2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

The 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic was held from August 3 to 6 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic
Host city	Sapporo, Japan
Arena	Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium
Dates	August 3–6
Men's winner	Team Hirata
Curling club	Tokoro CC, Tokoro
Skip	Kohsuke Hirata
Third	Shingo Usui
Second	Ryota Meguro
Lead	Yoshiya Miura
Alternate	Kosuke Aita
Coach	Hirofumi Kobayashi
Finalist	Park Jong-duk
Women's winner	Team Yoshimura
Curling club	Hokkaido Bank CS, Sapporo
Skip	Yuna Kotani
Third	Kaho Onodera
Second	Anna Ohmiya
Lead	Mina Kobayashi
Alternate	Sayaka Yoshimura
Coach	Yumie Funayama
Finalist	Momoha Tabata
« 2022 2025 »

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:^[4][5]

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^[6]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L W–L PF PA DSC 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 W–L PF PA DSC 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).^[7][8]

Draw 1

Thursday, August 3, 10:30 am

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Shinya Abe	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	5
Park Jong-duk	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Riku Yanagisawa	0	1	2	0	1	1	3	X	8
Hayato Sato	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	1

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Jeong Byeong-jin	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	3
Kotaro Noguchi	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	1	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Lee Jae-beom	0	0	0	0	0	2	X	X	2
Kohsuke Hirata	0	4	1	1	2	0	X	X	8

Draw 3

Friday, August 4, 9:00 am

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kotaro Noguchi	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	X	3
Hayato Sato	2	0	0	2	1	0	2	X	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Jeong Byeong-jin	3	1	0	3	2	1	X	X	10
Takumi Maeda	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	1

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Park Jong-duk	0	4	0	0	0	4	0	X	8
Lee Jae-beom	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	X	4

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yusuke Morozumi	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2
Shinya Abe	2	1	0	1	2	0	1	X	7

Draw 5

Friday, August 4, 4:00 pm

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

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Park Jong-duk	2	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	7
Yusuke Morozumi	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	1	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kohsuke Hirata	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2
Shinya Abe	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	X	5

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Hayato Sato	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	6
Jeong Byeong-jin	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	5

Draw 7

Saturday, August 5, 9:00 am

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

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Shinya Abe	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	X	5
Lee Jae-beom	1	3	0	0	3	0	0	X	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Hayato Sato	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	4
Takumi Maeda	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	1	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kotaro Noguchi	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	4
Riku Yanagisawa	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	3	8

Draw 9

Saturday, August 5, 4:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Riku Yanagisawa	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	4
Jeong Byeong-jin	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Takumi Maeda	2	0	3	1	1	0	2	X	9
Kotaro Noguchi	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	X	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Lee Jae-beom	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	5
Yusuke Morozumi	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kohsuke Hirata	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	4
Park Jong-duk	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2

Playoffs

Source:^[9]

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Kohsuke Hirata	6
	B2	Hayato Sato	3
						A1	Kohsuke Hirata	8
						A2	Park Jong-duk	2
	B1	Riku Yanagisawa	5
	A2	Park Jong-duk	6			Third place game
						B2	Hayato Sato	3
						B1	Riku Yanagisawa	7

Semifinals

Sunday, August 6, 9:00 am

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kohsuke Hirata	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	2	6
Hayato Sato	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Riku Yanagisawa	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	5
Park Jong-duk	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	1	6

Third place game

Sunday, August 6, 12:30 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Hayato Sato	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
Riku Yanagisawa	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	2	7

Final

Sunday, August 6, 4:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kohsuke Hirata	2	2	0	2	0	2	X	X	8
Park Jong-duk	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	2

Women

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[5][10]

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 Yu-bin	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[a]	Kaho Onodera	Anna Ohmiya	Mina Kobayashi	Sayaka Yoshimura[a]	Sapporo, Japan

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings^[11]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L PF PA DSC 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 DSC 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 Yu-bin 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).^[8][12]

Draw 2

Thursday, August 3, 2:00 pm

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

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Team Yoshimura	0	0	3	1	0	2	1	X	7
Asuka Kanai	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yuina Miura	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	X	3
Park Yu-bin	1	0	3	1	1	0	3	X	9

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Su-hyeon	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	X	4
Ikue Kitazawa	0	2	2	0	0	2	4	X	10

Draw 4

Friday, August 4, 12:30 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Park Yu-bin	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	X	3
Asuka Kanai	0	1	0	2	0	3	1	X	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yuina Miura	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	X	2
Momoha Tabata	1	0	0	3	1	2	0	X	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mayu Minami	1	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	2
Kim Su-hyeon	0	0	2	2	1	2	X	X	7

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Miori Nakamura	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	6
Honoka Sasaki	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	5

Draw 6

Friday, August 4, 7:30 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Momoha Tabata	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	5
Team Yoshimura	1	2	1	0	0	2	1	0	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mayu Minami	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	4
Miori Nakamura	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	2	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Ikue Kitazawa	3	1	0	0	2	0	3	X	9
Honoka Sasaki	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Asuka Kanai	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	0	5
Yuina Miura	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	4

Draw 8

Saturday, August 5, 12:30 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Miori Nakamura	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	X	4
Ikue Kitazawa	1	0	2	1	0	2	1	X	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Honoka Sasaki	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	X	3
Kim Su-hyeon	1	1	1	1	0	2	0	X	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Asuka Kanai	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	1
Momoha Tabata	2	0	2	1	3	4	X	X	12

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Park Yu-bin	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	2	6
Team Yoshimura	0	1	0	1	3	2	0	0	7

Draw 10

Saturday, August 5, 7:30 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Team Yoshimura	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	X	5
Yuina Miura	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Momoha Tabata	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	2	8
Park Yu-bin	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Su-hyeon	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	X	3
Miori Nakamura	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	X	7

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

Playoffs

Source:^[13]

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Ikue Kitazawa	5
	B2	Momoha Tabata	6
						B2	Momoha Tabata	2
						B1	Team Yoshimura	7
	B1	Team Yoshimura	7
	A2	Miori Nakamura	6			Third place game
						A1	Ikue Kitazawa	6
						A2	Miori Nakamura	0

Semifinals

Sunday, August 6, 9:00 am

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Ikue Kitazawa	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	5
Momoha Tabata	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Team Yoshimura	0	2	1	0	1	1	0	2	7
Miori Nakamura	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	6

Third place game

Sunday, August 6, 12:30 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Ikue Kitazawa	1	2	0	1	1	1	X	X	6
Miori Nakamura	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0

Final

Sunday, August 6, 4:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Momoha Tabata	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	X	2
Team Yoshimura	0	2	1	3	0	0	1	X	7

Notes

1. As skip Sayaka Yoshimura was on maternity leave, the rest of the team moved up the lineup a position. Yoshimura was listed as the alternate on the roster, however.