2022 Karuizawa International Curling Championships

The 2022 Karuizawa International Curling Championships were held from December 16 to 18 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] It was the first time the event has been held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic cancelling both the 2020 and 2021 editions.^[4]

2022 Karuizawa International Curling Championships
Host city	Karuizawa, Japan
Arena	Karuizawa Ice Park
Dates	December 16–18
Men's winner	Team Yanagisawa
Curling club	Karuizawa CC, Karuizawa, Nagano
Skip	Riku Yanagisawa
Third	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Second	Takeru Yamamoto
Lead	Satoshi Koizumi
Alternate	Konosuke Takahashi
Coach	Yuji Nishimuro
Finalist	Yusuke Morozumi
Women's winner	Team Kim
Curling club	Gangneung CC, Gangneung
Skip	Kim Eun-jung
Third	Kim Kyeong-ae
Second	Kim Cho-hi
Lead	Kim Seon-yeong
Alternate	Kim Yeong-mi
Coach	Lim Myung-sup
Finalist	Kerri Einarson
« 2019 2023 »

Men

Teams

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

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Locale
Kohsuke Hirata	Shingo Usui	Ryota Meguro	Yoshiya Miura	Kosuke Aita	Kitami, Japan
Hiroyuki Honda	Tomohiro Akita	Ryuta Numabe	Motohiro Goto	Ryu Yamamura	Kitami, Japan
Jeong Byeong-jin	Lee Jeong-jae	Kim Min-woo	Kim Tae-hwan		Seoul, South Korea
Kim Soo-hyuk (Fourth)	Kim Chang-min (Skip)	Jeon Jae-ik	Kim Hak-kyun	Seong Se-hyeon	Uiseong, South Korea
Yusuke Morozumi	Yuta Matsumura	Ryotaro Shukuya	Kosuke Morozumi	Masaki Iwai	Karuizawa, Japan
Go Aoki (Fourth)	Hayato Sato (Skip)	Kouki Ogiwara	Kazushi Nino	Ayato Sasaki	Sapporo, Japan
John Shuster	Chris Plys	Matt Hamilton	John Landsteiner	Colin Hufman	Duluth, Minnesota
Riku Yanagisawa	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi	Takeru Yamamoto	Satoshi Koizumi	Konosuke Takahashi	Karuizawa, Japan

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings^[7]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L PF PA DSC John Shuster 3 0 23 8 40.27 Yusuke Morozumi 2 1 20 12 36.20 Jeong Byeong-jin 1 2 18 16 76.90 Hiroyuki Honda 0 3 4 29 83.65

Pool B W L PF PA DSC Kohsuke Hirata 2 1 21 20 53.22 Riku Yanagisawa 2 1 21 12 61.05 Hayato Sato 2 1 17 16 109.45 Kim Chang-min 0 3 13 24 96.13

Round-robin results

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

Draw 1

Friday, December 16, 9:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kohsuke Hirata	1	0	1	0	0	1	3	0	6
Hayato Sato	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	2	7

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Riku Yanagisawa	2	0	2	0	2	3	X	X	9
Kim Chang-min	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	X	2

Draw 2

Friday, December 16, 1:30 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yusuke Morozumi	2	2	0	2	1	2	X	X	9
Hiroyuki Honda	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	1

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Jeong Byeong-jin	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	X	4
John Shuster	0	0	2	0	3	1	0	X	6

Draw 3

Friday, December 16, 6:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Kim Chang-min	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	6
Kohsuke Hirata	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	1	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Hayato Sato	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	2
Riku Yanagisawa	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	X	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
John Shuster	2	2	0	0	3	3	X	X	10
Hiroyuki Honda	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	1

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Jeong Byeong-jin	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	X	4
Yusuke Morozumi	0	0	0	4	1	1	2	X	8

Draw 4

Saturday, December 17, 9:00 am

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Hiroyuki Honda	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	X	2
Jeong Byeong-jin	2	0	5	0	3	X	X	X	10

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Chang-min	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	X	5
Hayato Sato	0	0	0	4	0	4	0	X	8

Draw 5

Saturday, December 17, 1:30 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Riku Yanagisawa	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	1	0	7
Kohsuke Hirata	0	2	0	3	0	0	2	0	1	8

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
John Shuster	1	1	1	0	4	0	X	X	7
Yusuke Morozumi	0	0	0	2	0	1	X	X	3

Playoffs

Source:^[10]

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	John Shuster	3
	B2	Riku Yanagisawa	10
						B2	Riku Yanagisawa	5
						A2	Yusuke Morozumi	4
	B1	Kohsuke Hirata	4
	A2	Yusuke Morozumi	5			Bronze medal game
						A1	John Shuster	7
						B1	Kohsuke Hirata	3

Semifinals

Saturday, December 17, 6:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kohsuke Hirata	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	4
Yusuke Morozumi	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
John Shuster	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	3
Riku Yanagisawa	2	0	2	0	2	0	4	X	10

Third place game

Sunday, December 18, 9:00 am

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
John Shuster	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	X	7
Kohsuke Hirata	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	3

Final

Sunday, December 18, 1:30 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Riku Yanagisawa	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	5
Yusuke Morozumi	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	4

