2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

The 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup was held from held from August 18 to 21 at the Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park in Wakkanai, Japan.^[1] It was the second tour event of the 2022–23 curling season and the second event of the Hokkaido Curling Tour. The total purse for the event is ¥ 1,720,000 on both the men's and women's sides.^[2][3]

2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup
Host city	Wakkanai, Japan
Arena	Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park
Dates	August 18–21
Men's winner	Team Maeda
Curling club	Tokoro CC, Kitami
Skip	Takumi Maeda
Third	Uryu Kamikawa
Second	Hiroki Maeda
Lead	Asei Nakahara
Coach	Nobuo Aoki
Finalist	Yusuke Morozumi
Women's winner	Team Yoshimura
Curling club	Hokkaido Bank CS, Sapporo
Skip	Sayaka Yoshimura
Third	Kaho Onodera
Second	Anna Ohmiya
Lead	Mina Kobayashi
Alternate	Yumie Funayama
Finalist	Asuka Kanai
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Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[4]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Locale
Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth)	Haruto Ouchi	Shinya Abe (Skip)	Minori Suzuki	Sota Tsuruga	Sapporo
Kohsuke Hirata	Shingo Usui	Ryota Meguro	Yoshiya Miura	Kosuke Aita	Kitami
Koto Inaba (Fourth)	Toshiya Iida (Skip)	Yuta Fuse	Kento Nishida		Wakkanai
Juon Ishimura	Sota Kon	Youn Ishimura	Shunaki Kudo		Aomori
Takumi Maeda	Uryu Kamikawa	Hiroki Maeda	Asei Nakahara		Kitami
Yusuke Morozumi	Yuta Matsumura	Ryotaro Shukuya	Kosuke Morozumi	Masaki Iwai	Karuizawa
Kotaro Noguchi	Yuto Kamada	Hiroshi Kato	Yuuki Yoshimura	Hayato Fujimura	Sendai
Go Aoki (Fourth)	Hayato Sato (Skip)	Kouki Ogiwara	Kazushi Nino	Ayato Sasaki	Sapporo

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings^[5]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L PF PA DSC Yusuke Morozumi 3 0 28 9 42.50 Juon Ishimura 2 1 19 21 24.84 Hayato Sato 1 2 21 17 24.76 Toshiya Iida 0 3 9 30 65.34

Pool B W L PF PA DSC Takumi Maeda 3 0 23 15 12.38 Kotaro Noguchi 2 1 20 20 78.48 Kohsuke Hirata 1 2 19 20 15.18 Shinya Abe 0 3 16 22 29.70

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).^[6]

Draw 1

Thursday, August 18, 10:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Toshiya Iida	0	1	0	1	0	1	X	X	3
Hayato Sato	6	0	6	0	1	0	X	X	13

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Juon Ishimura	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	X	4
Yusuke Morozumi	1	0	4	3	0	2	2	X	12

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Shinya Abe	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	6
Kotaro Noguchi	0	1	0	1	0	3	3	0	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Takumi Maeda	0	2	0	3	1	0	0	1	7
Kohsuke Hirata	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	6

Draw 3

Friday, August 19, 9:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kotaro Noguchi	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	X	4
Takumi Maeda	2	0	0	1	0	4	0	X	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Shinya Abe	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	5
Kohsuke Hirata	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Hayato Sato	0	0	1	0	0	4	0	0	5
Juon Ishimura	1	2	0	0	1	0	2	1	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Toshiya Iida	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	2
Yusuke Morozumi	3	0	2	3	0	1	X	X	9

Draw 5

Friday, August 19, 3:40 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Juon Ishimura	0	1	0	2	0	3	2	X	8
Toshiya Iida	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Takumi Maeda	2	0	0	4	0	1	2	X	9
Shinya Abe	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	X	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yusuke Morozumi	2	0	2	2	0	1	0	X	7
Hayato Sato	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kohsuke Hirata	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	2	7
Kotaro Noguchi	4	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	8

Playoffs

Source:^[7]

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Yusuke Morozumi	7
	B2	Kotaro Noguchi	2
						A1	Yusuke Morozumi	4
						B1	Takumi Maeda	6
	B1	Takumi Maeda	7
	A2	Juon Ishimura	6			Third place game
						B2	Kotaro Noguchi	6
						A2	Juon Ishimura	5

