Yanagisawa2-3 at 2024 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa lost 4-3 to Cameron de Jong (Victoria, BC), then responded with a 5-4 win over Brad Jacobs (Edmonton, AB). Yanagisawa went on to lose 4-3 against Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB). Yanagisawa responded with a 7-3 win over Neil Dangerfield (Victoria, BC). Yanagisawa went on to lose 7-6 against Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

The berth into the first round of the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic playoffs earned Yanagisawa 4.500 world rankings points. For week 13 of the event schedule, Yanagisawa did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Yanagisawa ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	44	35	0	0.557	12-8	1-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	619	434	426	7.01	6.88	0.13	4.48	4.33	1.57	1.59	1.20

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	330	347	114	40	3-3	18-7	83-18	1.05	0.35	0.36	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	289	87	312	34	1-7	2-13	21-69	0.30	1.08	0.55	0.20

2024: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert , Paul Webster
Edmonton, AB
2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, 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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