Yuta Matsumura


Yuta Matsumura is a Japanese curler from Kitami.

Career

Matsumura competed at the 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, as alternate for the Japanese team, which placed sixth in the tournament.
Matsumura won the 2018 Oakville Fall Classic, his first career World Curling Tour title. A month later he would also win the Driving Force Abbotsford Cashpiel.
Matsumura represented Japan in the 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in South Korea, which his team would end up winning, defeating China's Zou Qiang 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 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. Team Matsumura represented Japan at the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. 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 Kim Chang-min.

Personal life

Matsumura is employed as a market researcher for Nagayama Unsou. He is married.

Grand Slam record

Event2018–192019–20
MastersDNPDNP
Tour ChallengeDNPDNP
NationalDNPQ
Canadian OpenDNPDNP
Players'DNPN/A
Champions CupQN/A