2024 Japan Curling Championships Explained

2024 Japan Curling Championships
Host City:	Sapporo, Hokkaido
Arena:	Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium
Dates:	January 28 – February 4
Men's Winner:	Consadole
Curling Club:	Tokoro CC, Tokoro, Hokkaido
Skip:	Shinya Abe
Fourth:	Tetsuro Shimizu
Second:	Haruto Ouchi
Lead:	Sota Tsuruga
Alternate:	Makoto Tsuruga
Finalist:	SC Karuizawa Club (Yanagisawa)
Women's Winner:	SC Karuizawa Club
Curling Club2:	Karuizawa CC, Karuizawa, Nagano
Skip2:	Miyu Ueno
Third2:	Asuka Kanai
Second2:	Junko Nishimuro
Lead2:	Yui Ueno
Alternate2:	Mone Ryokawa
Coach2:	Yuji Nishimuro
Finalist2:	Hokkaido Bank (Nihira)
Prev:	2023
Next:	2025

The 2024 Japan Curling Championships (branded as the 41st Zen-Noh Japan Curling Championships) were held from January 28 to February 4 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.^[1] The winning teams earned the right to represent Japan at the 2024 World Men's Curling Championship and the 2024 World Women's Curling Championship respectively.^[2]

Both the men's and women's events were played in three rounds, a change in format from previous years.^[3] ^[4] Similar to the Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the ten teams were split into two pools of five. The top three teams in each group advanced to the championship round where they crossed over and played the three teams from the opposing pool. Following the conclusion of the championship round, the first-place team advanced directly to the final with the second and third place teams playing in the semifinal.^[2]

Medalists

Men	Consadole Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) Shinya Abe (Skip) Haruto Ouchi Sota Tsuruga Makoto Tsuruga	SC Karuizawa Club Riku Yanagisawa Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi	Loco Solare Takumi Maeda Asei Nakahara Hiroki Maeda Uryu Kamikawa Ryoji Onodera
Women	SC Karuizawa Club Miyu Ueno Asuka Kanai Junko Nishimuro Yui Ueno Mone Ryokawa	Hokkaido Bank Momoha Tabata (Fourth) Miku Nihira (Skip) Sae Yamamoto Mikoto Nakajima Ayami Ito	Chubu Electric Power Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Ami Enami Minori Suzuki Hasumi Ishigooka

Men

Qualification

The following teams qualified to participate in the 2024 Japan Curling Championship:^[5]

Qualification method	Berths	Qualifying team(s)
2023 Champion	1	SC Karuizawa Club
2023 Runner-Up	1	Kitami Association
Hokkaido Region	1	Loco Solare
Tōhoku Region	1	Team Sato
Kanto Region	1	Team Tani
Chūbu Region	1	SC Karuizawa Club Jr.
West Japan Region	1	Okayama CA
Committee Recommendation	3	TM Karuizawa Sapporo International University Consadole
TOTAL	10

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[5]

Team	Skip	Third	Alternate	Locale
	Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth)	Shinya Abe (Skip)	Makoto Tsuruga	Kitami
Kitami Association			Kosuke Aita	Kitami
			Ryoji Onodera	Kitami
Okayama CA	Hiroki Yoshioka (Fourth)	Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Skip)	Makoto Takahashi	Okayama
	Go Aoki (Fourth)	Hayato Sato (Skip)	Shunta Kobayashi	Sapporo
SC Karuizawa Club				Karuizawa
SC Karuizawa Club Jr.	Miki Yamamoto (Fourth)	Konosuke Takahashi (Skip)	Miharu Kubota	Karuizawa
Team Sato			Tomoya Kawamura	Aomori
Team Tani			Kohei Okamura	Tokyo
TM Karuizawa				Karuizawa

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings^[6]

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Pool A
width=170	Team	width=120	Skip	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
		4	0	33	17	19	13	3	7	27.4
TM Karuizawa		3	1	33	19	17	13	5	6	17.0
Kitami Association		2	2	29	27	17	14	2	4	21.4
		1	3	26	33	15	19	5	2	46.0
Okayama CA		0	4	12	37	9	18	5	0	45.8

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Pool B
width=170	Team	width=130	Skip	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
		4	0	35	8	14	7	5	4	44.4
SC Karuizawa Club		3	1	39	12	16	6	4	10	21.9
SC Karuizawa Club Jr.		2	2	14	26	10	12	8	4	49.9
Team Sato		1	3	15	36	11	16	0	2	52.6
Team Tani		0	4	17	38	12	22	2	2	76.6

Round robin results

All draws are listed in Japan Standard Time .^[7] ^[8]

Draw 2

Monday, January 29, 9:00

Draw 4

Monday, January 29, 19:00

Draw 6

Tuesday, January 30, 13:30

Draw 8

Wednesday, January 31, 9:00

Draw 10

Wednesday, January 31, 18:00

Championship round standings

Final Championship Round Standings^[6]

width=170	Team	width=130	Skip	width=20		width=20		width=30		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
		7	0	–	61	28	28	18	7	7
		6	1	–	56	34	31	24	7	11
SC Karuizawa Club		5	2	–	60	32	29	17	8	13
TM Karuizawa		4	3	–	61	41	30	25	5	8
Kitami Association		3	4	–	42	40	26	22	7	8
SC Karuizawa Club Jr.		2	5	–	19	50	14	24	11	5

