Maeda2-2 at 2023 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Uryu
Kamikawa

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Asei
Nakahara

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda lost 10-1 to ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR), droppimg another game, 9-3 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) where Maeda responded with a 6-4 win over Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN). Maeda won 9-4 against Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Maeda earned 2.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 119th place overall with 24.750 total points. Maeda ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	38	18	0	0.679	14-5	4-5	2-2	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	400	359	254	8.98	6.35	2.63	4.88	4.00	1.84	1.59	1.13

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	196	248	75	25	10-1	23-4	44-10	1.27	0.38	0.45	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	204	111	179	20	1-4	8-12	16-34	0.54	0.88	0.54	0.37

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
Edmonton, AB

Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner (Photo: Stephen Fisher/World Curling) are semifinal bound after picking up an eighth victory in Fredericton.

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