Karuizawa International Curling Championships

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Karuizawa International Curling Championships
OrganizerSports Community Karuizawa Club
Established1999;25 years ago (1999)
Host city Karuizawa, Japan
Arena Karuizawa Ice Park
Website karuizawa-icurling.jp
Men's purse ¥ 1,500,000
Women's purse ¥ 1,500,000
Current champions (2023)
Men Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Brad Gushue
Women Flag of Nagano Prefecture.svg 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.

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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'sWomen's
5 Foreign Teams
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan National Team
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Selection Team [lower-alpha 1]
Flag of Nagano Prefecture.svg  Nagano Selection Team [lower-alpha 1]

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)

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

Past Champions (since 2010)

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

Notes

  1. 1 2 Selection teams recommended by Japan Curling Association

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