Curling competition at Karuizawa, Japan
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.
The teams are listed as follows:[5] [6]
Round robin standings [ edit ] Final Round Robin Standings [7]
Pool B W L PF PA 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 [ edit ] All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00 ).[8] [9]
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
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
Friday, December 1, 5:00 pm
Saturday, December 2, 9:00 am
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
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
Playoffs [ edit ] Source:[10]
Semifinals [ edit ] 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
Third place game [ edit ] Sunday, December 3, 9:00 am
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
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 [ edit ] Final Round Robin Standings [12]
Round robin results [ edit ] All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00 ).[9] [13]
Friday, December 1, 9:00 am
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
Friday, December 1, 1:00 pm
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
Friday, December 1, 5:00 pm
Saturday, December 2, 9:00 am
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
Saturday, December 2, 1:00 pm
Playoffs [ edit ] Source:[14]
Semifinals [ edit ] Saturday, December 2, 5:00 pm
Third place game [ edit ] Sunday, December 3, 9:00 am
Sunday, December 3, 1:00 pm
^ As skip Sayaka Yoshimura was on maternity leave, the rest of the team moved up the lineup a position. References [ edit ] ^ "Karuizawa International Curling Championships" . Karuizawa International Curling Championships . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Men's Event" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Women's Event" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Past Champions" . Karuizawa International Curling Championships . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Men's Teams" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ a b "Teams List" . Karuizawa International Curling Championships . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Men's Standings" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Men's Scores" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ a b "Draw Schedule" . Karuizawa International Curling Championships . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Men's Playoffs" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Women's Teams" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Women's Standings" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Women's Scores" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . ^ "Women's Playoffs" . CurlingZone . Retrieved November 27, 2023 . External links [ edit ]