Semifinals

Saturday, August 20, 12:20 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yusuke Morozumi	1	1	0	2	2	0	1	X	7
Kotaro Noguchi	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Takumi Maeda	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	7
Juon Ishimura	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	6

Third place game

Sunday, August 21, 9:30 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Kotaro Noguchi	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	6
Juon Ishimura	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	5

Final

Sunday, August 21, 9:30 am

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yusuke Morozumi	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	4
Takumi Maeda	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	6

Women

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[8]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Locale
Asuka Kanai	Ami Enami	Junko Nishimuro	Mone Ryokawa		Karuizawa
Ikue Kitazawa	Seina Nakajima	Minori Suzuki	Hasumi Ishigooka	Chiaki Matsumura	Nagano
Mayu Minami	Kana Ogawa	Momo Kaneta	Nao Kyoto		Sapporo
Honoka Sasaki	Mari Motohashi	Miki Hayashi	Ayuna Aoki	Mayumi Saito	Kitami
Momoha Tabata	Miku Nihira	Mikoto Nakajima	Ayami Ito		Sapporo
Miyu Ueno (Fourth)	Sae Yamamoto (Skip)	Suzune Yasui	Mizuki Hara	Momoka Iwase	Sapporo
Sayaka Yoshimura	Kaho Onodera	Anna Ohmiya	Mina Kobayashi[lower-alpha 1]	Yumie Funayama[lower-alpha 1]	Sapporo

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings^[9]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L W–L PF PA DSC Sayaka Yoshimura 2 0 – 16 9 38.04 Asuka Kanai 1 1 – 15 14 17.52 Momoha Tabata 0 2 – 6 14 77.64

Pool B W L W–L PF PA DSC Ikue Kitazawa 2 1 1–0 19 15 41.14 Honoka Sasaki 2 1 0–1 18 12 69.36 Mayu Minami 1 2 1–0 13 18 39.60 Sae Yamamoto 1 2 0–1 13 18 69.64

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).^[10]

Draw 2

Thursday, August 18, 1:20 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Momoha Tabata	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	4
Asuka Kanai	1	1	0	1	2	0	1	2	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sae Yamamoto	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	1	6
Ikue Kitazawa	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Honoka Sasaki	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	1	6
Mayu Minami	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	3

Draw 4

Friday, August 19, 12:20 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Ikue Kitazawa	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	2	7
Honoka Sasaki	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sae Yamamoto	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	5
Mayu Minami	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Sayaka Yoshimura	1	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	3	10
Asuka Kanai	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	3	0	7

Draw 6

Saturday, August 20, 9:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Momoha Tabata	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	2
Sayaka Yoshimura	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	X	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Honoka Sasaki	2	0	1	1	0	3	X	X	7
Sae Yamamoto	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mayu Minami	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	X	4
Ikue Kitazawa	1	2	0	1	0	3	0	X	7

Playoffs

Source:^[11]

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Sayaka Yoshimura	7
	B2	Honoka Sasaki	2
						A1	Sayaka Yoshimura	9
						A2	Asuka Kanai	2
	B1	Ikue Kitazawa	2
	A2	Asuka Kanai	4			Third place game
						B2	Honoka Sasaki	6
						B1	Ikue Kitazawa	5

Semifinals

Saturday, August 20, 5:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sayaka Yoshimura	0	1	0	2	1	0	3	X	7
Honoka Sasaki	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Ikue Kitazawa	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
Asuka Kanai	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	4

Third place game

Sunday, August 21, 2:00 pm

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Honoka Sasaki	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	6
Ikue Kitazawa	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	5

Final

Sunday, August 21, 2:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sayaka Yoshimura	2	3	2	0	0	0	2	X	9
Asuka Kanai	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	2

Notes

1. Alternate Mina Kobayashi played lead throughout the tournament.

References

1. "Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup 2022". Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
2. "Men's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
3. "Women's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
4. "Men's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
5. "Men's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
6. "Men's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
7. "Men's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
8. "Women's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
9. "Women's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
10. "Women's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
11. "Women's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 10, 2023.

External links

• Official Website
• Men's Event
• Women's Event