# 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
Key :
* Teams to Playoffs
| Pool A | W | L | 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 | 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
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Yanagisawa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Takumi Maeda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Sheet E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Michael Brunner | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | X | 6 |
| Yusuke Morozumi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | X | 2 |
| Sheet F | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Shinya Abe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Joël Retornaz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |

#### Draw 2

Friday, December 13, 6:00 pm
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Marc Muskatewitz | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | X | 10 |
| Team Yanagisawa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Takumi Maeda | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Niklas Edin | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | X | 8 |

#### Draw 3

Saturday, December 14, 9:00 am
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Joël Retornaz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 |
| Yusuke Morozumi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 6 |
| Sheet E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Michael Brunner | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Shinya Abe | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |

#### Draw 4

Saturday, December 14, 1:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Yusuke Morozumi | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | X | 6 |
| Shinya Abe | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | X | 9 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Joël Retornaz | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Michael Brunner | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Final |
| Niklas Edin | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Team Yanagisawa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Sheet F | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Marc Muskatewitz | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Takumi Maeda | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |

#### Draw 5

Saturday, December 14, 5:00 pm
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Niklas Edin | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 3 |
| Marc Muskatewitz | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | X | X | 10 |

### Playoffs

Source:
| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| A1 | Shinya Abe | 4 | | | |
| B2 | Team Yanagisawa | 6 | | | |
| B2 | Team Yanagisawa | 6 | B2 | Team Yanagisawa | 4 |
| | | | B1 | Marc Muskatewitz | 10 |
| B1 | Marc Muskatewitz | 8 | B1 | Marc Muskatewitz | 10 |
| A2 | Michael Brunner | 6 | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| | | | A1 | Shinya Abe | 3 |
| | | | A2 | Michael Brunner | 7 |

#### Semifinals

Sunday, December 15, 9:00 am
| Sheet E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Shinya Abe | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Team Yanagisawa | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Sheet F | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Marc Muskatewitz | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Michael Brunner | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |

#### Third place game

Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Shinya Abe | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Michael Brunner | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | X | 7 |

#### Final

Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Yanagisawa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Marc Muskatewitz | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | X | 10 |

## 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 Yu-bin | 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
Key :
* Teams to Playoffs
| Pool A | W | L | 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 | 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 Yu-bin | 1 | 2 | 0–1 | 12 | 20 |

### Round robin results

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

#### Draw 1

Friday, December 13, 2:00 pm
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Silvana Tirinzoni | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Team Tabata | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Anna Hasselborg | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Sayaka Yoshimura | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

#### Draw 2

Friday, December 13, 6:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Tabata | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | X | 7 |
| Ikue Kitazawa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 |
| Sheet E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miyu Ueno | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | X | 9 |
| Silvana Tirinzoni | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Sheet F | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Selena Sturmay | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Park Yu-bin | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |

#### Draw 3

Saturday, December 14, 9:00 am
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Park Yu-bin | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 2 |
| Anna Hasselborg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | X | X | 10 |
| Sheet F | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Ikue Kitazawa | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | X | X | 9 |
| Miyu Ueno | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 2 |

#### Draw 4

Saturday, December 14, 1:00 pm
| Sheet E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Sayaka Yoshimura | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | X | X | X | 8 |
| Selena Sturmay | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | X | X | 1 |

#### Draw 5

Saturday, December 14, 5:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Final |
| Sayaka Yoshimura | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Park Yu-bin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Silvana Tirinzoni | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | X | 5 |
| Ikue Kitazawa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Sheet E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Team Tabata | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | X | 3 |
| Miyu Ueno | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 |
| Sheet F | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Anna Hasselborg | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | X | X | 8 |
| Selena Sturmay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 1 |

### Playoffs

Source:
| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| A1 | Miyu Ueno | 4 | | | |
| B2 | Anna Hasselborg | 6 | | | |
| B2 | Anna Hasselborg | 6 | B2 | Anna Hasselborg | 4 |
| | | | B1 | Sayaka Yoshimura | 5 |
| B1 | Sayaka Yoshimura | 8 | B1 | Sayaka Yoshimura | 5 |
| A2 | Silvana Tirinzoni | 3 | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| | | | A1 | Miyu Ueno | 3 |
| | | | A2 | Silvana Tirinzoni | 5 |

#### Semifinals

Sunday, December 15, 9:00 am
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Sayaka Yoshimura | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | X | X | 8 |
| Silvana Tirinzoni | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 3 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miyu Ueno | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Anna Hasselborg | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |

#### Third place game

Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm
| Sheet F | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Miyu Ueno | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Silvana Tirinzoni | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |

#### Final

Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm
| Sheet E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Anna Hasselborg | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Sayaka Yoshimura | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |