is a Japanese curler from

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Career

She made her

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debut at the 2003 Winnipeg World Championships playing lead for Shinobu Aota's team from Japan. She would return to the world championships in

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with the same team. Her next World Championships came in

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, where the Japanese women (along with Team China) became the first team from the Pacific region to qualify for the Playoffs at the World Championships. Ishizaki and her team, skipped by

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, defeated Team Switzerland in the 3 vs. 4 Playoff match. In the Semifinal, they nearly defeated Team Canada and went to the Bronze Medal match to face a rematch against Team Switzerland. They would lose this match 9 - 7, which would become the second-best performance by a Pacific region team at the Curling World Championships. Kotomi Ishizaki played Lead position for

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at the

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and at the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship. Ishizaki was chosen as an alternate member for

at the

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, in which they won first-ever silver medals. Ishizaki became the oldest Japanese athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics at age 43 years and 1 month, surpassing

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, who won 2 medals at the

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at age 41 years and 8 months.

Teammates

2022 Beijing Olympic Games

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Yurika Yoshida is a Japanese curler. She currently plays lead for Team Loco Solare, which is skipped by Satsuki Fujisawa. The team won the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the silver medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Career Yoshida was a membe ...

''Lead'' 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games

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Anna Ohmiya is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the second on the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2015 and 2021. She also won the national championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010 as a member of Team Aomor ...

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Mari Motohashi is a Japanese curler. Career Motohashi was a member of Team Aomori which represented Japan at two Winter Olympics (2006 and 2010). She threw second stones for Ayumi Onodera at the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing 7th, and played second for Moe M ...

, ''Second'' Mayo Yamaura, ''Alternate'' 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games

Akiko Katoh Akiko Sekiwa (; born April 6, 1978 in Tokoro, Hokkaido, Japan as Akiko Katoh, ) is a Japanese curler and curling coach, a four-time (1994, 1996, 1997, 1998) and a four-time Japan women's champion (1997, 1998, 1999, 2001). She played for Japan ...

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Yumie Hayashi is a Japanese curler, born April 5, 1978, in Tokoro, Hokkaido as . She is currently the coach of Sayaka Yoshimura's team from Sapporo, Hokkaido. Career At age 12, Funayama began curling in her hometown Tokoro, Hokkaido, joining Akiko Katoh's j ...

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Ayumi Onodera is a Japanese curler, born November 25, 1978, as . She currently skips her own team in Sapporo, Hokkaido, which represented Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Also she is a curling coach. Career At the age of 12, Ogasawara began curling in her ...

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Mika Konaka Mika Konaka (; born February 24, 1977, in Tokoro, Hokkaido, Japan as Mika Hori) is a Japanese curler, a and a two-time Japan women's champion (1999, 2001). She played for Japan at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the Japanese team finished i ...

, ''Lead''

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* 1979 births Living people Japanese female curlers Olympic curlers for Japan Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Asian Games medalists in curling Curlers at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Pacific-Asian curling champions Olympic silver medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in curling Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Pan Continental curling champions People from Asahikawa Sportspeople from Sapporo Curlers from Hokkaido 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-curling-bio-stub