Sano

Morioka, Japan

SKIP
Yasuhiro
Sano

Third
Hiroshi
Nakamura

Second
Wataru
Otsuka

Lead
Yoshiyuki
Sai

Games:	6
Record:	1W - 5L
PF/G:	6.14
PA/G:	9.77
Hammer Efficiency:	0.21
Steal Defense:	0.42
Force Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Efficiency:	0.17

Yasuhiro Sano (Morioka, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Sano finished 1-4 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sano lost 4-3 to Kota Onodera (Hokkaido, JPN), then responded with a 9-5 win over Kenji Iwasaki (Miyota, JPN). Sano went on to lose 6-5 against Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN). Sano lost 10-2 to Arihito Kasahara (Tokyo, JPN). Sano lost 11-4 to Takefumi Yamashita (Kakogawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Sano earned 0.166 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 156 spots the World Ranking Standings into 514th place overall with 0.166 total points. Sano ranks 228th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.166 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2025: Kotaro Noguchi
Kotaro Noguchi, Yuto Kamada, Hiroshi Kato, Hiromasa Yonehara
, JPN
2023: Kaito Fujii
Kaito Fujii, Miharu Kubota, Ruki Yokoyama, Ryouga Sakurai
Miyota, JPN
2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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