2023 Karuizawa International Curling Championships

2023 Karuizawa International
Curling Championships
Host cityKaruizawa, Japan
ArenaKaruizawa Ice Park
DatesDecember 1–3
Men's winner Team Gushue
Curling clubSt. John's CC, St. John's,
Newfoundland and Labrador
SkipBrad Gushue
ThirdMark Nichols
SecondE. J. Harnden
LeadGeoff Walker
CoachCaleb Flaxey
Finalist Hayato Sato
Women's winner Team Kitazawa
Curling clubKaruizawa CC, Karuizawa
SkipIkue Kitazawa
ThirdSeina Nakajima
SecondAmi Enami
LeadMinori Suzuki
AlternateHasumi Ishigooka
CoachYusuke Morozumi
Finalist Kim Eun-jung
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The 2023 Karuizawa International Curling Championships were held from December 1 to 3 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan.[1] The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,500,000 on both the men's and women's sides.[2][3]

The 2023 event featured five previous champion skips: Yusuke Morozumi (2011, 2012 & 2017), Jennifer Jones (2011 & 2014), Kim Chang-min (2014), Yuta Matsumura (2019) and Kim Eun-jung (2022). Kaitlyn Lawes who won both championships with Jones returned skipping her own team.[4]

In the men's final, Brad Gushue and his Canadian championship team of Mark Nichols, E. J. Harnden and Geoff Walker capped off an undefeated run by defeating Sapporo International University's Hayato Sato 7–1. The team from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador dominated the championship game, getting out to an early three-point lead and stealing two in the seventh end to secure the win. Niklas Edin took third in the men's division with a 9–3 thrashing of Karuizawa's Yusuke Morozumi.

In the women's final, Chubu Electric Power snapped the ten-game win streak of South Korea's Kim Eun-jung to win their first tour event of the 2023–24 season. The team, including skip Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Ami Enami, Minori Suzuki and Hasumi Ishigooka took control of the final game with three in the fourth end and held on for a 7–6 victory. Canada's Kaitlyn Lawes won 7–4 over Team Yoshimura, skipped by Yuna Kotani, to take third. Surprisingly, the top ranked team coming into the event, Team Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, went winless in their three games.

Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:[5][6]

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Niklas Edin Oskar Eriksson Rasmus Wranå Christoffer Sundgren Karlstad, Sweden
Brad Gushue Mark Nichols E. J. Harnden Geoff Walker St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Kohsuke Hirata Shingo Usui Ryota Meguro Yoshiya Miura Kosuke Aita Kitami, Japan
Juon Ishimura (Fourth) Youn Ishimura (Skip) Yuto Nakagawa Shunki Kudo Kuya Kawamura Aomori, Japan
Kim Soo-hyuk (Fourth) Kim Chang-min (Skip) Kim Hak-kyun Jeon Jae-ik Uiseong, South Korea
Yusuke Morozumi Yuta Matsumura Ryotaro Shukuya Masaki Iwai Kosuke Morozumi Karuizawa, Japan
Kotaro Noguchi Yuto Kamada Hiroshi Kato Yuki Yoshimura Hiromasa Yonehara Sendai, Japan
Go Aoki (Fourth) Hayato Sato (Skip) Kouki Ogiwara Kazushi Nino Ayato Sasaki Sapporo, Japan

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings[7]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L PF PA DSC
Brad Gushue 3 0 22 8 65.68
Yusuke Morozumi 1 2 19 17 14.13
Kim Chang-min 1 2 9 19 89.05
Kohsuke Hirata 1 2 14 20 112.43
Pool B W L PF PA DSC
Hayato Sato 3 0 21 12 90.33
Niklas Edin 2 1 26 16 21.17
Kotaro Noguchi 1 2 15 22 86.03
Youn Ishimura 0 3 12 24 79.03

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[8][9]

Draw 1

Friday, December 1, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kotaro Noguchi 0 3 0 3 0 2 1 X 9
Youn Ishimura 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 X 5
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Niklas Edin 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 X 6
Hayato Sato 0 1 0 3 0 3 2 X 9
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kim Chang-min 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 2
Brad Gushue 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 X 6

Draw 2

Friday, December 1, 1:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hayato Sato 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 X 6
Youn Ishimura 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 X 3
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Yusuke Morozumi 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 5
Kim Chang-min 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 6

Draw 3

Friday, December 1, 5:00 pm

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Brad Gushue 3 2 0 2 1 1 X X 9
Kohsuke Hirata 0 0 2 0 0 0 X X 2

Draw 4

Saturday, December 2, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Yusuke Morozumi 1 0 5 2 0 2 X X 10
Kohsuke Hirata 0 3 0 0 1 0 X X 4
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hayato Sato 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 6
Kotaro Noguchi 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Youn Ishimura 1 0 0 1 0 2 X X 4
Niklas Edin 0 2 3 0 4 0 X X 9

Draw 5

Saturday, December 2, 1:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Niklas Edin 4 3 0 4 0 X X X 11
Kotaro Noguchi 0 0 1 0 2 X X X 3
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kohsuke Hirata 0 1 0 3 4 X X X 8
Kim Chang-min 0 0 1 0 0 X X X 1
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Brad Gushue 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 X 7
Yusuke Morozumi 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 4

Playoffs

Source:[10]

Semifinals Final
      
A1 Brad Gushue 6
B2 Niklas Edin 4
A1 Brad Gushue 7
B1 Hayato Sato 1
B1 Hayato Sato 5
A2 Yusuke Morozumi 2 Bronze medal game
B2 Niklas Edin 9
A2 Yusuke Morozumi 3

Semifinals

Saturday, December 2, 5:00 pm

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Hayato Sato 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 X 5
Yusuke Morozumi 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 X 2
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Brad Gushue 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 6
Niklas Edin 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 4

Third place game

Sunday, December 3, 9:00 am

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Niklas Edin 1 0 3 0 3 2 X X 9
Yusuke Morozumi 0 1 0 2 0 0 X X 3

Final

Sunday, December 3, 1:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Brad Gushue 0 0 1 2 0 2 2 X 7
Hayato Sato 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1

Women

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:[6][11]

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Jennifer Jones Karlee Burgess Emily Zacharias Lauren Lenentine Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Kim Eun-jung Kim Kyeong-ae Kim Cho-hi Kim Seon-yeong Kim Yeong-mi Gangneung, South Korea
Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Ami Enami Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Nagano, Japan
Kaitlyn Lawes Selena Njegovan Jocelyn Peterman Kristin MacCuish Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Park Yu-bin Lee Eun-chae Yang Seung-hee Kim Ji-yoon Seoul, South Korea
Honoka Sasaki Mari Motohashi Miki Hayashi Mayumi Saito Yako Matsuzawa Kitami, Japan
Miyu Ueno Asuka Kanai Junko Nishimuro Yui Ueno Mone Ryokawa Karuizawa, Japan
Yuna Kotani[a] Kaho Onodera Anna Ohmiya Mina Kobayashi Sapporo, Japan

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings[12]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L PF PA DSC
Kim Eun-jung 3 0 25 7 72.47
Ikue Kitazawa 2 1 21 21 63.43
Honoka Sasaki 1 2 16 27 82.35
Jennifer Jones 0 3 15 22 31.70
Pool B W L PF PA DSC
Kaitlyn Lawes 3 0 19 10 49.32
Team Yoshimura 2 1 19 13 59.88
Miyu Ueno 1 2 15 14 41.28
Park Yu-bin 0 3 7 23 98.52

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[9][13]

Draw 1

Friday, December 1, 9:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kaitlyn Lawes 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 6
Miyu Ueno 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 5
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kim Eun-jung 0 2 0 0 4 5 X X 11
Honoka Sasaki 0 0 0 2 0 0 X X 2

Draw 2

Friday, December 1, 1:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Team Yoshimura 0 4 0 2 0 0 3 X 9
Park Yu-bin 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 X 4
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kim Eun-jung 3 1 1 0 3 0 X X 8
Ikue Kitazawa 0 0 0 1 0 1 X X 2
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Honoka Sasaki 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 7
Jennifer Jones 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 6

Draw 3

Friday, December 1, 5:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Jennifer Jones 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 6
Ikue Kitazawa 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 3 9
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kaitlyn Lawes 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 6
Team Yoshimura 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 4
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Miyu Ueno 0 0 1 2 2 0 2 X 7
Park Yu-bin 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 X 2

Draw 4

Saturday, December 2, 9:00 am

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Jennifer Jones 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 X 3
Kim Eun-jung 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 X 6
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Ikue Kitazawa 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 1 3 10
Honoka Sasaki 3 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 7

Draw 5

Saturday, December 2, 1:00 pm

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Team Yoshimura 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 X 6
Miyu Ueno 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 X 3
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Park Yu-bin 0 0 1 0 0 0 X X 1
Kaitlyn Lawes 2 0 0 3 1 1 X X 7

Playoffs

Source:[14]

Semifinals Final
      
A1 Kim Eun-jung 6
B2 Team Yoshimura 2
A1 Kim Eun-jung 6
A2 Ikue Kitazawa 7
B1 Kaitlyn Lawes 2
A2 Ikue Kitazawa 7 Bronze medal game
B2 Team Yoshimura 4
B1 Kaitlyn Lawes 7

Semifinals

Saturday, December 2, 5:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kim Eun-jung 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 X 6
Team Yoshimura 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 X 2
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kaitlyn Lawes 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 X 2
Ikue Kitazawa 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 X 7

Third place game

Sunday, December 3, 9:00 am

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Team Yoshimura 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 X 4
Kaitlyn Lawes 1 0 2 2 0 2 0 X 7

Final

Sunday, December 3, 1:00 pm

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Kim Eun-jung 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 6
Ikue Kitazawa 1 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 7

Notes

  1. ^ As skip Sayaka Yoshimura was on maternity leave, the rest of the team moved up the lineup a position.

References

  1. ^ "Karuizawa International Curling Championships". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  2. ^ "Men's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  3. ^ "Women's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  4. ^ "Past Champions". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  5. ^ "Men's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Teams List". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  7. ^ "Men's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  8. ^ "Men's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  9. ^ a b "Draw Schedule". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  10. ^ "Men's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  11. ^ "Women's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  12. ^ "Women's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  13. ^ "Women's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  14. ^ "Women's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
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