Masaki Iwai | ||||||||||||
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Born | 31 July 1985 | |||||||||||
Team | ||||||||||||
Skip | Yusuke Morozumi | |||||||||||
Third | Yuta Matsumura | |||||||||||
Second | Ryotaro Shukuya | |||||||||||
Lead | Masaki Iwai | |||||||||||
Alternate | Kosuke Morozumi | |||||||||||
Curling career | ||||||||||||
Member Association | Japan | |||||||||||
World Championship appearances | 1 (2018) | |||||||||||
Pacific-Asia Championship appearances | 1 (2021) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Masaki Iwai (岩井 真幸, Iwai Masaki, born July 31, 1985) is a Japanese curler from Takarazuka, Hyōgo.
After winning the 2018 Japanese curling championship,[2] Iwai skipped the Japan national team at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship. 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,[3] his first World Curling Tour event win.