Kaho Onodera

Kaho Onodera
Curler
Born	(1991-11-11) November 11, 1991 (age 29) Tokoro, Hokkaido
Team
Curling club	, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Skip	Sayaka Yoshimura
Third	Kaho Onodera
Second	Anna Ohmiya
Lead	Yumie Funayama
Alternate	Momoha Tabata
Career
Member Association	Japan
World Championship appearances	3 (2015, 2018, 2021)
Pacific-Asia Championship appearances	2 (2013, 2014)
Olympic appearances	1 (2014)
hide Medal record Women's Curling Representing  Japan Pacific-Asia Championships 2013 Shanghai 2014 Karuizawa

Kaho Onodera (小野寺 佳步, Onodera Kaho, born November 11, 1991 in Tokoro, Hokkaido) is a Japanese curler from Sapporo. She currently plays third on the Hokkaido Bank FORTIUS curling team skipped by Sayaka Yoshimura.

Career[]

Onodera joined the Ayumi Ogasawara team consisting of Yumie Funayama at third, Michiko Tomabechi at lead and Chinami Yoshida as alternate in 2012. The team played in six tour events during the 2012–13 season, qualifying in three of them. They also won the right to represent Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics as they had qualified through the Olympic qualification event. At the games, they finished in fifth with a 4–5 record, just missing the playoffs. They did however defeat former world champions Wang Bingyu of China and Mirjam Ott of Switzerland. Also during the 2013–14 season, they won a bronze medal at the Pacific-Asia Championship in Shanghai. The next season Tomabechi and Yoshida left the team and were replaced by Sayaka Yoshimura and Anna Ohmiya as Funayama moved to alternate. On the World Curling Tour, they would win two events, the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic and the Hub International Crown of Curling. At the 2014 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, they would pick up a bronze medal. This would ordinarily not be enough to qualify Japan for the World Championships, but because Japan was hosting the event, the team represented their country at the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship, Onodera's first Worlds. There, they placed sixth. In 2015, the team won another tour event, the Karuizawa International Curling Championship. The team played in the 2016 Continental Cup of Curling where they were part of the losing Team World squad. They also played in the 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup, the team's first Grand Slam event. They would finish the round robin as the number one seed with a 4–0 record before losing in the quarterfinal.

Team Ogasawara finished second at the Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic the following season.^[1] They played in one grand slam, the 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge, losing in a tiebreaker to Anna Hasselborg. The next season was more successful for the team, reaching the semifinals in five of their eleven tour events. After the team lost the final of the 2018 Japan Curling Championships, Ogasawara stepped away from competitive curling. Yoshimura stepped up to skip the team with Onodera at third, Ohmiya at second and Funayama as lead. The team would have immediate success on the tour, winning the 2018 Oakville Fall Classic.^[2][3] The team played in two Slams over the course of the 2018–19 curling season, playing in the 2018 National and 2019 Players' Championship, failing to qualify for the playoffs in either event. They also had two runner-up finishes at the Colonial Square Ladies Classic and the Karuizawa International. They would finish third at the 2019 Japanese Curling Championship.

Team Yoshimura had a slow start to the 2019–20 season, only qualifying for the playoffs in three of their first eight events. They reached the semifinals of the 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker and the quarterfinals of both the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and the 2019 KW Fall Classic. They would find success at the first Grand Slam event of the season however, reaching the playoffs of the 2019 Masters. They would then upset higher ranked teams Jennifer Jones and Silvana Tirinzoni before losing to Tracy Fleury in the final.^[4] It marked the first time an Asian team has made it to a grand slam final, excluding defunct events.^[5] The team would not qualify in any of the other slams during the season. They once again finished third at the 2020 Japan Curling Championships. The Japanese championship would be their last event of the season as both the Players' Championship and the Champions Cup Grand Slam events were also cancelled due to the pandemic.^[6]

Personal life[]

Onodera works as an office worker.^[7]

Grand Slam record[]

Former events[]

Teams[]

References[]

External links[]

• Kaho Onodera at Olympic.org (archived)
• Kaho Onodera at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
• Kaho Onodera at Olympics.com
• Kaho Onodera at Olympedia
• Kaho Onodera at World Curling Federation
• Kaho Onodera at CurlingZone
• Kaho Onodera at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)