Shibatani Runner-Up at 2024 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

SKIP
Yusaku
Shibatani

Third
Toshiya
Matsuda

Second
Fukuhiro
Ohno

Lead
Shun
Sakai

Yusaku Shibatani (Obihiro, JPN) lost 6-3 to Toshiya Iida (Wakkanai, JPN) in the Final of the Obihiro ICE Gold Cup, held June 7 - 9, 2024 in Obihiro, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Shibatani won 5-4 over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2024 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup in Obihiro, Japan; and won 9-0 over Keita Hayashi (Obihiro, JPN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup in Obihiro, Japan;

Shibatani finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shibatani defeated Takumi Hasegawa (Tokyo, JPN) 7-0, then won 5-4 against Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN) and 7-5 against Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Obihiro ICE Gold Cup, Shibatani take home 5.500 world rankings points along with the $1,396CDN prize. For week 1 of the event schedule, Shibatani did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Shibatani 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	5	1	0	0.833	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	44	36	19	8.18	4.32	3.86	5.45	3.18	1.50	1.36	1.36

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	18	19	2	3	1-0	0-0	3-0	1.06	0.11	0.27	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	26	17	17	3	1-0	0-0	3-5	0.65	0.65	0.58	0.42

2024: Toshiya Iida
Toshiya Iida, Yuta Fuuse, Koto Inaba, Kento Nishida
Wakkanai, JPN
2023: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Yoshiya Miura, Sota Jutori
Kitami, JPN
2018: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Daiki Shikano, Yoshiya Miura , Hirofumi Kobayashi
Kitami, JPN