Harunobu Kawahira (Obihiro, JPN) won 6-4 over Kentaro Koike (Hirosaki, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship in Kitami, Japan, Japan. of the 2023 Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship in Kitami, Japan, Japan; Harunobu Kawahira (Obihiro, JPN) won 6-4 over Kentaro Koike (Hirosaki, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship in Kitami, Japan, Japan. Kawahira lost
7-4 to
Hayaki Kasai (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Kawahira finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kawahira lost
9-8 to
Motojiro Go (Kitami, JPN), then responded with a
10-4 win over
Hirohiro Okamoto (Akita, JPN). Kawahira won
6-5 against
Syunta Kobayashi (Sapporo, JPN), then won
16-2 against
Takuma Harada (Toyama, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship, Kawahira earn
2.250 world rankings points. For week 19 of the event schedule, Kawahira did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the
World Ranking Standings with
total points. Kawahira ranks th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
points earned so far this season.
