Yurika Yoshida

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Yurika Yoshida
Curler
Born (1993-07-07) July 7, 1993 (age 28)
Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan[1]
Team
Curling clubLoco Solare CC,
Kitami, Japan
SkipSatsuki Fujisawa
ThirdChinami Yoshida
SecondYumi Suzuki
LeadYurika Yoshida
Mixed doubles
partner		Yuta Matsumura
Career
Member Association Japan
World Championship
appearances		1 (2016)
World Mixed Doubles Championship
appearances		1 (2021)
Pacific-Asia Championship
appearances		4 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Olympic
appearances		1 (2018)
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Medal record
Women's Curling
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Pyeongchang Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Swift Current
Pacific-Asia Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Almaty
Silver medal – second place 2017 Erina
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gangneung
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Uiseong

Yurika Yoshida (吉田 夕梨花, Yoshida Yurika, born 7 July 1993) is a Japanese curler.[2] She currently plays lead for Team Loco Solare, which is skipped by Satsuki Fujisawa. The team won bronze medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Career[]

Yoshida was a member of a team, "Tokoro Junior High school Robins", with Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki and Kaho Onodera. They were the Hokkaido representative at the Japan Curling Championships where they ranked third in both 2006[3] and 2007.[4]

Yoshida and teammates Mari Motohashi and Yumi Suzuki added former skip Chinami Yoshida to their team at third for the 2014–15 season. With the team, she won her first World Curling Tour title at the 2014 Avonair Cash Spiel. Later that season, at the national championships, they lost the final against the Ogasawara rink to miss a berth to the world championships.

In May 2015, the Motohashi rink added Satsuki Fujisawa, who was a four-time Japanese champion skip at that point. Motohashi thereafter moved from skip to alternate because of her pregnancy, and Fujisawa took over the rink of third Chinami Yoshida, second Yumi Suzuki and lead Yurika Yoshida. During the 2015-16 season, her team of Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki and Mari Motohashi had success internationally as Japan's national team, winning a gold at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and a silver at the 2016 World Women's Curling Championship, which was Japan's first-ever world championship medal.[5][6] Meanwhile, domestically, Yoshida with the team won her first national championship title at the 2016 Japan Curling Championships. The team would win a bronze medal at the 2016 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and a silver at the 2017 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. They also won a bronze medal at the 2017 Asian Winter Games.

Yoshida was part of the Japanese team that won the 2018 Olympics women curling bronze medal.[7]

Yoshida again represented Japan at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. Her team went an undefeated 6–0 record in the round robin, but lost to the Koreans (skipped by Kim Min-ji) in the final. The next month, she represented Japan in the second leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup in Omaha, United States, which her team would end up winning, this time defeating Kim and her South Korean rink in the final.[8]

Team Fujisawa began the 2019–20 season, at the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic where they lost in the final to Jiang Yilun. Next they won the ADVICS Cup. They had two more playoff appearances at their next two events, the Booster Juice Shoot-Out and the 2019 Colonial Square Ladies Classic where they had semifinal and quarterfinal finishes respectively. Next, they had a semifinal finish at the 2019 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic. In Grand Slam play, they made the quarterfinals at the Masters and the semifinals of the Tour Challenge, National and Canadian Open. They had two more playoff appearances on tour at the Red Deer Curling Classic where they lost in the quarterfinals and the Karuizawa International where they lost the final to Anna Sidorova. For the first time in four seasons, Team Fujisawa won the Japan Curling Championships, defeating Seina Nakajima in the final. The team was set to represent Japan at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship before the event got cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9][10] 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.[11]

Team Fujisawa played in no World Curling Tour events during the abbreviated 2020–21 season as there were no events held in Japan or Asia.[12] The team would compete in their national championship, held from February 7–14, 2021 in Wakkanai, Hokkaido, as the defending champions.[13] After an unblemished 6–0 round robin record, the team defeated Team Sayaka Yoshimura of Hokkaido Bank to advance to the final where they would once again face Yoshimura.[14] Down one in the tenth, Team Yoshimura scored two points to win the national championship 7–6 over Team Fujisawa.[15] This meant that once again, the team would not get to represent Japan at the World Championships. Team Fujisawa ended their season at the 2021 Champions Cup and 2021 Players' Championship Grand Slam events, which were played in a "curling bubble" in Calgary, Alberta, with no spectators, to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.[16] The team had quarterfinal finishes at both events, losing out to Rachel Homan at the Champions Cup and Anna Hasselborg at the Players'.[17][18]

Personal life[]

Yoshida is an office worker at the Kitami Dermatology Clinic. She currently lives in Tokoro.[19] She is the sister of curler Chinami Yoshida.[1]

Teams[]

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Events
2011–12[20] Mari Motohashi Megumi Mabuchi Yumi Suzuki Akane Eda Yurika Yoshida
2012–13 Mari Motohashi Yurika Yoshida Megumi Mabuchi Yumi Suzuki
2013–14 Mari Motohashi Yurika Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Megumi Mabuchi
2014–15 Mari Motohashi Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Megumi Mabuchi
2015–16 Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Mari Motohashi PACC 2015, WWCC 2016
2016–17 Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Mari Motohashi PACC 2016, AWG 2017
2017–18 Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Mari Motohashi JOCT 2017, PACC 2017, 2018 OG
2018–19 Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida Kotomi Ishizaki CWC,[21] PACC 2018[22]
2019–20 Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida
2020–21 Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida
2021–22 Satsuki Fujisawa Chinami Yoshida Yumi Suzuki Yurika Yoshida

References[]

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  2. ^ "Profile:Japan" (PDF). Eye Opener. World Women's Curling Swift Current 2016. No. 2. Curling Canada. 2016. p. 15. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Japan Curling Championship 2006" (in Japanese). Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  4. ^ "Japan Curling Championship 2007" (in Japanese). Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  5. ^ "Ford World Women's Curling Championship Gold for Switzerland". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  6. ^ "Ford World Women's Curling Championship 2016 Teams". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  7. ^ Keating, Steve (February 24, 2018), "Curling: Japan win bronze to claim first Olympic medal", Reuters
  8. ^ "Japan clinch women's final after last-stone dram". Curling World Cup. 2018-12-09. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  9. ^ The Canadian Press (March 12, 2020). "World Women's Curling Championship Cancelled". The Sports Network. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  10. ^ "World Women's Curling Championship 2020 cancelled in Prince George, Canada". World Curling Federation. March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  11. ^ "GSOC cancels remaining events of 2019–20 season". Grand Slam of Curling. Grand Slam of Curling. March 13, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  12. ^ "2020–21 World Curling Tour: Women's Schedule". World Curling Tour. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  13. ^ "市川美余さん 知っておきたいカーリング女子4強解説！ 日本選手権に向けて (Miyo Ichikawa Curling Girls 4 Strong Commentary You Want To Know! Ahead of the Japan Championship)" (in Japanese). NHK Sports. February 7, 2021. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  14. ^ "Fujisawa Runner-Up at 2021 Japan Curling Championships". CurlingZone. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  15. ^ "カーリング日本選手権 女子 北海道銀行が6年ぶり2回目の優勝 (Curling Japan Championship Women's Hokkaido Bank wins for the second time in six years)" (in Japanese). NHK. February 14, 2021. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  16. ^ Jonathan Brazeau (April 12, 2021). "Humpty's Champions Cup start moved to Thursday". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  17. ^ Jonathan Brazeau (April 18, 2021). "Koe clips Jacobs to jump into Humpty's Champions Cup semis". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  18. ^ Jonathan Brazeau (April 24, 2021). "Gushue eliminates Edin to reach Players' Championship semis". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  19. ^ 2018 Continental Cup Media Guide
  20. ^ "Yurika Yoshida past teams". Curling Zone. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  21. ^ "Teams, First Leg - Suzhou, China Events". Curling World Cup. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  22. ^ "Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2018 - Teams". World Curling Federation. Retrieved August 10, 2019.

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