Japan's Kohsuke Hirata Runner-Up at Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

SKIP
Kohsuke
Hirata

Third
Shingo
Usui

Second
Koei
Sato

Lead
Ryota
Meguro

Japan's Kohsuke Hirata lost 5-1 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, held July 31 - August 3 in Hokkaido, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Japan's Kohsuke Hirata won 6-4 over Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals

Japan's Kohsuke Hirata finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Kohsuke Hirata lost 5-4 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN), then responded with a 12-4 win over Hakjun Kim (Chuncheon, KOR). Japan's Kohsuke Hirata won 7-4 against Japan's Takuma Makanae, then won 5-4 against Japan's Kaito Fujii in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Japan's Kohsuke Hirata take home 12.100 world rankings points along with the $4,703CDN prize, moving up 8 spots the World Ranking Standings into 42nd place overall with 71.725 total points. Japan's Kohsuke Hirata ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.100 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	17	13	0	0.567	1-0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	220	172	150	7.82	6.82	1.00	4.41	4.59	1.77	1.49	1.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	109	137	37	6	4-1	10-1	28-4	1.26	0.34	0.41	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	111	35	113	16	1-2	1-2	8-30	0.32	1.02	0.53	0.20

2025: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa
Kitami, JPN
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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