2012 Karuizawa International Curling Championship

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2012 Karuizawa International Curling Championship
Host cityKaruizawa, Japan
ArenaSCAP Karuizawa Arena
DatesJanuary 25–29
Men's winner Japan Selection
SkipYusuke Morozumi
ThirdTsuyoshi Yamaguchi
SecondTetsuro Shimizu
LeadKosuke Morozumi
Finalist Canada (Colin Thomas)
Women's winner Canada
SkipLaura Crocker
ThirdSarah Wilkes
SecondJen Gates
LeadPam Feldkamp
AlternateCheryl Kreviazuk
Finalist Switzerland (Silvana Tirinzoni)

The 2012 Karuizawa International Curling Championship was held from January 25 to 29 at the SCAP Karuizawa Arena in Karuizawa, Japan. The bonspiel featured eight teams from each gender (five foreign teams and three Japanese teams) that played in a round-robin format. The top four teams of each gender played in a single-elimination playoff round to determine the winners.

Men[edit]

Teams[edit]

The teams are listed as follows:[1]

Regions Skip Third Second Lead Alternate
Foreign
Berths
 Canada Colin Thomas Cory Schuh Chris Ford Spencer Wicks Stephen Ryan
 Norway Thomas Løvold Steffen Walstad Thomas Due Sander Rølvaag Kenneth Andersen
 Germany Jamie Boutin Robert Krüger Andreas Hofmann Martin Schulz-Dobrick Konstantin Kampf
 China Liu Rui Xu Xiaoming Ba Dexin Zang Jialiang Chen Lu'an
 South Korea Kim Chang-min Kim Min-chan Seong Seh-yeon Seo Young-sun Oh Eun-su
Japanese
Berths
 Japan National Team Nobuaki Mutoh Takahiro Yoshida Shinya Iwamoto Tatsuya Hayashi Toshiya Murata
 Japan Selection Team Yusuke Morozumi Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Tetsuro Shimizu Kosuke Morozumi
Japan Nagano Selection Team Yuta Matsumara Yuki Sakamoto Yoshiro Shimizu Yuki Tsuchiya

Round-robin standings[edit]

Final round-robin standings

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Teams to Tiebreaker
Region Skip W L
 South Korea Kim Chang-min 6 1
 Canada Colin Thomas 5 2
 China Liu Rui 5 2
 Japan Selection Yusuke Morozumi 3 4
Japan Nagano Selection Yuta Matsumara 3 4
 Germany Jamie Boutin 2 5
 Norway Thomas Løvold 2 5
 Japan Nobuaki Mutoh 2 5

Round-robin results[edit]

All draw times listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).[2]

Draw 1[edit]

Wednesday, January 25, 13:00

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) (has hammer) 1 0 3 1 0 2 0 X 7
 China (Liu) 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 X 4
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 X 8
Japan Nagano Selection (Matsumara) 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 X 5

Draw 2[edit]

Wednesday, January 25, 16:15

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Mutoh) 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 5
 Germany (Boutin) (has hammer) 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 4
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Norway (Løvold) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 X 3
 Canada (Thomas) (has hammer) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 X 2

Draw 3[edit]

Wednesday, January 25, 19:30

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Germany (Boutin) (has hammer) 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 6
 China (Liu) 0 0 2 0 2 1 1 1 7
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
Japan Nagano Selection (Matsumara) (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 7
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 6

Draw 4[edit]

Thursday, January 26, 9:00

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
 Norway (Løvold) (has hammer) 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 8
 Japan (Mutoh) 0 2 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
 Canada (Thomas) (has hammer) 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 7
 South Korea (Kim) 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 6

Draw 5[edit]

Thursday, January 26, 12:15

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Germany (Boutin) 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 X 3
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) (has hammer) 2 1 0 3 0 2 2 X 10
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Nagano Selection (Matsumara) 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 4
 Canada (Thomas) (has hammer) 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 6

Draw 6[edit]

Thursday, January 26, 15:30

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Liu) (has hammer) 3 0 0 2 0 2 1 X 8
 Norway (Løvold) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Mutoh) 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 0 3 0 0 2 3 X X 8

Draw 7[edit]

Thursday, January 26, 18:45

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) (has hammer) 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 4
 Canada (Thomas) 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
 Germany (Boutin) (has hammer) 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 7
 Norway (Løvold) 0 0 1 2 0 2 1 0 0 6

Draw 8[edit]

Friday, January 27, 9:00

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Nagano Selection (Matsumara) 0 1 0 3 1 5 X X 10
 Japan (Mutoh) (has hammer) 1 0 2 0 0 0 X X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 6
 China (Liu) 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3

