2024 Karuizawa International Curling Championships

2024 Karuizawa International
Curling Championships
Host cityKaruizawa, Japan
ArenaKaruizawa Ice Park
DatesDecember 13–15
Men's winnerGermany Team Muskatewitz
Curling clubCC Füssen, Füssen
SkipMarc Muskatewitz
ThirdBenjamin Kapp
SecondFelix Messenzehl
LeadJohannes Scheuerl
AlternateMario Trevisiol
CoachRyan Sherrard
FinalistJapan Team Yanagisawa
Women's winnerJapan Team Yoshimura
Curling clubSapporo CC, Sapporo
SkipSayaka Yoshimura
ThirdKaho Onodera
SecondYuna Kotani
LeadAnna Ohmiya
AlternateMina Kobayashi
CoachYumie Funayama
FinalistSweden Anna Hasselborg
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The 2024 Karuizawa International Curling Championships were held from December 13 to 15 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]

In the men's final, Germany's Marc Muskatewitz capped off an undefeated run by downing Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, skipping Team Riku Yanagisawa, 10–4 in the championship game. It was a second title for the German rink of Muskatewitz, Benjamin Kapp, Felix Messenzehl, Johannes Scheuerl and Mario Trevisiol who also won the 2024 European Curling Championships the month prior. After opening with a count of two, the Germans got four in the fifth end and three in the seventh end while Yanagisawa could only count two singles and a pair across the seven ends played. Muskatewitz became the fourth men's skip from Europe to win the event following Markku Uusipaavalniemi (2001), David Murdoch (2015) and Tom Brewster (2016). Switzerland's Michael Brunner took third place with a 7–3 win over Sapporo's Shinya Abe. Both Italy's Joël Retornaz and Sweden's Niklas Edin, two of the three highest ranked teams entering the event, missed the playoffs in a shocking result.

In the women's final, Sapporo's Sayaka Yoshimura scored three in the eighth end to defeat Sweden's Anna Hasselborg 5–4. Facing one on her last rock, Hasselborg tried to pick the lone Yoshimura stone out of the rings but rubbed her own rock in the top twelve, doubling out her own counters instead.[4] It was a second title at the event for Yoshimura who also won in 2015 as part of the Ayumi Ogasawara rink. The previous two years, her team of Kaho Onodera, Yuna Kotani, Anna Ohmiya and Mina Kobayashi reached the playoffs but lost in the semifinal to Kim Eun-jung. It was the teams second tour win of the year after winning the ADVICS Cup in August. In the third-place game, Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni avenged her round robin loss against Miyu Ueno by defeating the Japanese team 5–3. Canada's Selena Sturmay and defending champion Ikue Kitazawa both missed the playoffs.

Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:[5][6]

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) Shinya Abe (Skip) Hayato Sato Haruto Ouchi Sota Tsuruga Japan Sapporo, Japan
Michael Brunner Anthony Petoud Romano Meier Andreas Gerlach Switzerland Bern, Switzerland
Niklas Edin Oskar Eriksson Rasmus Wranå Christoffer Sundgren Sweden Karlstad, Sweden
Takumi Maeda Asei Nakahara Hiroki Maeda Uryu Kamikawa Ryoji Onodera Japan Kitami, Japan
Yusuke Morozumi Yuta Matsumura Ryotaro Shukuya Masaki Iwai Kosuke Morozumi Japan Karuizawa, Japan
Marc Muskatewitz Benjamin Kapp Felix Messenzehl Johannes Scheuerl Mario Trevisiol Germany Füssen, Germany
Joël Retornaz Amos Mosaner Sebastiano Arman Mattia Giovanella Italy Trentino, Italy
Riku Yanagisawa (Fourth) Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Skip) Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi Japan Karuizawa, Japan

