Sato Runner-Up at 2023 Karuizawa International

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Hayato
Sato

Second
Koki
Ogiwara

Lead
Kazushi
Niino

Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) lost 7-1 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held December 1 - 3, 2023 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Sato won 5-2 over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2023 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan;

Sato finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sato defeated Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) 9-6, then won 6-3 against Yuun Ishimura (Aomori, JPN) and 6-3 against Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Karuizawa International, Sato take home 19.250 world rankings points along with the $3,670CDN prize. Sato move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 10.969 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 42nd overall with 93.344 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sato ranks 38th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 68.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	27	0	0.481	6-3	3-12	2-3	0-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	391	259	277	6.62	7.08	-0.46	4.09	4.22	1.62	1.68	1.69

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	190	196	69	31	2-2	15-5	43-10	1.03	0.36	0.38	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	201	63	208	35	3-3	2-18	6-40	0.31	1.03	0.50	0.22

2026: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Hayato Sato, Haruto Ouchi, Sota Tsuruga, Makoto Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2024: Marc Muskatewitz
Marc Muskatewitz, Benny Kapp, Felix Messenzehl, Johannes Scheuerl
Fuessen, GER
2023: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker , Siyu Liu
St. John's, NL
2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Mike McEwen, Matt Wozniak, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Tetsuro Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Morozumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Aberdeen, SCO
2015: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR