China-Japan Agon Cup

The China-Japan Agon Cup is a Go competition.

Outline

The China-Japan Agon Cup is a single-game match held each year between the winner of the Agon Kiriyama Cup in Japan and the Ahan Tongshan Cup in China. It is sponsored by Agon Shu. As of 2021, the winner's prize is 5 million yen, and the runner-up's prize is 2 million yen.^[1]

Past winners and runners-up

Edition	Year	Winner	Runner-up
1st	1999	Kobayashi Kōichi	Ma Xiaochun
2nd	2000	Cho Sonjin	Zhou Heyang
3rd	2001	Cho Sonjin	Liu Jing
4th	2002	Cho Chikun	Yu Bin
5th	2003	Gu Li	Kato Masao
6th	2004	Zhou Heyang	Hane Naoki
7th	2005	Gu Li	Iyama Yuta
8th	2006	Liu Xing	Cho U
9th	2007	Liu Xing	Cho U
10th	2008	Gu Li	Cho U
11th	2009	Sun Tengyu	Hane Naoki
12th	2010	Qiu Jun	Yamashita Keigo
13th	2011	Piao Wenyao	Iyama Yuta
14th	2012	Gu Li	Cho U
15th	2013	Lian Xiao	Murakawa Daisuke
16th	2014	Ke Jie	Iyama Yuta
17th	2015	Iyama Yuta	Huang Yunsong
18th	2016	Ke Jie	Kono Rin
19th	2017	Tuo Jiaxi	Mutsuura Yuta
20th	2018^[2]	Gu Zihao	Ichiriki Ryo
21st	2019^[3]	Cho U	Fan Tingyu
22nd	2021^[4]^[1]	Gu Zihao	Hsu Chia-yuan
23rd	2022^[5]^[6]	Li Qincheng	Hirata Tomoya
24th	2024^[7]	Yang Dingxin	Ichiriki Ryo