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2023 Karuizawa International Curling Championships

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]

2023 Karuizawa International
Curling Championship
Host cityKaruizawa, Japan
ArenaKaruizawa Ice Park
DatesDecember 1–3
Men's winnerCanada Team Gushue
Curling clubSt. John's CC, St. John's,
Newfoundland and Labrador
SkipBrad Gushue
ThirdMark Nichols
SecondE. J. Harnden
LeadGeoff Walker
CoachCaleb Flaxey
FinalistHokkaido Hayato Sato
Women's winnerNagano Prefecture Team Kitazawa
Curling clubKaruizawa CC, Karuizawa
SkipIkue Kitazawa
ThirdSeina Nakajima
SecondAmi Enami
LeadMinori Suzuki
AlternateHasumi Ishigooka
CoachYusuke Morozumi
FinalistSouth Korea Kim Eun-jung
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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

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Teams

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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

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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

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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 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Teams

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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

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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

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

Draw 1

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

References

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  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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