Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) won 9-5 over Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2025 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. of the 2025 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan; Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) won 9-5 over Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2025 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic in Sapporo, Japan. Maeda lost
10-5 to
Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Maeda finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated
P.N. Raju (Hyderabad, IN) 12-0, then won
6-1 against
Koki Ogiwara (Sapporo, JPN) and
7-5 against
Eito Nakagawa (Hokkaido, JPN). Maeda won
5-3 against
Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Maeda earn
10.350 world rankings points and 1881CDN. For week 3 of the event schedule, Maeda did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 27th place on the
World Ranking Standings with
127.250 total points. Maeda ranks 3rd overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
16.500 points earned so far this season.
