Maeda Runner-Up at Sun City Cup

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Hiroki
Maeda

Second
Uryu
Kamikawa

Lead
Gakuto
Tokoro

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) lost 10-4 to Stefano Spiller (Bormio, ITA) in the Final of the Sun City Cup, held January 22 - 25 in Karlstad, Sweden. To advance to the championship game, Maeda won 6-4 over Cameron Bryce (Kinross, SCO) in the semifinals of the Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden; and won 6-4 over Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) in the quarterfinals.

Maeda are currently . In their opening game, Maeda plays Kristian Lindstroem (Karlstad, SWE) on Thursday at 7am Jacob Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN) on Friday at 2am and Anders Mjoen (Oppdall, NOR) at 6am and Anders Mjoen (Oppdall, NOR) at 6am.

With their runner-up finish at the Sun City Cup, Maeda take home 20.350 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN prize. Maeda move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 8.65 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 26th overall with 133.444 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Maeda ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 119.600 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	52	26	0	0.667	3-1	1-2	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	552	461	365	8.35	6.61	1.74	4.71	4.15	1.77	1.59	1.14

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	269	346	77	30	12-3	22-2	76-9	1.29	0.29	0.46	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	283	115	288	33	1-5	7-19	23-56	0.41	1.02	0.55	0.26

2025: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Stirling, SCO
2024: Wouter Gosgens
Wouter Gosgens, Laurens Hoekman, Jaap van Dorp, Tobias van den Hurk, Alexander Magan
Zoetermeer, NED
2023: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE