Shingo Usui

Shingo Usui (臼井 槙吾, Usui Shingo; born October 11, 1994) is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Japan.^[1]

Shingo Usui
Curler
Born	(1994-10-11) October 11, 1994 (age 30) Kitami, Japan
Team
Skip	Kohsuke Hirata
Third	Shingo Usui
Second	Ryota Meguro
Lead	Yoshiya Miura
Alternate	Kosuke Aita
Curling career
Member Association	Japan
World Championship appearances	2 (2023, 2025)
Pan Continental Championship appearances	1 (2023)
Other appearances	Winter Youth Olympics: 1 (2012); Winter Universiade: 1 (2015)
Medal record Men's Curling Representing  Japan Pan Continental Championships 2023 Kelowna Representing Hokkaido Japan Curling Championships 2023 Tokoro Japan Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2025 Wakkanai

Teams and events

Men's

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Coach	Events
2013–14	Yasumasa Tanida	Yuya Takigahira	Shingo Usui	Kazuki Yoshikawa	Ryuji Shibaya	Kenji Ogawa	PAJCC 2014 (4th)
2014–15	Yasumasa Tanida	Yuya Takigahira	Shingo Usui	Kazuki Yoshikawa	Kohsuke Hirata	Kenji Ogawa	WUG 2015 (7th)
2015–16	Yasumasa Tanida	Yuya Takigahira	Shingo Usui	Kazuki Yoshikawa	Tatsuki Sasaki
2016–17	Yuya Takigahira	Shingo Usui	Tatsuki Sasaki	Kazuki Yoshikawa
	Shingo Usui	Yuya Takigahira	Tatsuki Sasaki	Kazuki Yoshikawa	Ryota Meguro		JCC 2017 (5th)
2021–22	Kohsuke Hirata	Shingo Usui	Ryota Meguro	Yoshiya Miura	Shunta Kobayashi	Hirofumi Kobayashi	JCC 2022 (4th)
2022–23	Kohsuke Hirata	Shingo Usui	Ryota Meguro	Kosuke Aita	Yoshiya Miura	Hirofumi Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Ninomaru	JCC 2023
	Riku Yanagisawa	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi	Takeru Yamamoto	Satoshi Koizumi	Shingo Usui	Bob Ursel	WCC 2023 (7th)[2]
2023–24	Riku Yanagisawa	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi	Takeru Yamamoto	Satoshi Koizumi	Shingo Usui	Bob Ursel	PCCC 2023
	Kohsuke Hirata	Shingo Usui	Ryota Meguro	Yoshiya Miura	Kosuke Aita	Hirofumi Kobayashi	JCC 2024 (5th)
2024–25	Kohsuke Hirata	Shingo Usui	Ryota Meguro	Yoshiya Miura	Hirofumi Kobayashi	Hirofumi Kobayashi	JCC 2025 (4th)
	Riku Yanagisawa (fourth)	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (skip)	Takeru Yamamoto	Satoshi Koizumi	Shingo Usui	Bob Ursel	WCC 2025 (9th)

Mixed

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Coach	Events
2011–12	Shingo Usui	Mizuki Kitaguchi	Martin Reichel	Irena Brettbacher	Katja Schweizer	WYOG 2012 (14th)

Mixed doubles

Season	Male	Female	Coach	Events
2011–12	Cao Ying	Shingo Usui	Shinya Abe[3]	WYOG 2012 (17th)
2023–24	Mikoto Nakajima	Shingo Usui	Hirofumi Kobayashi	JMDCC 2024 (4th)[4]
2024–25	Ikue Kitazawa	Shingo Usui		JMDCC 2025 [5]

Personal life

As of 2025, he is a company employee. He started curling in 2000 at the age of 6.^[1]