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings[7]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L W–L PF PA
Japan Shinya Abe 2 1 1–0 17 15
Switzerland Michael Brunner 2 1 0–1 16 12
Japan Yusuke Morozumi 1 2 1–0 14 16
Italy Joël Retornaz 1 2 0–1 11 15
Pool B W L W–L PF PA
Germany Marc Muskatewitz 3 0 – 24 9
Japan Team Yanagisawa 2 1 – 17 18
Sweden Niklas Edin 1 2 – 15 20
Japan Takumi Maeda 0 3 – 10 19

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[8][9]

Draw 1

Friday, December 13, 2:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Team Yanagisawa 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 1 7
Japan Takumi Maeda (has hammer) 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Switzerland Michael Brunner (has hammer) 0 2 2 0 2 0 X X 6
Japan Yusuke Morozumi 0 0 0 1 0 1 X X 2
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Shinya Abe 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 3
Italy Joël Retornaz (has hammer) 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5

Draw 2

Friday, December 13, 6:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Germany Marc Muskatewitz 0 2 0 1 0 4 3 X 10
Japan Team Yanagisawa (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 4
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Takumi Maeda 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 X 4
Sweden Niklas Edin (has hammer) 0 0 2 1 4 0 1 X 8

Draw 3

Saturday, December 14, 9:00 am

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Italy Joël Retornaz 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1
Japan Yusuke Morozumi (has hammer) 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 X 6
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Switzerland Michael Brunner (has hammer) 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 4
Japan Shinya Abe 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 5

Draw 4

Saturday, December 14, 1:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Yusuke Morozumi (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 X 6
Japan Shinya Abe 0 2 0 2 2 0 3 X 9
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Italy Joël Retornaz 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 5
Switzerland Michael Brunner (has hammer) 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 6
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Sweden Niklas Edin (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4
Japan Team Yanagisawa 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 6
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Germany Marc Muskatewitz 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 4
Japan Takumi Maeda (has hammer) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Draw 5

Saturday, December 14, 5:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Sweden Niklas Edin 0 1 0 2 0 0 X X 3
Germany Marc Muskatewitz (has hammer) 1 0 2 0 1 6 X X 10

Playoffs

Source:[10]

Semifinals Final
      
A1 Japan Shinya Abe 4
B2 Japan Team Yanagisawa 6
B2 Japan Team Yanagisawa 4
B1 Germany Marc Muskatewitz 10
B1 Germany Marc Muskatewitz 8
A2 Switzerland Michael Brunner 6 Bronze medal game
A1 Japan Shinya Abe 3
A2 Switzerland Michael Brunner 7

Semifinals

Sunday, December 15, 9:00 am

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Shinya Abe (has hammer) 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4
Japan Team Yanagisawa 0 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 6
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Germany Marc Muskatewitz (has hammer) 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 8
Switzerland Michael Brunner 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 6

Third place game

Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Shinya Abe (has hammer) 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 X 3
Switzerland Michael Brunner 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 X 7

Final

Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Team Yanagisawa 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 X 4
Germany Marc Muskatewitz (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 4 0 3 X 10

Women

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:[6][11]

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Anna Hasselborg Sofia Mabergs Agnes Knochenhauer Johanna Heldin[a] Sweden Sundbyberg, Sweden
Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Ami Enami Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Japan Nagano, Japan
Park Yu-bin Lee Eun-chae Kim Ji-yoon Yang Seung-hee South Korea Seoul, South Korea
Selena Sturmay Danielle Schmiemann Dezaray Hawes Paige Papley Canada Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Momoha Tabata (Fourth) Miku Nihira (Skip) Sae Yamamoto Mikoto Nakajima Ayami Ito Japan Sapporo, Japan
Alina Pätz (Fourth) Silvana Tirinzoni (Skip) Carole Howald Selina Witschonke Switzerland Aarau, Switzerland
Miyu Ueno Yui Ueno Junko Nishimuro Asuka Kanai Japan Karuizawa, Japan
Sayaka Yoshimura Kaho Onodera[b] Yuna Kotani[b] Anna Ohmiya Mina Kobayashi Japan Sapporo, Japan

