is a Japanese curler from

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. After winning the 2018 Japanese curling championship, Iwai

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ped the Japanese national team at the

2018 World Men's Curling Championship The 2018 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 361˚ World Men's Curling Championship 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 31 to April 8, 2018 at Orleans Arena, on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. I ...

. Iwai threw third stones on the team which also consisted of fourth Go Aoki, second Ruyotaro Shukuya and lead Yutaka Aoyama. Iwai led the team to a 3-9 round robin record, an 11th-place finish. Iwai began the 2018-19 curling season by winning the

Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic The Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic is an annual bonspiel on the men's and women's World Curling Tour. It is held annually in early August at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. The total purse for the event is ¥ 1,700,000 with ...

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/ref> his first World Curling Tour event win.

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* Living people 1985 births Japanese male curlers Sportspeople from Hyōgo Prefecture {{Japan-curling-bio-stub