Nakahara4-5 at 2025 World Junior Curling Championships

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Toa
Nakahara

Third
Hinata
Michitani

Second
Riku
Takemura

Lead
Yuta
Kimura

Games:	9
Record:	4W - 5L
PF/G:	5.97
PA/G:	9.58
Hammer Efficiency:	0.27
Steal Defense:	0.37
Force Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Toa Nakahara (Kitami, JPN) finished 4-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nakahara lost 12-1 to Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen, then responded with a 6-1 win over Felix Luethold (Wildhaus, SUI). Nakahara won 7-5 against Lukas Jaeger (Fuessen, GER). Nakahara went on to lose 10-3 against Stefano Gilli (Pinerolo, ITA). Nakahara responded with a 8-6 win over Wesley Wendling (Chaska, USA). Nakahara went on to lose 9-4 against Orrin Carson (Stirling, SCO). Nakahara lost 10-3 to Korea's Daehyeon Kim. Nakahara lost 9-3 to Jacob Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN) where Nakahara responded with a 8-7 win over Kenan Wipf (Calgary, CAN) in their final qualifying round match.

Nakahara earned 1.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 84 spots the World Ranking Standings into 264th place overall with 2.438 total points. Nakahara ranks 263rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.438 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	4	9	0	0.308	1-1	0-5	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	96	46	90	4.79	9.38	-4.58	3.33	5.21	1.44	1.80	1.46

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	54	32	45	8	0-2	2-4	7-5	0.59	0.83	0.20	0.46

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	42	14	45	6	0-1	0-4	3-9	0.33	1.07	0.44	0.26

2026: Caden Hebert
Caden Hebert, Jackson Bestland, Benji Paral, Jack Wendtland, Daniel Laufer, Mike Peplinski
, USA
2025: Lukas Hostmaelingen
Lukas Hostmaelingen, Tinius Haslev Nordbye, Magnus Lilleboe, Eskild Eriksen, Harald Daehlin, Johan Hostmaelingen
, NOR
2024: Lukas Hostmaelingen
Lukas Hostmaelingen, Grunde Buraas, Magnus Lilleboe, Tinius Haslev Nordbye
Oslo, NOR
2023: Xueqing Fei
Xueqing Fei, Tianqi Guan, Zhichao Li, Xingyin Xie, Jianjun Ye, Xiao Ming Xu
Beijing, CHN
2022: James Craik
James Craik, Angus Bryce, Scott Hyslop, Niall Ryder
Stirling, SCO
2020: Jacques Gauthier
Jacques Gauthier, Jordan Peters, Brayden Payette, Zack Bilawka, Thomas Dunlop
Winnipeg, CAN
2019: Tyler Tardi
Tyler Tardi, Sterling Middleton, Matthew Hall, Alex Horvath, Rylan Kleiter
Langley, CAN
2018: Tyler Tardi
Tyler Tardi, Sterling Middleton, Jordan Tardi, Zac Curtis, Jacques Gauthier
Langley, CAN
2017: Kijeong Lee
Kijeong Lee, Kibok Lee, Seunghoon Oh, Won Yeong Choi, Kyung-Ho Woo
Uiseong, KOR
2016: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Duncan Menzies, Bobby Lammie, Gregor Cannon, Robin Brydone
Edinburgh, SCO
2015: Braden Calvert
Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Lucas Van Den Bosch, Brendan Wilson, Colton Lott
Winnipeg, CAN
2014: Yannick Schwaller
Reto Keller, Yannick Schwaller, Patrick Witschonke, Michael Probst, Romano Keller-Meier
Bern, SUI
2012: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Evan Asmussen, Landon Bucholz, Bryce Bucholz, Parker Konschuh
Edmonton, CAN
2011: Oskar Eriksson
Kristian Lindstroem, Oskar Eriksson, Henrik Leek, Alexander Lindstroem, Christoffer Sundgren
Ostersund, SWE