Akemi Niwa
Akemi Niwa 
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| birthday | March 24, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Kitami , Japan | ||||||||||||
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 Japan
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| society | Tokoro CC | ||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||
| status | unknown | ||||||||||||
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| last change: March 6, 2010 | |||||||||||||
Akemi Niwa ( Japanese 丹羽 明 美 , Niwa Akemi ; born March 24, 1973 in Kitami , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese curler .
Niwa made her international debut in 1993 at the World Curling Championships in Geneva , but she remained without a medal. In the same year she won her first precious metal with the gold medal at the Pacific Championships in Christchurch .
Niwa played as the skip of the Japanese team in the XVIII. Winter Olympics in Nagano in curling. The team around Skip Mayumi Ōkutsu finished fifth.
successes
- Pacific Champion 1993, 1997, 1998
Web links
- Akemi Niwa on Worldcurling.org (English)
- Akemi Niwa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Niwa, Akemi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 丹羽 明 美 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kitami , Japan |