CHAMPION: Hasselborg Wins 2026 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Anna
Hasselborg

Third
Sara
McManus

Second
Agnes
Knochenhauer

Lead
Sofia
Scharback

Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE) won 7-3 over Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held March 12 - 15, 2026 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Hasselborg won 8-1 over Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals

Hasselborg are currently . In their opening game, Hasselborg plays Serena Gray-Withers (Edmonton, AB) on Friday at 3am and Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) at 7pm and Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) at 7pm.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Hasselborg earned 34.500 world rankings points along with the $6,015CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 3rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 27 after improving upon their best so far this season. Hasselborg ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 354.100 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	29	14	0	0.674	2-0	2-0	1-0	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	337	246	212	7.30	6.29	1.01	4.66	4.27	1.57	1.47	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	172	193	46	22	1-0	17-2	37-10	1.12	0.27	0.37	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	165	53	166	14	0-1	3-8	8-34	0.32	1.01	0.62	0.24

2026: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, Sofia Scharback, Johanna Heldin, Kristian Lindstroem
Sundbyberg, SWE
2024: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Ami Enami
Nagano, JPN
2022: Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim, Kyeongae Kim, Chohi Kim, Seonyeong Kim, Yeongmi Kim, Myungsup Lim
Gangneung , KOR
2019: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Julia Portunova, Olga Kotelnikova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2018: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Julia Portunova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min-Ji Um, SeulBee Lee, Yoon-Jung Yeom, Ye-eun Seol
Gyeonggi-do, KOR
2015: Ayumi Ogasawara
Ayumi Ogasawara, Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Fuji Miki
Sapporo, JPN
2014: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2013: Binia Feltscher
Binia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech
Flims, SUI