2024 Karuizawa International Curling Championships

The 2024 Karuizawa International Curling Championships were held from December 13 to 15 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan. The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,500,000 on both the men's and women's sides.

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

Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Shinya Abe 2 1 1–0 17 15 Michael Brunner 2 1 0–1 16 12 Yusuke Morozumi 1 2 1–0 14 16 Joël Retornaz 1 2 0–1 11 15 Pool B W L PF PA Marc Muskatewitz 3 0 – 24 9 Team Yanagisawa 2 1 – 17 18 Niklas Edin 1 2 – 15 20 Takumi Maeda 0 3 – 10 19

Round robin results All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

Draw 1 Friday, December 13, 2:00 pm

Draw 2 Friday, December 13, 6:00 pm

Draw 3 Saturday, December 14, 9:00 am

Draw 4 Saturday, December 14, 1:00 pm

Draw 5 Saturday, December 14, 5:00 pm

Playoffs

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Semifinals Sunday, December 15, 9:00 am

Third place game Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm

Final Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm

Women

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

Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Miyu Ueno 2 1 1–0 15 16 Silvana Tirinzoni 2 1 0–1 15 13 Team Tabata 1 2 1–0 12 11 Ikue Kitazawa 1 2 0–1 12 14 Pool B W L PF PA Sayaka Yoshimura 2 1 1–0 19 10 Anna Hasselborg 2 1 0–1 21 9 Selena Sturmay 1 2 1–0 7 20 Park You-been 1 2 0–1 12 20