Kosuke Morozumi
Kosuke Morozumi 
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| birthday | July 27, 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Karuizawa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Japan
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| Playing position | Lead | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: January 3, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kōsuke Morozumi ( Japanese 両 角 公 佑 , Morozumi Kōsuke ; born July 27, 1988 in Karuizawa ) is a Japanese curler . He plays as a lead in his brother's team, Yūsuke Morozumi .
Career
Morozumi began his international career at the Junior Pacific Championship in 2006 as a substitute for Yusuke Morozumi's team; the team won the silver medal.
In 2007 he played for the first time in the Pacific Championship . As a lead in Yūsuke Morozumi's team, he finished fourth. The following year he won his first medal in this competition with the silver medal. Five more silver medals followed (2009, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015) before he won the first gold medal with Yūsuke Morozumi at the 2016 Pacific Asian Championships . In 2017 he came third with the Japanese team.
He played his first world championship in 2009 in his brother's team; the Japanese finished tenth. Since 2013 he has participated in the World Cup every year; the best placement was fourth place in 2016 .
Morozumi represented Japan in the men's competition at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games with Yūsuke Morozumi (Skip), Tetsurō Shimizu (Third), Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Second) and Kōsuke Hirata (Alternate) . It was the first time in 20 years that a Japanese men's team could qualify for the Olympic Games in curling. In Pyeongchang he came eighth with his teammates after four wins and five defeats in the Round Robin .
Web links
- Kōsuke Morozumi on Worldcurling.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curling is big in Japan , cbc.ca. Retrieved January 3, 2018
- ↑ Japan teams celebrating Olympic qualification after 20 years . Retrieved January 2, 2018
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| SURNAME | Morozumi, Kosuke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 両 角 公 佑 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karuizawa (Nagano) |