2022 Karuizawa International Curling Championships

The 2022 Karuizawa International Curling Championships were held from December 16 to 18 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] It was the first time the event has been held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic cancelling both the 2020 and 2021 editions.[4]

2022 Karuizawa International
Curling Championships
Host cityKaruizawa, Japan
ArenaKaruizawa Ice Park
DatesDecember 16–18
Men's winnerJapan Team Yanagisawa
Curling clubKaruizawa CC, Karuizawa, Nagano
SkipRiku Yanagisawa
ThirdTsuyoshi Yamaguchi
SecondTakeru Yamamoto
LeadSatoshi Koizumi
AlternateKonosuke Takahashi
CoachYuji Nishimuro
FinalistJapan Yusuke Morozumi
Women's winnerSouth Korea Team Kim
Curling clubGangneung CC, Gangneung
SkipKim Eun-jung
ThirdKim Kyeong-ae
SecondKim Cho-hi
LeadKim Seon-yeong
AlternateKim Yeong-mi
CoachLim Myung-sup
FinalistCanada Kerri Einarson
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Teams

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

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Kohsuke Hirata Shingo Usui Ryota Meguro Yoshiya Miura Kosuke Aita   Kitami, Japan
Hiroyuki Honda Tomohiro Akita Ryuta Numabe Motohiro Goto Ryu Yamamura   Kitami, Japan
Jeong Byeong-jin Lee Jeong-jae Kim Min-woo Kim Tae-hwan   Seoul, South Korea
Kim Soo-hyuk (Fourth) Kim Chang-min (Skip) Jeon Jae-ik Kim Hak-kyun Seong Se-hyeon   Uiseong, South Korea
Yusuke Morozumi Yuta Matsumura Ryotaro Shukuya Kosuke Morozumi Masaki Iwai   Karuizawa, Japan
Go Aoki (Fourth) Hayato Sato (Skip) Koki Ogiwara Kazushi Nino Ayato Sasaki   Sapporo, Japan
John Shuster Chris Plys Matt Hamilton John Landsteiner Colin Hufman   Duluth, Minnesota
Riku Yanagisawa Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi Konosuke Takahashi   Karuizawa, Japan

Round-robin standings

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Final round-robin standings[7]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L PF PA DSC
  John Shuster 3 0 23 8 40.27
  Yusuke Morozumi 2 1 20 12 36.20
  Jeong Byeong-jin 1 2 18 16 76.90
  Hiroyuki Honda 0 3 4 29 83.65
Pool B W L PF PA DSC
  Kohsuke Hirata 2 1 21 20 53.22
  Riku Yanagisawa 2 1 21 12 61.05
  Hayato Sato 2 1 17 16 109.45
  Kim Chang-min 0 3 13 24 96.13

Round-robin results

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

Draw 1

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Friday, December 16, 9:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kohsuke Hirata   1 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 6
  Hayato Sato 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 2 7
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Riku Yanagisawa   2 0 2 0 2 3 X X 9
  Kim Chang-min 0 1 0 1 0 0 X X 2

Draw 2

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Friday, December 16, 1:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Yusuke Morozumi   2 2 0 2 1 2 X X 9
  Hiroyuki Honda 0 0 1 0 0 0 X X 1
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Jeong Byeong-jin   0 2 0 1 0 0 1 X 4
  John Shuster 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 X 6

Draw 3

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Friday, December 16, 6:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Kim Chang-min   2 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 6
  Kohsuke Hirata 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 7
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Hayato Sato 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 X 2
  Riku Yanagisawa   0 2 0 0 2 1 0 X 5
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  John Shuster   2 2 0 0 3 3 X X 10
  Hiroyuki Honda 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Jeong Byeong-jin 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 X 4
  Yusuke Morozumi   0 0 0 4 1 1 2 X 8

Draw 4

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Saturday, December 17, 9:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Hiroyuki Honda   0 1 0 1 0 X X X 2
  Jeong Byeong-jin 2 0 5 0 3 X X X 10
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kim Chang-min 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 X 5
  Hayato Sato   0 0 0 4 0 4 0 X 8

Draw 5

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Saturday, December 17, 1:30 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Riku Yanagisawa   1 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 7
  Kohsuke Hirata 0 2 0 3 0 0 2 0 1 8
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  John Shuster   1 1 1 0 4 0 X X 7
  Yusuke Morozumi 0 0 0 2 0 1 X X 3

Playoffs

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Source:[10]

Semifinals Final
      
A1   John Shuster 3
B2   Riku Yanagisawa 10
B2   Riku Yanagisawa 5
A2   Yusuke Morozumi 4
B1   Kohsuke Hirata 4
A2   Yusuke Morozumi 5 Bronze medal game
A1   John Shuster 7
B1   Kohsuke Hirata 3

Semifinals

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Saturday, December 17, 6:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kohsuke Hirata 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 4
  Yusuke Morozumi   1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  John Shuster 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 X 3
  Riku Yanagisawa   2 0 2 0 2 0 4 X 10

Third place game

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Sunday, December 18, 9:00 am

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  John Shuster 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 X 7
  Kohsuke Hirata   1 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 3

Final

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Sunday, December 18, 1:30 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Riku Yanagisawa 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 5
  Yusuke Morozumi   0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 4

Women

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Teams

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

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Kerri Einarson Val Sweeting Shannon Birchard Briane Harris   Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida   Kitami, Japan
Asuka Kanai Ami Enami Junko Nishimuro Mone Ryokawa   Karuizawa, Japan
Kim Eun-jung Kim Kyeong-ae Kim Cho-hi Kim Seon-yeong Kim Yeong-mi   Gangneung, South Korea
Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Chiaki Matsumura   Nagano, Japan
Honoka Sasaki Mari Motohashi Miki Hayashi Ayuna Aoki Mayumi Saito   Kitami, Japan
Momoha Tabata Miku Nihira Mikoto Nakajima Ayami Ito   Sapporo, Japan
Sayaka Yoshimura Yuna Kotani Kaho Onodera Anna Ohmiya Yumie Funayama   Sapporo, Japan

Round-robin standings

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Final round-robin standings[12]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L PF PA DSC
  Kerri Einarson 2 1 20 17 97.55
  Sayaka Yoshimura 2 1 18 13 86.27
  Honoka Sasaki 1 2 19 22 35.33
  Ikue Kitazawa 1 2 18 23 70.37
Pool B W L PF PA DSC
  Kim Eun-jung 2 1 18 13 39.05
  Satsuki Fujisawa 2 1 17 12 63.23
  Momoha Tabata 2 1 16 16 80.17
  Asuka Kanai 0 3 13 23 98.15

Round-robin results

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

Draw 1

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Friday, December 16, 9:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Sayaka Yoshimura   0 2 0 0 3 1 0 X 6
  Honoka Sasaki 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Kerri Einarson 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 5
  Ikue Kitazawa   1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 7
Player percentages
  Team Einarson   Team Kitazawa
Briane Harris 74% Hasumi Ishigooka 83%
Shannon Birchard 64% Minori Suzuki 65%
Val Sweeting 82% Seina Nakajima 67%
Kerri Einarson 59% Ikue Kitazawa 85%
Total 70% Total 75%
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Satsuki Fujisawa 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 6
  Asuka Kanai   1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3

Draw 2

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Friday, December 16, 1:30 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kim Eun-jung   0 1 0 2 0 1 1 X 5
  Momoha Tabata 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 X 3
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Sayaka Yoshimura 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 X 3
  Kerri Einarson   0 2 0 1 2 0 1 X 6
Player percentages
  Team Yoshimura   Team Einarson
Anna Ohmiya 78% Briane Harris 80%
Kaho Onodera 83% Shannon Birchard 81%
Yuna Kotani 66% Val Sweeting 75%
Sayaka Yoshimura 68% Kerri Einarson 80%
Total 74% Total 79%
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Ikue Kitazawa 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 7
  Honoka Sasaki   1 0 2 0 3 0 2 1 9

Draw 3

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Friday, December 16, 6:00 pm

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Satsuki Fujisawa 0 1 1 0 3 1 0 X 6
  Kim Eun-jung   0 0 0 2 0 0 1 X 3
Player percentages
  Team Fujisawa   Team Kim
Yurika Yoshida 86% Kim Seon-yeong 77%
Yumi Suzuki 81% Kim Cho-hi 84%
Chinami Yoshida 88% Kim Kyeong-ae 64%
Satsuki Fujisawa 97% Kim Eun-jung 63%
Total 88% Total 72%

Draw 4

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Saturday, December 17, 9:00 am

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Asuka Kanai 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 6
  Momoha Tabata   2 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 7
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Sayaka Yoshimura 0 1 1 1 0 3 3 X 9
  Ikue Kitazawa   2 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 4

Draw 5

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Saturday, December 17, 1:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Honoka Sasaki   2 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 7
  Kerri Einarson 0 0 2 2 0 1 2 0 2 9
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Momoha Tabata 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 6
  Satsuki Fujisawa   1 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kim Eun-jung   0 4 0 2 0 4 X X 10
  Asuka Kanai 2 0 1 0 1 0 X X 4

Playoffs

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Source:[14]

Semifinals Final
      
A1   Kerri Einarson 4
B2   Satsuki Fujisawa 3
A1   Kerri Einarson 4
B1   Kim Eun-jung 5
B1   Kim Eun-jung 7
A2   Sayaka Yoshimura 5 Bronze medal game
B2   Satsuki Fujisawa 4
A2   Sayaka Yoshimura 7

Semifinals

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Saturday, December 17, 6:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kim Eun-jung   0 0 1 0 2 3 0 1 7
  Sayaka Yoshimura 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 5
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Kerri Einarson   0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 4
  Satsuki Fujisawa 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 3

Third place game

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Sunday, December 18, 9:00 am

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Satsuki Fujisawa   1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 4
  Sayaka Yoshimura 0 2 0 0 1 2 1 1 7

Final

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Sunday, December 18, 6:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kerri Einarson   0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 4
  Kim Eun-jung 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 5
Player percentages
  Team Einarson   Team Kim
Briane Harris 84% Kim Seon-yeong 92%
Shannon Birchard 86% Kim Cho-hi 91%
Val Sweeting 84% Kim Kyeong-ae 88%
Kerri Einarson 70% Kim Eun-jung 86%
Total 81% Total 89%

References

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  1. ^ "Karuizawa International Curling Championships". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  2. ^ "Men's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  3. ^ "Women's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  4. ^ "Past Champions". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  5. ^ "Men's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Teams List". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Archived from the original on March 11, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  7. ^ "Men's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  8. ^ "Men's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  9. ^ a b "Draw Schedule". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  10. ^ "Men's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  11. ^ "Women's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  12. ^ "Women's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  13. ^ "Women's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  14. ^ "Women's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
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