Yurika Yoshida

Yurika Yoshida
Yurika Yoshida
	Curler
Born	July 7, 1993; Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan[1]
Team
Curling club	Loco Solare CC,; Kitami, Japan
Skip	Satsuki Fujisawa
Third	Chinami Yoshida
Second	Yumi Suzuki
Lead	Yurika Yoshida
Career
Member Association	Japan
World Championship; appearances	1 (2016)
Pacific-Asia Championship; appearances	4 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Olympic; appearances	1 (2018)
Women's Curling
Representing Japan
Olympic Games
World Championships
Pacific-Asia Championships

Yurika Yoshida (吉田夕梨花, Yoshida Yurika, born 7 July 1993) is a Japanese curler.[2] She plays lead for the Team Satsuki Fujisawa rink.

Career

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.[3][4] 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.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7][8] The Canadian Open 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.[9]

Yoshida is an office worker at the Kitami Dermatology Clinic. She currently lives in Tokoro.[10] She is the sister of curler Chinami Yoshida.[1]

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Events
2011–12[11]	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[12], PACC 2018[13]
2019–20	Satsuki Fujisawa	Chinami Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Yurika Yoshida

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