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings[12]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L W–L PF PA
Japan Miyu Ueno 2 1 1–0 15 16
Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni 2 1 0–1 15 13
Japan Team Tabata 1 2 1–0 12 11
Japan Ikue Kitazawa 1 2 0–1 12 14
Pool B W L W–L PF PA
Japan Sayaka Yoshimura 2 1 1–0 19 10
Sweden Anna Hasselborg 2 1 0–1 21 9
Canada Selena Sturmay 1 2 1–0 7 20
South Korea Park Yu-bin 1 2 0–1 12 20

Round robin results

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

Draw 1

Friday, December 13, 2:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 6
Japan Team Tabata 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Sweden Anna Hasselborg (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3
Japan Sayaka Yoshimura 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 6

Draw 2

Friday, December 13, 6:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Team Tabata (has hammer) 0 0 2 0 1 1 3 X 7
Japan Ikue Kitazawa 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Miyu Ueno (has hammer) 1 0 3 0 1 0 4 X 9
Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 X 4
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Canada Selena Sturmay 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 5
South Korea Park Yu-bin (has hammer) 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 4

Draw 3

Saturday, December 14, 9:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
South Korea Park Yu-bin 0 2 0 0 0 0 X X 2
Sweden Anna Hasselborg (has hammer) 2 0 1 2 4 1 X X 10
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Ikue Kitazawa 0 3 0 2 2 2 X X 9
Japan Miyu Ueno (has hammer) 0 0 2 0 0 0 X X 2

Draw 4

Saturday, December 14, 1:00 pm

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Sayaka Yoshimura (has hammer) 2 3 0 2 1 X X X 8
Canada Selena Sturmay 0 0 1 0 0 X X X 1

Draw 5

Saturday, December 14, 5:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Japan Sayaka Yoshimura 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 5
South Korea Park Yu-bin (has hammer) 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 6
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni (has hammer) 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 X 5
Japan Ikue Kitazawa 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 2
Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Team Tabata (has hammer) 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 X 3
Japan Miyu Ueno 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 X 4
Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Sweden Anna Hasselborg (has hammer) 1 1 1 4 0 1 X X 8
Canada Selena Sturmay 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1

Playoffs

Source:[14]

Semifinals Final
      
A1 Japan Miyu Ueno 4
B2 Sweden Anna Hasselborg 6
B2 Sweden Anna Hasselborg 4
B1 Japan Sayaka Yoshimura 5
B1 Japan Sayaka Yoshimura 8
A2 Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni 3 Bronze medal game
A1 Japan Miyu Ueno 3
A2 Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni 5

Semifinals

Sunday, December 15, 9:00 am

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Sayaka Yoshimura (has hammer) 2 0 0 2 0 4 X X 8
Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni 0 0 2 0 1 0 X X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Miyu Ueno 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 4
Sweden Anna Hasselborg (has hammer) 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 1 6

Third place game

Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm

Sheet F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Miyu Ueno 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 3
Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni (has hammer) 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 5

Final

Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm

Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Sweden Anna Hasselborg 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 4
Japan Sayaka Yoshimura (has hammer) 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 5

Notes

  1. ^ Johanna Heldin spared for Sara McManus. She played lead while lead Sofia Mabergs moved up to third.
  2. ^ a b Kaho Onodera and Yuna Kotani switched positions for the event.

References

  1. ^ "Karuizawa International Curling Championships". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  2. ^ "Men's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  3. ^ "Women's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  4. ^ Video (full game): 2024 Karuizawa International Curling Championships – Men's Final – Marc Muskatewitz (Germany) vs Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa) on YouTube
  5. ^ "Men's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Teams List". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  7. ^ "Men's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  8. ^ "Men's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Draw Schedule". Karuizawa International Curling Championships. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  10. ^ "Men's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  11. ^ "Women's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  12. ^ "Women's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  13. ^ "Women's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  14. ^ "Women's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 13, 2024.