Yūsuke Morozumi

Yūsuke Morozumi
birthday	16th January 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Karuizawa
Career
nation	Japan
society	SC Karuizawa
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
PAM championship 1 × 6 × 1 × JPAM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × WAS medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Pacific Asian Curling Championships silver 2008 Naseby silver 2009 Karuizawa silver 2012 Naseby silver 2013 Shanghai silver 2014 Karuizawa silver 2015 Almaty gold 2016 Uiseong bronze 2017 Erina Junior Pacific Curling Championship silver 2006 Beijing  Winter Asian Games silver 2017 Sapporo
last change: February 26, 2018

Yūsuke Morozumi ( Japanese 両 角 友 佑 , Morozumi Yūsuke ; January 16, 1985 in Karuizawa ) is a Japanese curler . He plays the skip position. His brother is the curler Kōsuke Morozumi .

Moruzumi's greatest success at international level is winning the gold medal at the 2016 Pacific Asian Cup with the Japanese team. In the final, the team defeated Liu Rui's Chinese team . Before that, he had already won the silver medal six times in this competition. At the Pacific Asia Cup 2017 , he could not successfully defend the title because Japan lost in the semi-finals to South Korea (Skip: Kim Chang-min ). In the game for third place, the Japanese beat Australia (Skip: Hugh Millikin ) 11: 4.

The best result at the World Curling Championship was achieved by Morozumi in 2016 when he finished fourth with the Japanese team.

Morozumi and his team (third: Tetsurō Shimizu , second: Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi , lead: Kōsuke Morozumi , alternate: Kōsuke Hirata ) represented Japan at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games . 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 the Japanese team after four wins and five losses in the Round Robin .

Web links

• Yūsuke Morozumi on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japan teams celebrating Olympic qualification after 20 years . Retrieved November 24, 2017