Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (curler)
Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi 
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| birthday | November 21, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Minamifurano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Japan
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| Playing position | Second | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi ( Japanese 山口 剛 史 , Yamaguchi Tsuyoshi ; born November 21, 1984 in Minamifurano , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese curler . He plays second in Yūsuke Morozumi's team .
Career
Yamaguchi began his international career at the Junior Pacific Championship in 2005 as third in the team of Yukihiro Murakami ; the team won the silver medal. The following year he played for the first time with Skip Yusuke Morozumi and came second again.
In 2007 he played for the first time in the Pacific Championship . As second in Yusuke Morozumi's team, he finished fourth. The following year he won his first medal in this competition with the silver medal. Five more silver medals followed (2009, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015) before he won the first gold medal with Yusuke Morozumi at the 2016 Pacific Asian Cup . In 2017 he came third with the Japanese team.
He played his first world championship in 2009 in the Morozumi team; the Japanese finished tenth. Since 2013 he has participated in the World Cup every year; the best placement was fourth place in 2016 .
Yamaguchi represented with Yūsuke Morozumi (Skip), Tetsurō Shimizu (Third), Kōsuke Morozumi (Lead) and Kōsuke Hirata (Alternate) Japan in the men's competition at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games . It was the first time in 20 years that a Japanese men's team could qualify for the Olympic Games in curling. In Pyeongchang he came eighth with his teammates after four wins and five defeats in the Round Robin .
Web links
- Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Curler) on Worldcurling.org (English)
- official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Japan teams celebrating Olympic qualification after 20 years . Retrieved January 2, 2018
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| SURNAME | Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山口 剛 史 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minamifurano , Hokkaidō |