Akiko Sekiwa

Akiko Sekiwa
birthday	April 6, 1978
place of birth	Tokoro , Hokkaidō ,  Japan
Career
nation	Japan
society	Tokoro CC
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	unknown
Medal table
PM medals 4 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
Pacific Curling Championship gold 1994 Christchurch gold 1996 Sydney gold 1997 Karuizawa gold 1998 Qualicum Beach silver 2001 Jeonju Junior World Curling Championship silver 1998 Thunder Bay silver 1999 Östersund
last change: March 3, 2010

Akiko Sekiwa ( Japanese 関 和 章 子 , Sekiwa Akiko ; born April 6, 1978 in Tokoro , Hokkaidō as Akiko Katō ( 加藤 章 子 , Katō Akiko )) is a Japanese curler .

Career

Sekiwa had her international debut in 1994. At the Curling Pacific Championship in Christchurch , she won the gold medal as lead with her team. She was able to repeat this success in 1996, 1997 as third and 1998 as Skip.

Sekiwa was able to qualify five times for the Junior World Championship and won the silver medal twice.

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , Sekiwa played for the first time for Olympic metal. The team reached fifth place on home soil. Sekiwa was also part of the Japanese curling Olympic team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . This time the team finished eighth.

successes

• Pacific Champion 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998
• 2nd place Pacific Championship 2001
• 2nd place Junior World Championship 1998, 1999

Web links

• Akiko Katō (Sekiwa) on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Akiko Sekiwa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )