Chinami Yoshida
Chinami Yoshida | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Curler | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kitami, Japan |
July 26, 1991 |||||||||||||||||||||
Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Curling club | Tokoro CC, Kitami, Japan |
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Skip | Satsuki Fujisawa | |||||||||||||||||||||
Third | Chinami Yoshida | |||||||||||||||||||||
Second | Yumi Suzuki | |||||||||||||||||||||
Lead | Yurika Yoshida | |||||||||||||||||||||
Alternate | Mari Motohashi | |||||||||||||||||||||
Career | ||||||||||||||||||||||
World Championship appearances |
1 (2016) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Pacific Championship appearances |
2 (2013, 2015) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Olympic appearances |
1 (2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Chinami Yoshida (吉田 知那美 Yoshida Chinami?, born July 26, 1991) is a Japanese curler from Tokoro, Kitami. She currently plays third for Satsuki Fujisawa's rink.
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Career
Yoshida began curling at age 8, at the Tokoro Curling Club in Kitami. During her junior days, she skipped a junior rink of Kaho Onodera, Yumi Suzuki and her sister Yurika Yoshida. Despite being in their early teens, they won bronze medals at both the 2006 and 2007 Japan Curling Championships. However, they lagged behind other junior rinks such as Satsuki Fujisawa and Sayaka Yoshimura, so never played as Team Japan at the PJCC or the WJCC.
In late 2010, Yoshida joined a Sapporo-based rink skipped by Ayumi Ogasawara, for which she mainly played lead. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, where the rink represented Japan and finished 5th, she was officially listed as an alternate for Team Japan, but due to her teammate's flu she actually played second in 6 games and lead in 2 games.
After the season, Yoshida left the Ogasawara rink and returned to her hometown of Kitami. There, in June 2014, she joined Mari Motohashi's rink as third, and came to play with her former teammates Yumi Suzuki and Yurika Yoshida, both of whom had played for the Motohashi rink since 2010. With the team, Yoshida won her first World Curling Tour title at the 2014 Avonair Cash Spiel. Later in the season, at the national championship, they lost to Ayumi Ogasawara's rink in the final, missing a berth to the world championship.
In May 2015, the Kitami-based rink added new skip Satsuki Fujisawa, who was a 4-time Japanese champion skip at that point. Then, Motohashi moved to the alternate position due to her pregnancy, and Fujisawa came to skip a rink of third Chinami Yoshida, second Yumi Suzuki and lead Yurika Yoshida. During the season, they had success internationally as Team Japan, winning a gold medal at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 World Women's Curling Championship, which was Japan's first-ever world championship medal. Meanwhile, domestically, Yoshida won her first national championship title at the 2016 Japan Curling Championships.
Personal life
Yoshida is employed as an office worker for a car dealing company. Her younger sister Yurika is her longtime teammate, and her older sister Natsuki has played at the PJCC and the WJCC before.
Teams
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Events |
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2005–06 | Chinami Yoshida | Tomona Nakagawa | Kaho Onodera | Yumi Suzuki | Mayu Ogasawara | |
2006–07 | Chinami Yoshida | Kaho Onodera | Yurika Yoshida | Yumi Suzuki | ||
2007–08 | Chinami Yoshida | Kaho Onodera | Yurika Yoshida | Yumi Suzuki | Mayu Ogasawara | |
2008–09 | Chinami Yoshida | Yurika Yoshida | Kaho Onodera | Yumi Suzuki | Mayu Ogasawara | |
2011–12 | Ayumi Ogasawara | Yumie Funayama | Kaho Onodera | Chinami Yoshida | Michiko Tomabechi | |
2012–13 | Ayumi Ogasawara | Yumie Funayama | Kaho Onodera | Chinami Yoshida | Michiko Tomabechi | |
2013–14 | Ayumi Ogasawara | Yumie Funayama | Kaho Onodera | Michiko Tomabechi | Chinami Yoshida | PACC, OQE, OG |
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, WCC |
External links
- Chinami Yoshida on the World Curling Federation database
- Chinami Yoshida on the World Curling Tour database
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