Ikue Kitazawa
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| Born | Ikue Kitazawa October 12, 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Curling club | , Karuizawa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skip | Seina Nakajima | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fourth | Ikue Kitazawa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Third | Chiaki Matsumura | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lead | Hasumi Ishigooka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alternate | Minori Suzuki | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member Association |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship appearances | 1 (2019) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pacific-Asia Championship appearances | 1 (2019) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ikue Kitazawa (北澤 育恵, Kitazawa Ikue, born 12 October, 1996 in Karuizawa) is a Japanese curler. She is the fourth rock thrower of the Chubu Electric Power curling team, which won the 2019 Japanese women's championship, winning all of their games including three matches against Japan's bronze medal winning 2018 Olympic Team, skipped by Satsuki Fujisawa.[1]
Career[]
By winning the Japanese championship, Kitazawa and teammates Seina Nakajima, Chiaki Matsumura and Hasumi Ishigooka represented Japan at the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship. It was Kitazawa's first international curling event. At the world championships, the team squeaked into the playoffs with a 6–6 record, before upsetting the third place Russian team in the quarterfinals. They then lost to Sweden in the semifinal, and lost to South Korea in the bronze medal game, settling for fourth place.[2][3]
Kitazawa and her team represented Japan at the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in Shenzhen, China the following season. After going 6–1 in the round robin and defeating Hong Kong in the semifinal, they lost in the final to China's Han Yu.[4]
Teams[]
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate |
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| 2013–14[5] | Ikue Kitazawa | Seina Nakajima | Eri Ogihara | ||
| 2014–15 | Satsuki Fujisawa | Emi Shimizu | Chiaki Matsumura | Ikue Kitazawa | Hasumi Ishigooka |
| 2015–16 | Emi Shimizu | Chiaki Matsumura | Hasumi Ishigooka | Ikue Kitazawa | |
| 2016–17 | Chiaki Matsumura | Emi Shimizu | Ikue Kitazawa | Hasumi Ishigooka | Seina Nakajima |
| 2017–18 | Chiaki Matsumura | Emi Shimizu | Ikue Kitazawa | Hasumi Ishigooka | Seina Nakajima |
| 2018–19 | Ikue Kitazawa (Fourth) | Chiaki Matsumura | Seina Nakajima (Skip) | Hasumi Ishigooka | Emi Shimizu |
| 2019–20 | Ikue Kitazawa (Fourth) | Chiaki Matsumura | Seina Nakajima (Skip) | Hasumi Ishigooka | Emi Shimizu |
| 2020–21 | Ikue Kitazawa (Fourth) | Chiaki Matsumura | Seina Nakajima (Skip) | Hasumi Ishigooka | Minori Suzuki |
| 2021–22 | Ikue Kitazawa (Fourth) | Chiaki Matsumura | Seina Nakajima (Skip) | Hasumi Ishigooka | Minori Suzuki |
References[]
- ^ "2019 Japanese Women's Curling Championship". CurlingZone. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
- ^ Strong, Gregory (March 15, 2019). "A capsule look at teams competing at the world women's curling championship". National Post. The Canadian Press. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
- ^ "2019 World Women's Curling Championship Bronze Medal Game". World Curling Federartion. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
- ^ "China women win Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2019". World Curling Federation. November 9, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
- ^ "Ikue Kitazawa Past Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
External links[]
- Ikue Kitazawa at World Curling Federation
- Ikue Kitazawa at CurlingZone
- Ikue Kitazawa on Instagram
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