Women

Teams

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

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Locale
Kerri Einarson	Val Sweeting	Shannon Birchard	Briane Harris		Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
Satsuki Fujisawa	Chinami Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Yurika Yoshida		Kitami, Japan
Asuka Kanai	Ami Enami	Junko Nishimuro	Mone Ryokawa		Karuizawa, Japan
Kim Eun-jung	Kim Kyeong-ae	Kim Cho-hi	Kim Seon-yeong	Kim Yeong-mi	Gangneung, South Korea
Ikue Kitazawa	Seina Nakajima	Minori Suzuki	Hasumi Ishigooka	Chiaki Matsumura	Nagano, Japan
Honoka Sasaki	Mari Motohashi	Miki Hayashi	Ayuna Aoki	Mayumi Saito	Kitami, Japan
Momoha Tabata	Miku Nihira	Mikoto Nakajima	Ayami Ito		Sapporo, Japan
Sayaka Yoshimura	Yuna Kotani	Kaho Onodera	Anna Ohmiya	Yumie Funayama	Sapporo, Japan

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings^[12]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L PF PA DSC Kerri Einarson 2 1 20 17 97.55 Sayaka Yoshimura 2 1 18 13 86.27 Honoka Sasaki 1 2 19 22 35.33 Ikue Kitazawa 1 2 18 23 70.37

Pool B W L PF PA DSC Kim Eun-jung 2 1 18 13 39.05 Satsuki Fujisawa 2 1 17 12 63.23 Momoha Tabata 2 1 16 16 80.17 Asuka Kanai 0 3 13 23 98.15

Round-robin results

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

Draw 1

Friday, December 16, 9:00 am

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sayaka Yoshimura	0	2	0	0	3	1	0	X	6
Honoka Sasaki	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Kerri Einarson	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	5
Ikue Kitazawa	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	2	7

Player percentages
Team Einarson		Team Kitazawa
Briane Harris	74%	Hasumi Ishigooka	83%
Shannon Birchard	64%	Minori Suzuki	65%
Val Sweeting	82%	Seina Nakajima	67%
Kerri Einarson	59%	Ikue Kitazawa	85%
Total	70%	Total	75%

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Satsuki Fujisawa	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	1	6
Asuka Kanai	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3

Draw 2

Friday, December 16, 1:30 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Eun-jung	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	X	5
Momoha Tabata	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sayaka Yoshimura	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	X	3
Kerri Einarson	0	2	0	1	2	0	1	X	6

Player percentages
Team Yoshimura		Team Einarson
Anna Ohmiya	78%	Briane Harris	80%
Kaho Onodera	83%	Shannon Birchard	81%
Yuna Kotani	66%	Val Sweeting	75%
Sayaka Yoshimura	68%	Kerri Einarson	80%
Total	74%	Total	79%

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Ikue Kitazawa	0	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	7
Honoka Sasaki	1	0	2	0	3	0	2	1	9

Draw 3

Friday, December 16, 6:00 pm

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Satsuki Fujisawa	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	X	6
Kim Eun-jung	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	X	3

Player percentages
Team Fujisawa		Team Kim
Yurika Yoshida	86%	Kim Seon-yeong	77%
Yumi Suzuki	81%	Kim Cho-hi	84%
Chinami Yoshida	88%	Kim Kyeong-ae	64%
Satsuki Fujisawa	97%	Kim Eun-jung	63%
Total	88%	Total	72%

Draw 4

Saturday, December 17, 9:00 am

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Asuka Kanai	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	1	6
Momoha Tabata	2	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	7

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sayaka Yoshimura	0	1	1	1	0	3	3	X	9
Ikue Kitazawa	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	4

Draw 5

Saturday, December 17, 1:30 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Honoka Sasaki	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	7
Kerri Einarson	0	0	2	2	0	1	2	0	2	9

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Momoha Tabata	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	1	6
Satsuki Fujisawa	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Eun-jung	0	4	0	2	0	4	X	X	10
Asuka Kanai	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	4

Playoffs

Source:^[14]

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Kerri Einarson	4
	B2	Satsuki Fujisawa	3
						A1	Kerri Einarson	4
						B1	Kim Eun-jung	5
	B1	Kim Eun-jung	7
	A2	Sayaka Yoshimura	5			Bronze medal game
						B2	Satsuki Fujisawa	4
						A2	Sayaka Yoshimura	7

Semifinals

Saturday, December 17, 6:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Eun-jung	0	0	1	0	2	3	0	1	7
Sayaka Yoshimura	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	5

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Kerri Einarson	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	4
Satsuki Fujisawa	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	3

Third place game

Sunday, December 18, 9:00 am

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Satsuki Fujisawa	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	4
Sayaka Yoshimura	0	2	0	0	1	2	1	1	7

Final

Sunday, December 18, 6:00 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kerri Einarson	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	4
Kim Eun-jung	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	5

Player percentages
Team Einarson		Team Kim
Briane Harris	84%	Kim Seon-yeong	92%
Shannon Birchard	86%	Kim Cho-hi	91%
Val Sweeting	84%	Kim Kyeong-ae	88%
Kerri Einarson	70%	Kim Eun-jung	86%
Total	81%	Total	89%