Karuizawa International Curling Championships

Curling competition
Karuizawa International Curling Championships
OrganizerSports Community Karuizawa Club
Established1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Host cityKaruizawa, Japan
ArenaKaruizawa Ice Park
Websitekaruizawa-icurling.jp
Men's purse¥ 1,500,000
Women's purse¥ 1,500,000
Current champions (2023)
MenCanada Brad Gushue
WomenNagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa
Current edition

The Karuizawa International Curling Championships is a curling bonspiel held annually since the Olympic Games in Nagano at the SCAP Karuizawa Arena in Kariuzawa, Japan. The bonspiel is held to commemorate the curling event at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, the first official curling event in the Olympic programme since the 1924 Winter Olympics. It is also held to help promote curling throughout Japan.[1] The event became a World Curling Tour event in 2014.

Format

Current format

A total of 24 teams (12 men's and 12 women's teams) are invited each year to participate in the championship. The teams play a two-pool round robin tournament with games of eight ends, and the top six teams of each gender play eight-end games in the final round.[1]

Previous format

Prior to 2013, a total of 16 teams (8 men's and 8 women's teams) were invited each year to participate in the championship. Five teams of each gender were chosen from foreign nations based on performances at the most recent World Curling Championships, while three teams were chosen from within Japan. The teams were chosen as follows:

Men's Women's
5 Foreign Teams
 Japan National Team
 Japan Selection Team[a]
 Nagano Selection Team[a]

The eight teams of each gender played a round robin tournament with games of eight ends, and the top four teams of each gender played ten-end games in the final round.

Champions (1999-2009)

Year Men's winner Women's winner
1999 Canada Bob Turcotte Canada Cathy Borst
2000 Japan Makoto Tsuruga Canada Sherry Fraser
2001 Finland Markku Uusipaavalniemi Canada Nancy Smith
2002 Canada Greg Monkman Sweden Margaretha Lindahl
2003 United States Paul Pustovar Switzerland Manuela Kormann
2004 Canada Brian Gessner Canada Cheryl Bernard
2005 Canada Pat Simmons Japan Moe Meguro
2006 Canada Ryan Fry Canada Crystal Rumberg
2007 United States Craig Disher Canada Jo-Ann Rizzo
2008 Canada Joel Jordison Japan Yukako Tsuchiya
2009 Canada Bob Ursel Switzerland Manuela Kormann

Past Champions (since 2010)

Year Winning skip Runner-up skip
2010[2]  Canada (Chris Busby)  Japan (Yusuke Morozumi)
 Canada (Hollie Nicol)  Sweden (Stina Viktorsson)
2011  Japan (Yusuke Morozumi)  United States (Tyler George)
 Canada (Jennifer Jones)  Japan (Satsuki Fujisawa)
2012  Japan Selection (Yusuke Morozumi)  Canada (Colin Thomas)
 Canada (Laura Crocker)  Switzerland (Silvana Tirinzoni)
2013 South Korea Kim Chang-min Yusuke Morozumi
Switzerland Binia Feltscher-Beeli Ayumi Ogasawara
2014 Canada Kevin Koe South Korea Seong Se-hyeon
Canada Jennifer Jones South Korea Kim Eun-jung
2015 Scotland David Murdoch Canada Pat Simmons
Ayumi Ogasawara Satsuki Fujisawa
2016 Scotland Tom Brewster Scotland David Murdoch
South Korea Gim Un-chi Sweden Margaretha Sigfridsson
2017 Yusuke Morozumi South Korea Kim Chang-min
Satsuki Fujisawa Chiaki Matsumura
2018 Canada Reid Carruthers Yuta Matsumura
Russia Anna Sidorova Sayaka Yoshimura
2019[3][4] Yuta Matsumura Sweden Niklas Edin
Russia Anna Sidorova Satsuki Fujisawa
2020–2021 Cancelled
2022[5][6] Riku Yanagisawa Yusuke Morozumi
South Korea Kim Eun-jung Canada Kerri Einarson
2023[7][8] Canada Brad Gushue Hokkaido Hayato Sato
Nagano Prefecture Ikue Kitazawa South Korea Kim Eun-jung

Notes

  1. ^ a b Selection teams recommended by Japan Curling Association

References

  1. ^ a b "Karuizawa International Curling Championship – Event information". Karuizawa Curling Club. Archived from the original on 24 July 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Double Gold! Canada sweeps at Karuizawa International Curling Championship". Canadian Curling Association. 10 March 2010.
  3. ^ "2019 Karuizawa International - Men's". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
  4. ^ "2019 Karuizawa International - Women's". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
  5. ^ "2022 Karuizawa International - Men's". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
  6. ^ "2022 Karuizawa International - Women's". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
  7. ^ "2023 Karuizawa International - Men's". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
  8. ^ "2023 Karuizawa International - Women's". CurlingZone. Retrieved November 28, 2023.

External links

  • Karuizawa CC Homepage
  • Official website