Yuta Matsumura is a Japanese curler from

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. He was the skip of the Consadole curling team until 2022 when he joined TM Karuizawa skipped by

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Career

Matsumura competed at the

2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship The 2015 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as Ford World Men's Curling Championship 2015 for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 28 to April 5 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It marked the first time that a ...

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, Canada, as alternate for the Japanese team, which placed sixth in the tournament. Matsumura won the 2018

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, his first career

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title. A month later he would also win the

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. Matsumura represented Japan in the

2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships The 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships were held from November 3 to 10 at the Gangneung Curling Centre in Gangneung, South Korea. The top two men's and women's teams qualified for the 2019 World Men's Curling Championship and 2019 World Wome ...

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, which his team would end up winning, defeating China's

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in the final. Later in the season he went on to win the 2019 Janapense Men's Championship and represented Japan at the

2019 World Men's Curling Championship The 2019 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 30 to April 7 at the ENMAX Centre in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Qualification The foll ...

as the team's skip. There, he led his team to a fourth place finish, after losing the bronze medal game to Switzerland. Matsumura began the 2019-20 curling season by winning the

2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic The 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic was held August 1–4, 2019 in Sapporo, Japan. It was the second event of the 2019–20 curling season. The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,700,000. In the Men's event, Yuta Matsumura defeated Scott Mc ...

. That season, he also won the

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, the

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and the

Karuizawa International The Karuizawa International Curling Championships is a curling bonspiel held annually since the Olympic Games in Nagano at the SCAP Karuizawa Arena in Kariuzawa, Japan. The bonspiel is held to commemorate the curling event at the 1998 Nagano ...

. Team Matsumura represented Japan at the

2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships The 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships was held from November 2 to 9 at the Shenzhen Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen, China. The top men's team and the top two women's teams qualified for the 2020 World Men's Curling Championship and 2 ...

. After going 8-1 through the round robin and defeating China in the semi-final, they lost the final 11-2 to South Korea's

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. He then had to skip Japan at the

2020 World Qualification Event The 2020 World Qualification Event for the World Curling Championships was held from January 13 to 18 at the Kisakallio Sports Institute in Lohja, Finland. The competition consisted of sixteen teams divided evenly into men's and women's division ...

in order to qualify for the

2020 World Men's Curling Championship The 2020 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 2020 LGT World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was scheduled to be held from March 28 to April 5 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. On March 14, 2020, the World ...

. There, the team only finished third, and did not qualify for the Worlds. However, the World Championship was cancelled due to the

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. The

2021 World Men's Curling Championship The 2021 World Men's Curling Championship (branded as the 2021 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from April 2 to 11 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Canada. The ...

did occur in a fan-less bubble, and the field was increased to 14 teams, allowing Japan a spot. Matsumura skipped Japan at the World Championship, and led his team to a 6–7 record, in 9th place overall.

Personal life

Matsumura is employed as a market researcher for Nagayama Unsou. He is married.2019 World Men's Curling Championship Media Guide: Team Japan

Grand Slam record

References

External links

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Team official website
1989 births Living people Japanese male curlers Pacific-Asian curling champions People from Karuizawa, Nagano Sportspeople from Sapporo People from Kitami, Hokkaido 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-curling-bio-stub