Nakahara4-5 at 2025 World Junior Curling Championships

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Toa
Nakahara

Third
Hinata
Michitani

Second
Riku
Takemura

Lead
Yuta
Kimura

Games:	9
Record:	4W - 5L
PF/G:	5.97
PA/G:	9.58
Hammer Efficiency:	0.27
Steal Defense:	0.37
Force Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Toa Nakahara (Kitami, JPN) finished 4-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nakahara lost 12-1 to Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen, then responded with a 6-1 win over Felix Luethold (Wildhaus, SUI). Nakahara won 7-5 against Lukas Jaeger (Fuessen, GER). Nakahara went on to lose 10-3 against Stefano Gilli (Pinerolo, ITA). Nakahara responded with a 8-6 win over Wesley Wendling (Chaska, USA). Nakahara went on to lose 9-4 against Orrin Carson (Stirling, SCO). Nakahara lost 10-3 to Korea's Daehyeon Kim. Nakahara lost 9-3 to Jacob Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN) where Nakahara responded with a 8-7 win over Kenan Wipf (Calgary, CAN) in their final qualifying round match.

Nakahara earned 1.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 84 spots the World Ranking Standings into 264th place overall with 2.438 total points. Nakahara ranks 263rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.438 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	4	9	0	0.308	1-1	0-5	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	96	46	90	4.79	9.38	-4.58	3.33	5.21	1.44	1.80	1.46

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	54	32	45	8	0-2	2-4	7-5	0.59	0.83	0.20	0.46

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	42	14	45	6	0-1	0-4	3-9	0.33	1.07	0.44	0.26

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