Bronze for Hirata at 2024 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

SKIP
Kohsuke
Hirata

Third
Shingo
Usui

Second
Ryota
Meguro

Lead
Yoshiya
Miura

Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) won 16-1 over Takumi Hasegawa (Tokyo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup in Obihiro, Japan. of the 2024 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup in Obihiro, Japan; Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) won 16-1 over Takumi Hasegawa (Tokyo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup in Obihiro, Japan. After receiving a bye through the quarterfinals, Hirata lost 5-4 to Yusaku Shibatani (Obihiro, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2024 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup in Obihiro, Japan; of the 2024 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup in Obihiro, Japan;

Hirata finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hirata defeated Toshiya Iida (Wakkanai, JPN) 7-5, then won 12-1 against Keita Hayashi (Obihiro, JPN) and 7-4 against Keita Nishizawa (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Obihiro ICE Gold Cup, Hirata earn 4.250 world rankings points and 465CDN. For week 1 of the event schedule, Hirata did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Hirata 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: Toshiya Iida
Toshiya Iida, Yuta Fuuse, Koto Inaba, Kento Nishida
Wakkanai, JPN
2023: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Yoshiya Miura, Sota Jutori
Kitami, JPN
2018: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Daiki Shikano, Yoshiya Miura , Hirofumi Kobayashi
Kitami, JPN

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