CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2023 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) won 7-1 over Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held December 1 - 3, 2023 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Gushue won 6-4 over Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the semifinals

Gushue finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Soo-Hyuk Kim (Gyeongbuk, KOR) 6-2, then won 9-2 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) and 7-4 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Gushue earned 26.250 world rankings points along with the $7,339CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 6th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -25.875 after improving upon their best so far this season. Gushue ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 152.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	44	16	0	0.733	13-3	4-2	2-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	465	394	236	8.47	5.08	3.40	4.92	3.61	1.72	1.40	1.46

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	219	289	38	31	7-1	25-1	58-4	1.32	0.17	0.48	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	246	105	198	37	0-1	5-5	25-46	0.43	0.80	0.63	0.28

2023: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker , Siyu Liu
St. John's, NL
2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Mike McEwen, Matt Wozniak, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Tetsuro Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Morozumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Aberdeen, SCO
2015: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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