Draw 9[edit]

Friday, January 27, 12:15

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) (has hammer) 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 7
 Norway (Løvold) 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Thomas) 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 X 6
 Japan (Mutoh) (has hammer) 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 X 2

Draw 10[edit]

Friday, January 27, 15:30

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 0 4 2 0 2 2 X X 10
 Germany (Boutin) 1 0 0 2 0 0 X X 3
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Liu) 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 X 5
Japan Nagano Selection (Matsumara) (has hammer) 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 X 2

Draw 11[edit]

Friday, January 27, 18:45

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Norway (Løvold) (has hammer) 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4
 South Korea (Kim) 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 7
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Mutoh) (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 2 7
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 3

Draw 12[edit]

Saturday, January 28, 8:00

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Thomas) 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1
 China (Liu) (has hammer) 3 2 4 0 0 0 X X 9
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Nagano Selection (Matsumara) 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 X 3
 Germany (Boutin) (has hammer) 1 1 1 0 3 0 3 X 9

Draw 13[edit]

Saturday, January 28, 11:15

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) (has hammer) 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 X 4
 South Korea (Kim) 1 0 2 0 2 0 3 X 8
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Liu) (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 4
 Japan (Mutoh) 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 3

Draw 14[edit]

Saturday, January 28, 14:30

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Norway (Løvold) 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 X 4
Japan Nagano Selection (Matsumara) (has hammer) 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 X 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Thomas) (has hammer) 1 0 1 2 2 2 X X 8
 Germany (Boutin) 0 1 0 0 0 0 X X 1

Tiebreaker[edit]

Saturday, January 28, 17:30

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) 0 2 0 3 0 X X X 5
Japan Nagano Selection (Matsumara) (has hammer) 1 0 0 0 1 X X X 2

Playoffs[edit]

Semifinals Gold Medal Final
      
1  South Korea 5
4  Japan Selection 10
4  Japan Selection 7
3  Canada 6
3  Canada 9
2  China 6 Bronze Medal Final
1  South Korea 7
2  China 6

Semifinals[edit]

Sunday, January 29, 9:00

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 X 5
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) 0 2 0 2 0 4 1 0 1 X 10
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
 Canada (Thomas) 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 9
 China (Liu) (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 6

Bronze-medal game[edit]

Sunday, January 29, 13:00

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 South Korea (Kim) 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 X 7
 China (Liu) (has hammer) 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 X 6

Gold Medal Final[edit]

Sunday, January 29, 13:00

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
 Japan Selection (Morozumi) (has hammer) 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 7
 Canada (Thomas) 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 6

Women[edit]

Teams[edit]

The teams are listed as follows:[1]

Regions Skip Third Second Lead Alternate
Foreign
Berths
 Canada Laura Crocker Sarah Wilkes Jennifer Gates Pam Feldkamp Cheryl Kreviazuk
 China Wang Bingyu Sun Yue Yue Qingshuang Zhou Yan Liu Jinli
 Denmark Madeleine Dupont Denise Dupont Christine Svensen Lina Knudsen
 Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni Irene Schori Esther Neuenschwander Sandra Gantenbein
 South Korea Kim Ji-sun Lee Seul-bee Gim Un-chi Lee Hyun-Jang
Japanese
Berths
 Japan National Team Satsuki Fujisawa Miyo Ichikawa Emi Shimizu Miyuki Satoh Chiaki Matsumura
 Japan Selection Team Mayo Yamaura (fourth) Shinobu Aota (skip) Anna Ohmiya Kotomi Ishizaki
Japan Nagano Selection Team Kai Tsuchiya Kie Igarashi Mina Uchibori Erika Otani Misaki Kobayashi

Round-robin standings[edit]

Final round-robin standings

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Teams to Tiebreakers
Region Skip W L
 Canada Laura Crocker 5 2
 South Korea Kim Ji-sun 5 2
 China Wang Bingyu 4 3
 Japan Selection Shinobu Aota 4 3
 Switzerland Silvana Tirinzoni 4 3
Japan Nagano Selection Kai Tsuchiya 3 4
 Denmark Madeleine Dupont 2 5
 Japan Satsuki Fujisawa 1 6

Round-robin results[edit]

All draw times listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).[2]

Draw 1[edit]

Wednesday, January 25, 13:00

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Nagano Selection (Tsuchiya) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 X 1
 China (Wang) (has hammer) 2 0 1 1 2 3 3 X 12
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Kim) 1 1 0 0 3 0 4 X 9
 Japan (Fujisawa) (has hammer) 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 X 5

