2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

The 2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic was held from August 4 to 7 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan.[1] It was the first tour event of the 2022–23 curling season and the first event of the Hokkaido Curling Tour. The total purse for the event is ¥ 1,700,000 on both the men's and women's sides.[2][3]

2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic
Host citySapporo, Japan
ArenaHokkaido Bank Curling Stadium
DatesAugust 4–7
Men's winnerSouth Korea Team Jeong
Curling clubSeoul CC, Seoul
SkipJeong Byeong-jin
ThirdLee Jeong-jae
SecondKim Min-woo
LeadKim Tae-hwan
AlternateLee Dong-hyeon
CoachYang Jae-bong
FinalistJapan Yusuke Morozumi
Women's winnerJapan Team Yoshimura
Curling clubHokkaido Bank Fortius, Sapporo
SkipSayaka Yoshimura
ThirdKaho Onodera
SecondAnna Ohmiya
LeadMina Kobayashi
AlternateYumie Funayama
FinalistJapan Mayu Minami
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In the men's final, the 2022 Korean champions Team Jeong Byeong-jin defeated the Yusuke Morozumi rink 7–2 to win the title. Team Jeong, also consisting of Lee Jeong-jae, Kim Min-woo and Kim Tae-hwan went a perfect 5–0 to win the event, finishing first in their pool with a 3–0 record. They then beat the other Korean team skipped by Jeong Yeong-seok in the semifinal to earn their spot in the final game. Team Morozumi suffered one loss to the Jeong rink in the round robin but were able to defeat Team Hayato Sato in the semifinal to also reach the final. In the third-place game, the Jeong Yeong-seok rink won 5–4 over Team Sato. The eight-team field was rounded out by the Shinya Abe, Kohsuke Hirata, Masaki Ishikawa and Takumi Maeda rinks.

In the women's final, the defending Pacific-Asia champions Team Sayaka Yoshimura bested Team Mayu Minami 5–4. Team Yoshimura, with third Kaho Onodera, second Anna Ohmiya, lead Mina Kobayashi and alternate Yumie Funayama dropped their opening game to the Ikue Kitazawa rink before winning their next two games to qualify for the playoffs. They then beat the previously undefeated Ha Seung-youn Korean rink to reach the final. Team Minami qualified for the playoffs with a 1–2 record, but were able to upset the Kitazawa rink in their semifinal. The bronze medal game was won by Team Kitazawa in a 6–2 final over Team Ha. The women's field was rounded out by Teams Momoha Tabata, Sae Yamamoto, Miori Nakamura and Honoka Sasaki.

Men edit

Teams edit

The teams are listed as follows:[4][5]

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) Haruto Ouchi Shinya Abe (Skip) Minori Suzuki Sota Tsuruga   Sapporo, Japan
Kohsuke Hirata Shingo Usui Ryota Meguro Yoshiya Miura Kosuke Aita   Kitami, Japan
Masaki Ishikawa Yutaro Kasai Takanori Hirano Tatsuya Yokota Kenji Takamatsu   Sapporo, Japan
Jeong Byeong-jin Lee Jeong-jae Kim Min-woo Kim Tae-hwan Lee Dong-hyeon   Seoul, South Korea
Jeong Yeong-seok Park Jong-duk Oh Seung-hoon Seong Ji-hoon   Gangwon, South Korea
Takumi Maeda Uryu Kamikawa Hiroki Maeda Asei Nakahara   Kitami, Japan
Yusuke Morozumi Yuta Matsumura Ryotaro Shukuya Kosuke Morozumi Masaki Iwai   Karuizawa, Japan
Go Aoki (Fourth) Hayato Sato (Skip) Koki Ogiwara Kazushi Nino Ayato Sasaki   Sapporo, Japan

Round-robin standings edit

Final round-robin standings[6]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L PF PA DSC
  Jeong Byeong-jin 3 0 13 9 59.50
  Yusuke Morozumi 2 1 16 10 37.02
  Shinya Abe 1 2 11 12 49.02
  Kohsuke Hirata 0 3 9 18 20.84
Pool B W L PF PA DSC
  Hayato Sato 3 0 26 9 29.62
  Jeong Yeong-seok 2 1 13 14 40.92
  Masaki Ishikawa 1 2 15 18 32.05
  Takumi Maeda 0 3 10 23 37.72

Round-robin results edit

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[7][8]

Draw 1 edit

Thursday, August 4, 3:30 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Yusuke Morozumi   1 0 1 0 0 2 1 X 5
  Shinya Abe 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 X 2
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Jeong Byeong-jin 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 4
  Kohsuke Hirata   0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Masaki Ishikawa   2 1 2 0 3 2 X X 10
  Takumi Maeda 0 0 0 2 0 0 X X 2
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Jeong Yeong-seok   0 0 2 0 0 0 X X 2
  Hayato Sato 0 4 0 0 1 3 X X 8

Draw 3 edit

Friday, August 5, 10:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Masaki Ishikawa 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 2
  Hayato Sato   0 1 0 2 0 3 4 X 10
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Takumi Maeda   1 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 3
  Jeong Yeong-seok 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 X 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kohsuke Hirata   1 0 0 1 0 0 1 X 3
  Yusuke Morozumi 0 2 1 0 1 3 0 X 7
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Jeong Byeong-jin 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 X 4
  Shinya Abe   1 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 2

Draw 5 edit

Friday, August 5, 5:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Shinya Abe 0 2 0 4 1 0 X X 7
  Kohsuke Hirata   1 0 1 0 0 1 X X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Yusuke Morozumi 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 4
  Jeong Byeong-jin   1 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Jeong Yeong-seok 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 6
  Masaki Ishikawa   0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Hayato Sato   1 0 0 3 0 2 2 X 8
  Takumi Maeda 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 X 5

