CHAMPION: Abe Wins 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Second
Haruto
Ouchi

Lead
Hayato
Sato

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-4 over Takumi Maeda (Tokoro, JPN) in the Final of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, held August 8 - 11, 2024 in Hokkaido, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Abe won 4-3 over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals

Abe finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe defeated Maeda 6-5, then went on to lose 5-2 against Koki Ogiwara (Sapporo, JPN). Abe responded with a 9-4 win over Soo-Hyuk Kim (Gyeongbuk, KOR). Abe won 8-5 against Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup Championship title, Abe earned 18.750 world rankings points. For week 2 of the event schedule, Abe did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Abe ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

2024: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Yuta Matsumura, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai
Karuizawa, JPN
2022: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN

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