Draw 2[edit]

Wednesday, January 25, 16:15

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan Selection (Aota) (has hammer) 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 5
 Denmark (Dupont) 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 5
 Canada (Crocker) 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 4

Draw 3[edit]

Wednesday, January 25, 19:30

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Denmark (Dupont) (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 5
 China (Wang) 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 6
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Fujisawa) 0 1 0 0 0 0 X X 1
Japan Nagano Selection (Tsuchiya) (has hammer) 1 0 2 1 3 2 X X 9

Draw 4[edit]

Thursday, January 26, 9:00

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 6
 Japan Selection (Aota) (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Crocker) 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 6
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 5

Draw 5[edit]

Thursday, January 26, 12:15

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Fujisawa) 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 6
 Canada (Crocker) (has hammer) 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 2 8
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Denmark (Dupont) 0 1 0 0 0 X X X 1
Japan Nagano Selection (Tsuchiya) 2 0 2 1 1 X X X 6

Draw 6[edit]

Thursday, January 26, 15:30

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) (has hammer) 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 5
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan Selection (Aota) 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 5 10
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 5

Draw 7[edit]

Thursday, January 26, 18:45

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Nagano Selection (Tsuchiya) 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 X 4
 Canada (Crocker) (has hammer) 2 0 0 3 1 1 0 X 7
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Denmark (Dupont) (has hammer) 1 0 2 0 5 1 X X 9
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) 0 1 0 1 0 0 X X 2

Draw 8[edit]

Friday, January 27, 9:00

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Fujisawa) (has hammer) 2 1 0 0 3 0 3 X 9
 Japan Selection (Aota) 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 X 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 6
 China (Wang) 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2

Draw 9[edit]

Friday, January 27, 12:15

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Nagano Selection (Tsuchiya) (has hammer) 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 3
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 X 5
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Crocker) (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
 Japan Selection (Aota) 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 3

Draw 10[edit]

Friday, January 27, 15:30

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 X 5
 Denmark (Dupont) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) (has hammer) 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 X 6
 Japan (Fujisawa) 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 3

Draw 11[edit]

Friday, January 27, 18:45

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 4
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan Selection (Aota) 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 X 4
Japan Nagano Selection (Tsuchiya) (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 3 0 1 X 7

Draw 12[edit]

Saturday, January 28, 8:00

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 0 1 X X 2
 Canada (Crocker) 0 2 0 3 1 0 X X 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Japan (Fujisawa) 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3
 Denmark (Dupont) (has hammer) 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 4 9

Draw 13[edit]

Saturday, January 28, 11:15

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
Japan Nagano Selection (Tsuchiya) 0 0 1 0 2 0 X X 3
 South Korea (Kim) 1 1 0 1 0 6 X X 9
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 X 3
 Japan Selection (Aota) (has hammer) 2 0 0 0 2 0 5 X 9

Draw 14[edit]

Saturday, January 28, 14:30

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) (has hammer) 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 6
 Japan (Fujisawa) 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 5
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Crocker) 0 2 2 0 0 2 X X 6
 Denmark (Dupont) (has hammer) 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1

Tiebreakers[edit]

Saturday, January 28, 17:30

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) 1 1 0 2 0 1 X X 5
 China (Wang) (has hammer) 0 0 2 0 1 0 X X 3

Saturday, January 28, 20:00

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) (has hammer) 1 0 0 2 0 3 X X 6
 Japan Selection (Aota) 0 2 0 0 2 0 X X 4

Playoffs[edit]

Semifinals Gold Medal Final
      
1  Canada 10
4  China 8
1  Canada 9
3  Switzerland 8
3  Switzerland 7
2  South Korea 5 Bronze Medal Final
4  China 7
2  South Korea 10

Semifinals[edit]

Sunday, January 29, 9:00

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Canada (Crocker) 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 1 0 1 10
 China (Wang) (has hammer) 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 8
Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 1 7
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 5

Bronze-medal game[edit]

Sunday, January 29, 13:00

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final
 China (Wang) (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 7
 South Korea (Kim) 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 4 10

Gold-medal game[edit]

Sunday, January 29, 13:00

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final
 Canada (Crocker) (has hammer) 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 3 1 9
 Switzerland (Tirinzoni) 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 8

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "2012 Karuizawa International Curling Championship – Teams". Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
  2. ^ a b "2012 Karuizawa International Curling Championship – Schedule". Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2012-01-28.

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