Kanai (3 player team) Miku Nihira, Momoha Tabata, Sae Yamamoto, Mikoto Nakajima 1,420,000
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