2026 Karuizawa International Curling Championships

The 2026 Karuizawa International Curling Championships were held from September 17 to 20 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.

For the 2026–27 season, the event was a satellite Grand Slam of Curling event. The highest ranking non-qualified team on the men's and women's sides earned a spot at the 2026 GSOC Invitational, the first Grand Slam of the season. With the winning teams both already being qualified, these berths went to the finalists Japan's Takumi Maeda and South Korea's Kim Kyeong-ae.

Men

Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) Shinya Abe (Skip) Haruto Ouchi Hayato Sato Asei Nakahara Sapporo, Japan Oskar Eriksson Rasmus Wranå Simon Olofsson Christoffer Sundgren Karlstad, Sweden Kaito Fujii Miki Yamamoto Konosuke Takahashi Shunsuke Kanagawa Ruki Yokoyama Karuizawa, Japan Go Aoki (Fourth) Shingo Usui Takeshi Aoyanagi Kohsuke Hirata (Skip) Ryota Meguro Kitami, Japan Jeong Byeong-jin Kim Hyo-jun Pyo Jeong-min Kim Jin-hun Kim Dae-hyun Uiseong, South Korea Shunta Kobayashi Hinata Michitani Shuto Ouchi Chikara Segawa Sapporo, Japan Lee Jae-beom Kim Min-woo Kim San Kim Jeong-min Seoul, South Korea Takumi Maeda Uryu Kamikawa Ryotaro Shukuya Gakuto Tokoro Hiroki Maeda Tokoro, Japan Kotaro Noguchi Yuto Kamada – Hiromasa Yonehara Miyagi, Japan P. N. Raju – Sudheer Reddy Kishan Vasant Hyderabad, India Riku Yanagisawa (Fourth) Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Skip) Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi Karuizawa, Japan Ryo Wakabayashi Kosuke Yuuki Masahito Hirano Shinji Okamoto Kyoto, Japan

Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Oskar Eriksson 5 0 – 37 9 Kohsuke Hirata 4 1 – 30 23 Shunta Kobayashi 3 2 – 22 26 Shinya Abe 2 3 – 27 18 Kotaro Noguchi 1 4 – 19 28 P. N. Raju 0 5 – 14 45 Pool B W L PF PA Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi 4 1 1–0 35 21 Takumi Maeda 4 1 0–1 29 17 Kaito Fujii 3 2 – 30 28 Jeong Byeong-jin 2 3 1–0 26 29 Lee Jae-beom 2 3 0–1 25 25 Team Yoshioka 0 5 – 16 41

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

Draw 1 Thursday, September 17, 9:00 am

Draw 2 Thursday, September 17, 12:30 pm

Draw 3 Thursday, September 17, 4:00 pm

Draw 4 Thursday, September 17, 7:30 pm

Draw 5 Friday, September 18, 9:00 am

Draw 6 Friday, September 18, 12:30 pm

Draw 7 Friday, September 18, 4:00 pm

Draw 8 Friday, September 18, 7:30 pm

Draw 9 Saturday, September 19, 9:00 am

Draw 10 Saturday, September 19, 12:30 pm

Playoffs

Quarterfinals Saturday, September 19, 4:00 pm

Semifinals Saturday, September 19, 7:30 pm

Third place game Sunday, September 20, 11:00 am

Final Sunday, September 20, 11:00 am

Women

Teams The teams are listed as follows: Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale Koharu Arai (Fourth) Rin Shigihara Lisa Yamamoto Mai Akahoshi (Skip) Ai Kawata Karuizawa, Japan Satsuki Fujisawa Yako Matsuzawa Yumi Suzuki – Kitami, Japan Ha Seung-youn – Kim Cho-hi Kim Seon-yeong Gangneung, South Korea Kim Kyeong-ae Kim Min-seo Shim Yu-jeong Kim Ji-soo Jeonbuk, South Korea Kim Eun-jung Park Han-byul Kim Su-hyeon Bang Yu-jin Kim Hae-jeong Uiseong, South Korea Kim Ji-yoon Lee Eun-chae Lee Hae-in Yang Seung-hee Seoul, South Korea Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka Nagano, Japan Mina Kobayashi Kaho Onodera Yuna Kotani Anna Ohmiya Sapporo, Japan Yuina Miura Kohane Tsuruga Rin Suzuki Aone Nakamura Sapporo, Japan Yumi Suzuki Aki Goto Kyoka Kuramitsu Runa Miura Miho Fujimori Tokyo, Japan Kotone Suzuki (Fourth) Moka Tanaka (Skip) Minami Nakao Akari Hashimoto Hana Ikeda Sapporo, Japan Isabella Wranå Almida de Val Moa Dryburgh Maria Larsson Sundbyberg, Sweden

Round robin standings Final Round Robin Standings KeyTeams to Playoffs Pool A W L PF PA Team Kang 4 1 1–1 30 19 6.20 Ikue Kitazawa 4 1 1–1 29 20 34.40 Satsuki Fujisawa 4 1 1–1 32 25 46.76 Kim Eun-jung 2 3 – 25 24 Yuina Miura 1 4 – 22 30 Mai Akahoshi 0 5 – 16 36 Pool B W L PF PA Isabella Wranå 5 0 – 34 17 Ha Seung-youn 4 1 – 44 19 Moka Tanaka 3 2 – 22 20 Mina Kobayashi 2 3 – 22 29 Kim Ji-yoon 1 4 – 20 32 Yumi Suzuki 0 5 – 15 40