2026 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

The 2026 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic was held from August 20 to 23 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first event of the 2026–27 Hokkaido Curling Tour. The total purse for the event is ¥ 1,720,000 on both the men's and women's sides.

On the men's side, Tokoro's Takumi Maeda downed Nagano's Tsuyoshi Yamagichi 9–2 in the final while Kitami's Kohsuke Hirata beat Sapporo's Shinya Abe 4–1 to secure third place. In the women's division, Miku Nihira topped Team Moka Tanaka, skipped by Kotone Suzuki, 5–4 in a battle of Sapporo rinks while Korea's Park You-been won 10–3 against Sapporo's Mina Kobayashi in the third place game.

Men

Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) Shinya Abe (Skip) Haruto Ouchi Hayato Sato Asei Nakahara Sapporo Kaito Fujii Miki Yamamoto Konosuke Takahashi Shunsuke Kanagawa Ruki Yokoyama Karuizawa Go Aoki (Fourth) Shingo Usui Takeshi Aoyanagi Kohsuke Hirata (Skip) Ryota Meguro Kitami Takuma Makanae (Fourth) Sota Jutori (Skip) Masaki Kudo Masaki Ishikawa Keisuke Akutagawa Sapporo Yutaro Kasai Miu Sato Taisei Tsukamoto Kentaro Shibaya Kenji Takamatsu Wakkanai Takumi Maeda Hiroki Maeda Uryu Kamikawa Gakuto Tokoro Tokoro Ryo Ogihara Hayato Ueno Keito Sanuki Daisuke Sonoyama Karuizawa Kouki Ogiwara Hinata Michitani Chikara Segawa Taiki Kudo Shunta Kobayashi Sapporo P. N. Raju Tucker Hellman Carter Hellman Kenneth Doan Hyderabad Riku Yanagisawa (Fourth) Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Skip) Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi Karuizawa

Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Kohsuke Hirata 4 0 – 29 12 30.3 Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi 3 1 – 35 17 25.1 Kaito Fujii 2 2 – 26 18 42.2 Yutaro Kasai 1 3 – 13 37 68.7 Ryo Ogihara 0 4 – 14 33 43.7 Pool B W L PF PA Shinya Abe 4 0 – 29 15 55.8 Takumi Maeda 3 1 – 27 19 33.9 Kouki Ogiwara 2 2 – 25 24 76.6 Sota Jutori 1 3 – 20 32 105.0 P. N. Raju 0 4 – 17 28 73.2

Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Draw 1 Thursday, August 20, 10:30 am

Draw 2 Thursday, August 20, 2:00 pm

Draw 3 Friday, August 21, 9:00 am

Draw 4 Friday, August 21, 12:30 pm

Draw 5 Friday, August 21, 4:00 pm

Draw 6 Friday, August 21, 7:30 pm

Draw 7 Saturday, August 22, 9:00 am

Draw 8 Saturday, August 22, 12:30 pm

Draw 9 Saturday, August 22, 4:00 pm

Draw 10 Saturday, August 22, 7:30 pm

Playoffs

Semifinals Sunday, August 23, 9:00 am

Third place game Sunday, August 23, 12:30 pm

Final Sunday, August 23, 12:30 pm

Women

Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Satsuki Fujisawa Yako Matsuzawa – Yumi Suzuki Kitami Kim Eun-jung Park Han-byul Bang Yu-jin Kim Hae-jeong Kim Su-hyeon Uiseong Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Chiaki Matsumura Nagano Mina Kobayashi Kaho Onodera Yuna Kotani Anna Ohmiya Sapporo Yuina Miura Kohane Tsuruga Rin Suzuki Aone Nakamura Minami Chiba Sapporo Miku Nihira Momoha Tabata Sae Yamamoto Mikoto Nakajima Sapporo Park You-been Park Seo-jin Yang Tae-i Kim Su-jin Chuncheon Kotoka Segawa Suzune Yasui Yuna Sakuma Aira Inada Yumeka Mori Sapporo Kotone Suzuki Akari Hashimoto Minami Nakao Hana Ikeda Sapporo Miyu Ueno Yui Ueno – Asuka Kanai Karuizawa

Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Team Tanaka 3 1 – 22 21 38.7 Park You-been 2 2 2–0 22 19 41.1 Yuina Miura 2 2 1–1 27 22 23.3 Ikue Kitazawa 2 2 0–2 23 25 44.6 Satsuki Fujisawa 1 3 – 16 23 30.2 Pool B W L PF PA Miku Nihira 4 0 – 26 16 23.9 Mina Kobayashi 2 2 1–0 20 20 26.5 Kotoka Segawa 2 2 0–1 17 18 74.4 Miyu Ueno 1 3 1–0 19 28 27.2 Kim Eun-jung 1 3 0–1 19 19 40.3