The Ice Gold Cup is an annual tournament on the men's World Curling Tour. It is held annually in May at Curlplex Obihiro in Obihiro, Japan.[1]

Ice Gold Cup
Established2018
Host cityObihiro, Japan
ArenaCurlplex Obihiro
Websitewww.obihirocurling.com
Men's purse¥ 500,000
Women's purse¥ 950,000
Current champions (2024)
MenHokkaido Toshiya Iida
WomenHokkaido Miku Nihira

The purse for the event is ¥ 1,000,000. Its event classification is 200.[1]

The event has been held since 2018, when it was held at the beginning of the season in September. It was added to the World Curling Tour in 2019. The 2021 and 2022 events were not on the tour. A women's event was added in 2024.

Men's champions

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Year Winning team Runner up team Winner's share (¥)
2018[2]   Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui (skip), Daiki Shikano, Yoshiya Miura   Akira Otsuka, Tomoya Watanabe (skip), Naoki Kaneko, Hiromasa Yamamoto ¥500,000[3]
2019[4]   Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui (skip), Yoshiya Miura, Sota Jutori   Kantaro Kawano, Kazaki Matsuoka, Hiroki Hasegawa, Yusuke Yamashita ¥500,000
2021[a][5]   Kazuki Matsuoka, Kantarou Kohno, Sota Akiyama, Shun Takahashi[6]   Kenji Takamatsu, Naomasa Takeda, Hiroshi Nisato, Yutaro Kasai, Tatsuya Yokota[7]
2022[b][8]   Souta Tsuruga, Takuto Ouchi, Haruto Ouchi, Naoki Kanazawa, Ryo Aoki[9]   Shun Takahashi, Kazuki Matsuoka, Kantarou Kohno, Takuo Saokawa[10]
2023[11]   Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa   Fukuhiro Ohno, Terry Uyeda, Eito Nakagawa, Asami Ootake ¥300,000
2024[12]   Toshiya Iida, Yuta Fuuse, Akihito Inaba, Kento Nishida   Yusaku Shibatani, Toshiya Matsuda, Fukuhiro Ohno, Shun Sakai ¥500,000

Women's champions

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Year Winning team Runner up team Winner's share (¥)
2024[13]   Momoha Tabata (Fourth), Miku Nihira (Skip), Sae Yamamoto, Mikoto Nakajima   Wakaba Kawamura, Moeko Tanaka, Touko Kanaka, Hasebe Tsuneno ¥950,000

Notes

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  1. ^ 2020 event held in March 2021
  2. ^ 2021 event held in March 2022

References

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  1. ^ a b "WCT-J Ice Gold Cup". World Curling Tour. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
  2. ^ "Obihiro Ice Gold Cup". CurlingZone. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
  3. ^ @ICEGOLDCUP (17 Sep 2018). "ICE GOLD CUP2018 優勝 KiT Curling Club 2位 チーム青葉 3位 北見工業大学 4位 Maple Leafs 5位 北海道大学 6位 チーム帯広" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "Obihiro Ice Gold Cup". CurlingZone. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
  5. ^ @ICEGOLDCUP (28 Mar 2021). "大会結果 🥇優勝  LOHAS 🥈準優勝 晩成カーリングクラブ 🥉3位  北見工業大学 🍌4位  Checkmate" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ @ICEGOLDCUP (25 Mar 2021). "B5 LOHAS(札幌) @LOHAS_facemake 大会参加チーム ●松岡和輝 ● 河野幹太郎 ●秋山颯太 ●高橋駿" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ^ @ICEGOLDCUP (24 Mar 2021). "A3 晩成カーリングクラブ(名寄) 大会出場チーム 左から ● 高松賢司 ●竹田直将 ●似里浩志 ●笠井祐太朗 ● 横田達也" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. ^ @ICEGOLDCUP (27 Mar 2022). "大会結果 🥇優勝  Checkmate札幌 🥈準優勝  LOHAS 🥉3位   レクス 4位    Jewelry Ice 5位    SC軽井沢クラブJr 6位    LOCO STELLA 7位    いしざんまい 8位    NOSH 9位     Lizards 10位 ノーザンライツ" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  9. ^ @ICEGOLDCUP (21 Mar 2022). "参加チーム B2 ● checkmate札幌(札幌) 敦賀 爽太 大内 拓斗 大内 遙斗 金沢 直輝 青木 亮" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. ^ @ICEGOLDCUP (20 Mar 2022). "参加チーム A5 ●LOHAS(札幌) 高橋 駿 松岡 和輝 河野 幹太郎 沙魚川 拓生" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  11. ^ "Obihiro Ice Gold Cup". CurlingZone. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
  12. ^ "Obihiro ICE Gold Cup 2024". CurlingZone. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
  13. ^ "Obihiro ICE Gold Cup 2024". CurlingZone. Retrieved June 9, 2024.