CHAMPION: Muskatewitz Wins Karuizawa International

Fuessen, Germany

SKIP
Marc
Muskatewitz

Third
Benny
Kapp

Second
Felix
Messenzehl

Lead
Johannes
Scheuerl

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	11.67
PA/G:	5.28
Hammer Efficiency:	0.60
Steal Defense:	0.00
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.29

Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER) won 10-4 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held December 12 - 15 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Muskatewitz won 8-6 over Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) in the semifinals

Muskatewitz finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Muskatewitz defeated Yanagisawa 10-4, then won 4-2 against Takumi Maeda (Tokoro, JPN) and 10-3 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad , SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Muskatewitz earned 37.500 world rankings points along with the $6,535CDN first prize cheque. For week 20 of the event schedule, Muskatewitz did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Muskatewitz ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	59	22	0	0.728	16-2	5-4	6-0	3-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	627	550	381	8.77	6.08	2.70	4.93	4.08	1.78	1.49	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	297	411	73	24	17-1	27-0	75-17	1.38	0.25	0.44	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	330	139	308	38	4-4	4-14	26-65	0.42	0.93	0.59	0.27

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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
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Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
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2016: Tom Brewster
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2015: David Murdoch
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Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
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Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR

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