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] ¥ 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
3
0
21
12
90.33
Niklas Edin 2
1
26
16
21.17
1
2
15
22
86.03
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
0
3
0
3
0
2
1
X
9
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
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
1
1
0
3
1
0
0
X
6
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
0
0
1
0
0
3
1
1
6
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
3
Sheet F
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Final
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
0
0
1
0
2
X
X
X
3
Source:[ 10]
Saturday, December 2, 5:00 pm
Sheet E
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Final
0
2
1
1
0
1
0
X
5
Yusuke Morozumi
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
X
2
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
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
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
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
3
0
1
1
0
2
0
0
0
7
Saturday, December 2, 1:00 pm
Source:[ 14]
Saturday, December 2, 5:00 pm
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.
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Team Gushue
Hayato Sato
Team Kitazawa
Kim Eun-jung
Karlstad, Sweden
Aomori, Japan
Sendai, Japan