Playoffs edit

Source:[9]

Semifinals Final
      
A1   Jeong Byeong-jin 8
B2   Jeong Yeong-seok 2
A1   Jeong Byeong-jin 7
A2   Yusuke Morozumi 2
B1   Hayato Sato 1
A2   Yusuke Morozumi 10
Third place game
   
B2   Jeong Yeong-seok 5
B1   Hayato Sato 4

Semifinals edit

Saturday, August 6, 1:30 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Jeong Byeong-jin   0 1 1 1 0 5 X X 8
  Jeong Yeong-seok 0 0 0 0 2 0 X X 2
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Hayato Sato 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1
  Yusuke Morozumi   2 0 2 0 3 3 X X 10

Third place game edit

Sunday, August 7, 10:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Jeong Yeong-seok 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 5
  Hayato Sato   0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 4

Final edit

Sunday, August 7, 10:00 am

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Jeong Byeong-jin   2 0 0 1 0 4 X X 7
  Yusuke Morozumi 0 1 0 0 1 0 X X 2

Women edit

Teams edit

The teams are listed as follows:[5][10]

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Ha Seung-youn Kim Hye-rin Yang Tae-i Kim Su-jin   Chuncheon, South Korea
Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Chiaki Matsumura   Nagano, Japan
Mayu Minami Kana Ogawa Momo Kaneta Nao Kyoto   Sapporo, Japan
Misaki Tanaka (Fourth) Miori Nakamura (Skip) Haruka Kihira Hiyori Ichinohe Yuuna Harada   Aomori, Japan
Honoka Sasaki Mari Motohashi Miki Hayashi Ayuna Aoki Mayumi Saito   Kitami, Japan
Momoha Tabata Miku Nihira Mikoto Nakajima Ayami Ito   Sapporo, Japan
Miyu Ueno (Fourth) Sae Yamamoto (Skip) Suzune Yasui Mizuki Hara Momoka Iwase   Karuizawa, Japan
Sayaka Yoshimura Kaho Onodera Anna Ohmiya Mina Kobayashi[a] Yumie Funayama[a]   Sapporo, Japan

Round-robin standings edit

Final round-robin standings[11]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L W–L PF PA DSC
  Ha Seung-youn 3 0 19 8 19.50
  Mayu Minami 1 2 1–1 11 16 43.70
  Momoha Tabata 1 2 1–1 11 16 54.52
  Honoka Sasaki 1 2 1–1 15 16 55.48
Pool B W L W–L PF PA DSC
  Ikue Kitazawa 2 1 1–0 18 16 42.70
  Sayaka Yoshimura 2 1 0–1 16 11 14.84
  Sae Yamamoto 1 2 1–0 11 14 67.52
  Miori Nakamura 1 2 0–1 11 15 38.98

Round-robin results edit

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[8][12]

Draw 2 edit

Thursday, August 4, 7:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Ha Seung-youn   0 2 0 2 1 3 X X 8
  Momoha Tabata 0 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Honoka Sasaki 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 4
  Mayu Minami   0 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Miori Nakamura   0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2
  Sae Yamamoto 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 6
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Sayaka Yoshimura 0 1 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 6
  Ikue Kitazawa   2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 7

Draw 4 edit

Friday, August 5, 1:30 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Miori Nakamura   0 2 0 2 1 0 2 X 7
  Ikue Kitazawa 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Sae Yamamoto 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2
  Sayaka Yoshimura   1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Mayu Minami 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3
  Ha Seung-youn   0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 5
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Honoka Sasaki   1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 6
  Momoha Tabata 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 4

Draw 6 edit

Saturday, August 6, 10:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Momoha Tabata 0 3 3 0 0 1 X X 7
  Mayu Minami   1 0 0 1 0 0 X X 2
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Ha Seung-youn   1 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 6
  Honoka Sasaki 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Sayaka Yoshimura   0 0 0 1 0 5 0 X 6
  Miori Nakamura 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 X 2
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Ikue Kitazawa   0 2 0 3 0 2 1 X 8
  Sae Yamamoto 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 X 3

Playoffs edit

Source:[13]

Semifinals Final
      
A1   Ha Seung-youn 5
B2   Sayaka Yoshimura 6
B2   Sayaka Yoshimura 5
A2   Mayu Minami 4
B1   Ikue Kitazawa 6
A2   Mayu Minami 7
Third place game
   
A1   Ha Seung-youn 2
B1   Ikue Kitazawa 6

Semifinals edit

Saturday, August 6, 5:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Ha Seung-youn   1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 5
  Sayaka Yoshimura 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Ikue Kitazawa   0 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 6
  Mayu Minami 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 1 7

Third place game edit

Sunday, August 7, 4:00 pm

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Ha Seung-youn   0 0 1 0 0 0 1 X 2
  Ikue Kitazawa 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 X 6

Final edit

Sunday, August 7, 4:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Sayaka Yoshimura   0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 5
  Mayu Minami 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 4

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b Alternate Mina Kobayashi played lead throughout the tournament.

References edit

  1. ^ "Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic". Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  2. ^ "Men's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  3. ^ "Women's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  4. ^ "Men's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Teams List". Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  6. ^ "Men's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  7. ^ "Men's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Schedule". Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  9. ^ "Men's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  10. ^ "Women's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  11. ^ "Women's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  12. ^ "Women's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  13. ^ "Women's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 4, 2022.

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