Championship round results

Draw 12

Thursday, February 1, 13:30

Draw 14

Friday, February 2, 9:00

Draw 16

Friday, February 2, 18:00

Playoffs

Source:^[6]

Semifinal

Saturday, February 3, 13:30

Final

Sunday, February 4, 10:00

Final standings

Place	Team	Skip
		Shinya Abe
	SC Karuizawa Club	Riku Yanagisawa
		Takumi Maeda
4	TM Karuizawa	Yusuke Morozumi
5	Kitami Association	Kohsuke Hirata
6	SC Karuizawa Club Jr.	Konosuke Takahashi
7		Hayato Sato
8	Team Sato	Koei Sato
9	Okayama CA	Hiromitsu Fujinaka
10	Team Tani	Ryutaro Tani

Women

Qualification

The following teams qualified to participate in the 2024 Japan Curling Championship:^[5]

Qualification method	Berths	Qualifying team(s)
2023 Champion	1	Loco Solare
2023 Runner-Up	1	SC Karuizawa Club
Hokkaido Region	1	Hokkaido Bank
Tōhoku Region	1	Iwate Institute
Kanto Region	1	Grandir
Chūbu Region	1	SC Karuizawa Club Jr.
West Japan Region	1	Team Hiroshima
Committee Recommendation	3	Chubu Electric Power Fortius Loco Solare.S
TOTAL	10

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[5]

Team	Skip	Third	Alternate	Locale
			Hasumi Ishigooka	Nagano
Fortius			Yumie Funayama	Sapporo
Grandir			Haruka Hosoda	Tokyo
	Momoha Tabata (Fourth)	Miku Nihira (Skip)	Ayami Ito	Sapporo
				Iwate
			Kotomi Ishizaki	Kitami
			Yako Matsuzawa	Kitami
SC Karuizawa Club			Mone Ryokawa	Nagano
SC Karuizawa Club Jr.			Ai Kawada	Nagano
Team Hiroshima				Hiroshima

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings^[6]

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Pool A
width=180	Team	width=100	Skip	width=20		width=20		width=30		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
Fortius		3	1	1–1	36	16	21	10	0	9	36.8
		3	1	1–1	32	16	18	12	3	6	43.4
SC Karuizawa Club		3	1	1–1	32	17	16	13	4	3	56.4
SC Karuizawa Club Jr.		1	3	–	18	35	11	18	0	2	104.0
Team Hiroshima		0	4	–	10	44	8	21	2	0	85.5

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Pool B
width=130	Team	width=110	Skip	width=20		width=20		width=30		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
		4	0	–	30	19	19	14	2	7	52.3
		3	1	–	31	15	15	14	1	9	62.7
		2	2	–	20	26	13	15	5	2	41.1
Grandir		1	3	–	23	26	16	18	1	4	106.6
		0	4	–	19	37	16	18	0	4	68.9

Round robin results

All draws are listed in Japan Standard Time .^[7] ^[8]

Draw 1

Sunday, January 28, 17:00

Draw 3

Monday, January 29, 13:30

Draw 5

Tuesday, January 30, 9:00

Draw 7

Tuesday, January 30, 18:00

Draw 9

Wednesday, January 31, 13:30

Championship round standings

Final Championship Round Standings^[6]

width=180	Team	width=110	Skip	width=20		width=20		width=30		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
		6	1	–	51	30	28	25	3	11	60.9
		5	2	2–0	53	31	32	24	4	11	47.1
SC Karuizawa Club		5	2	1–1	53	34	30	22	9	7	51.6
		5	2	0–2	49	42	31	29	4	10	36.9
Fortius		4	3	–	56	36	34	24	0	13	28.3
		2	5	–	33	50	23	30	6	4	57.5

Championship round results

Draw 11

Thursday, February 1, 9:00

Draw 13

Thursday, February 1, 18:00

Draw 15

Friday, February 2, 13:30

Playoffs

Source:^[6]

Semifinal

Saturday, February 3, 18:00

Final

Sunday, February 4, 14:30

Final standings

Place	Team	Skip
	SC Karuizawa Club	Miyu Ueno
		Miku Nihira
		Ikue Kitazawa
4		Satsuki Fujisawa
5	Fortius	Yuna Kotani
6		Honoka Sasaki
7	SC Karuizawa Club Jr.	Aoi Watanabe
8	Grandir	Yui Ozeki
9		Kotoka Segawa
10	Team Hiroshima	Riho Zaikan

External links

Notes and References

Web site: The 41st Zen-Noh Japan Curling Championships. ja. Japan Curling Association. January 30, 2024.
Web site: Outline of the Tournament. ja. Japan Curling Association. January 30, 2024.
Web site: Men's Event. CurlingZone. January 30, 2024.
Web site: Women's Event. CurlingZone. January 30, 2024.
Web site: Participating Teams. ja. Japan Curling Association. January 30, 2024.
Web site: Match Results. ja. Japan Curling Association. January 30, 2024.
Web site: Draw Schedule. ja. Japan Curling Association. January 30, 2024.
Web site: Japan Curling Association – YouTube. YouTube. January 30, 2024.