Yanagisawa5-7 at 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	12
Record:	5W - 7L
PF/G:	6.70
PA/G:	7.38
Hammer Efficiency:	0.32
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Efficiency:	0.16

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 5-7 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR) 4-3, then won 9-2 against ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) and 6-5 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Yanagisawa went on to lose 6-3 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Yanagisawa responded with a 10-5 win over Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL). Yanagisawa went on to lose 9-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Yanagisawa lost 9-2 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) where Yanagisawa responded with a 9-3 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Yanagisawa went on to lose 7-4 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Lillehammer, NOR). Yanagisawa lost 7-6 to Yannick Schwaller (Geneva, SUI). Yanagisawa lost 12-5 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Yanagisawa lost 8-5 to Sixten Totzek (Baden Baden, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

Yanagisawa earned 20.625 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 16th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 4.125 after improving upon their best so far this season. Yanagisawa ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 168.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	64	31	0	0.674	10-6	13-10	8-3	1-0	2-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	720	556	447	7.72	6.21	1.51	4.58	3.93	1.68	1.58	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	344	427	79	43	10-1	28-5	96-9	1.24	0.23	0.45	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	376	129	368	64	1-10	6-21	28-66	0.34	0.98	0.57	0.23

2026: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren, Simon Olofsson
Karlstad, SWE
2025: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr., Kyle Waddell, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2024: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wranaa, Christoffer Sundgren, Daniel Magnusson, Alexander Lindstroem
Ornskoldsvik, SWE
2023: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr., Kyle Waddell, Ross Paterson
Stirling, SCO
2022: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren, Daniel Magnusson, Fredrik Lindberg
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren, Daniel Magnusson
Karlstad, SWE
2018: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren, Henrik Leek
Karlstad, SWE
2017: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker, Tom Sallows
St. John's, CAN
2016: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert, Scott Pfeifer
Calgary, CAN
2015: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Kristian Lindstroem, Christoffer Sundgren, Henrik Leek
Karlstad, SWE
2014: Thomas Ulsrud
Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergaard, Christoffer Svae, Haavard Vad Petersson, Markus Hoiberg
Snaroen, NOR
2013: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Sebastian Kraupp, Fredrik Lindberg, Viktor Kjell, Oskar Eriksson
Karlstad, SWE
2012: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Wayne Middaugh, Brent Laing, Craig Savill, Scott Howard
Coldwater, CAN
2011: Jeff Stoughton
Jeff Stoughton, Jon Mead, Reid Carruthers, Steve Gould, Garth Smith
Winnipeg, CAN
2009: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Ewan MacDonald, Peter Smith, Euan Byers, Graeme Connal
, SCO