Chinami Yoshida
| Chinami Yoshida | |
|---|---|
| Curler | |
| Born |
July 26, 1991 Kitami, Japan |
| Team | |
| Curling club |
Tokoro CC, Kitami, Japan |
| Skip | Satsuki Fujisawa |
| Third | Chinami Yoshida |
| Second | Yumi Suzuki |
| Lead | Yurika Yoshida |
| Alternate | Mari Motohashi |
| Career | |
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World Championship appearances |
1 (2016) |
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Pacific Championship appearances |
3 (2013, 2015, 2016) |
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Olympic appearances |
1 (2014) |
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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.
Yoshida began curling at age 8, at the Tokoro Curling Club in Kitami. During her junior days, she skipped a Kitami-based junior rink of Kaho Onodera, Yumi Suzuki and her sister Yurika Yoshida. They were highly competitive and when only in their early teens, they won bronze medals at both the 2006 and 2007 Japan Curling Championships. However, since they had usually lagged behind other Japanese junior rinks such as Satsuki Fujisawa and Sayaka Yoshimura, the Yoshida rink never had the opportunity to represent Japan at the PJCC or the WJCC.
After her junior career, Yoshida joined Ayumi Ogasawara's Sapporo-based rink in late 2010, for which she mainly played lead. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they represented Japan and finished 5th with a 4-5 record, Yoshida 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 2013-14 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, reuniting 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 2014-15 season, at the national championship, they lost to Ayumi Ogasawara's rink in the final, missing a berth to the world championship.
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