The 2026 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup was held from August 27 to 30 at the Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park in Wakkanai, Japan. It was the second event of the 2026–27 Hokkaido Curling Tour. The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,420,000 on both the men's and women's sides.
Team Kang Bo-bae withdrew from the event after the schedule was finalized. All of their games were counted as a win for their opponents.
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 Yuto Abe Ayato Sasaki Yuta Kimura Akitsugu Yoshimoto Yuken Hayashi 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 Toshiya Ilda Yuta Fuse Masao Ishidate Kento Nishida Wakkanai Takumi Maeda Hiroki Maeda Uryu Kamikawa Gakuto Tokoro Tokoro Tsubasa Nakagawa Eito Nakagawa Makoto Kabira Ayumu Ota Sakuraji Maeda Obihiro 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 Shinya Abe 4 0 – 31 12 25.1 Kaito Fujii 3 1 – 21 14 27.4 Takumi Maeda 2 2 – 26 15 74.8 Yuto Abe 1 3 – 12 28 40.9 P. N. Raju 0 4 – 7 28 80.1 Pool B W L PF PA Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi 4 0 – 31 9 26.2 Kohsuke Hirata 3 1 – 27 15 38.2 Kouki Ogiwara 2 2 – 25 25 27.5 Tsubasa Nakagawa 1 3 – 11 33 67.7 Toshiya Ilda 0 4 – 14 26 59.2
Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Draw 1 Thursday, August 27, 10:30 am
Draw 3 Thursday, August 27, 6:00 pm
Draw 5 Thursday, August 28, 12:30 pm
Draw 7 Thursday, August 28, 7:30 pm
Draw 9 Friday, August 29, 12:30 pm
Playoffs
Semifinals Sunday, August 30, 9:00 am
Third place game Sunday, August 30, 12:30 pm
Final Sunday, August 30, 4:00 pm
Women
Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Himari Ichiyama Yoshino Mitsukari Hiori Ichiyama Moeka Nakagawa Shinyuki Tsuchiya Obihiro Kang Bo-bae Kim Kyeong-ae Shim Yu-jeong Kim Ji-soo Kim Min-seo Jeonbuk Kim Su-hyeon Park Han-byul Bang Yu-jin Kim Hae-jeong Kim Eun-jung Uiseong Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Chiaki Matsumura Nagano 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 (Fourth) Moka Tanaka (Skip) Minami Nakao Akari Hashimoto 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 Miyu Ueno 3 1 1–0 28 19 33.8 Team Kim 3 1 0–1 23 20 49.7 Moka Tanaka 2 2 – 19 25 74.9 Kotoka Segawa 1 3 1–0 21 28 48.8 Park You-been 1 3 0–1 26 25 53.2 Pool B W L PF PA Miku Nihira 4 0 – 16 8 37.5 Ikue Kitazawa 2 2 1–1 24 17 27.2 Yuina Miura 2 2 1–1 14 17 39.4 Himari Ichiyama 2 2 1–1 12 24 82.5 Kang Bo-bae 0 4 – 0 0 199.6
Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
Draw 2 Thursday, August 27, 2:00 pm
Draw 4 Thursday, August 28, 9:00 am
Draw 6 Thursday, August 28, 4:00 pm
Draw 8 Friday, August 29, 9:00 am
Draw 10 Friday, August 29, 4:00 pm
Playoffs
Semifinals Sunday, August 30, 9:00 am
Third place game Sunday, August 30, 12:30 pm
Final Sunday, August 30, 4:00 pm
Notes
References
External links Official Website Men's Event Women's Event