The 2025 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup was held from July 31 to August 3 at the Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park in Wakkanai, Japan. 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.
Men
Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) Shinya Abe (Skip) Hayato Sato Haruto Ouchi Sota Tsuruga Sapporo Kaito Fujii Miki Yamamoto Konosuke Takahashi Shunsuke Kanakawa Ryo Ogiwara Karuizawa Yuta Fuse Shogo Ishidate Koto Inaba Kento Nishida Wakkanai Kohsuke Hirata Shingo Usui Koei Sato Ryota Meguro Hirofumi Kobayashi Kitami Kim Hak-jun Moon Si-woo Park Jin-hwan Park Jong-hyeon Kim Myeong-jun Uiseong Takumi Maeda – Hiroki Maeda Uryu Kamikawa Tokoro Takuma Makanae Kantaro Kawano Masaki Kudo Taiki Nihira Keisuke Akutagawa Sapporo Shunta Kobayashi Kouki Ogiwara Taiki Kudo Yuto Abe Hinata Michitani Sapporo P. N. Raju Girithar Anthay Suthakaran Sudheer Reddy Kishan Vasant Hyderabad Riku Yanagisawa (Fourth) Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Skip) Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi Karuizawa
Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Team Yanagisawa 3 1 1–0 27 13 32.90 Takumi Maeda 3 1 0–1 28 15 44.60 Team Ogiwara 2 2 – 20 20 69.50 Yuta Fuse 1 3 1–0 17 29 46.20 P. N. Raju 1 3 0–1 11 26 120.60 Pool B W L PF PA Shinya Abe 4 0 – 27 14 42.70 Kohsuke Hirata 3 1 – 28 17 26.90 Kaito Fujii 2 2 – 22 16 33.50 Takuma Makanae 1 3 – 17 24 29.30 Kim Hak-jun 0 4 – 11 34 23.30
Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Draw 1 Thursday, July 31, 10:30 am
Draw 3 Thursday, July 31, 6:00 pm
Draw 5 Friday, August 1, 12:30 pm
Draw 7 Friday, August 1, 7:30 pm
Draw 9 Saturday, August 2, 12:30 pm
Playoffs
Source:
Semifinals Sunday, August 3, 9:00 am
Third place game Sunday, August 3, 12:30 pm
Final Sunday, August 3, 4:00 pm
Women
Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Kitami Kang Bo-bae Shim Yu-jeong Kim Min-seo Kim Ji-soo Lee Bo-young Jeonbuk Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Ami Enami Nagano Yuina Miura Kohane Tsuruga Rin Suzuki Hana Ikeda Aone Nakamura Sapporo Momoha Tabata (Fourth) Miku Nihira (Skip) Sae Yamamoto Mikoto Nakajima Sapporo Honoka Sasaki Yako Matsuzawa Hazuki Kimura Kaho Tamekuni Kitami Misaki Tanaka Miori Nakamura Hiyori Ichinohe Yuna Harada Aomori Miyu Ueno Yui Ueno – Asuka Kanai Karuizawa Hinako Sonobe (Fourth) Aoi Watanabe (Skip) Mao Ishigaki Mizuki Hara Yui Ozeki Tokyo Sayaka Yoshimura Kaho Onodera Yuna Kotani Anna Ohmiya Mina Kobayashi Sapporo
Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Satsuki Fujisawa 4 0 – 23 13 35.80 Miyu Ueno 3 1 – 20 19 49.20 Miku Nihira 2 2 – 22 20 43.90 Yuina Miura 1 3 – 18 23 44.70 Aoi Watanabe 0 4 – 18 26 74.00 Pool B W L PF PA Kang Bo-bae 4 0 – 31 10 16.40 Ikue Kitazawa 2 2 1–0 23 19 42.80 Sayaka Yoshimura 2 2 0–1 18 19 42.80 Misaki Tanaka 1 3 1–0 17 25 83.60 Honoka Sasaki 1 3 0–1 11 27 48.90
Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Draw 2 Thursday, July 31, 2:00 pm
Draw 4 Friday, August 1, 9:00 am
Draw 6 Friday, August 1, 4:00 pm
Draw 8 Saturday, August 2, 9:00 am
Draw 10 Saturday, August 2, 4:00 pm
Playoffs
Source:
Semifinals Sunday, August 3, 9:00 am
Third place game Sunday, August 3, 12:30 pm
Final Sunday, August 3, 4:00 pm
Notes
References
External links Official Website Men's Event Women's Event Video: playlist