Yūmi Suzuki

Yūmi Suzuki
birthday	2nd December 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Tokoro, Hokkaidō
Career
nation	Japan
society	Loco Solare Kitami
Playing position	Second
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × PAM medals 1 × 2 × 1 × JBWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × WAS medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2018 Pyeongchang  World Curling Championships silver 2016 Swift Current Pacific Asian Curling Championships gold 2015 Almaty bronze 2016 Uiseong silver 2017 Erina silver 2018 Gangneung Junior B World Curling Championship silver 2016 Lohja  Winter Asian Games bronze 2017 Sapporo
last change: November 20, 2018

Yūmi Suzuki ( Japanese 鈴木 夕 湖 , Suzuki Yūmi ; born December 2, 1991 in Tokoro , Tokoro County (today: Kitami ), Hokkaidō ) is a  Japanese  curler . She plays second in  Satsuki Fujisawa's team .

Career

At the Pacific Asia Cup 2015 , Suzuki played for the first time as second in the Japanese national team under Satsuki Fujisawa. The Japanese won the gold medal by beating South Korea in the final with Skip Kim Ji-sun . The following year she easily won the bronze medal in the same position. In 2017 she completed her set of medals as a substitute in the Japanese team by winning the silver medal; in the final, Japan had to admit defeat to Kim Eun-jung's South Koreans .

At the Junior B World Championship in 2016, she played third in the Japanese women's team under Skip Ayano Tsuchiya . The team was able to secure the silver medal and thus qualify for the 2016 Junior World Championship. There Suzuki was tenth with the Japanese team.

She played her first adult world championship in 2016 when she was second in the Fujisawa team. The Japanese made it to the final and were defeated by the Swiss team led by Binia Feltscher .

Suzuki and the Fujisawa team (skip: Satsuki Fujisawa, third: Chinami Yoshida , lead:  Yurika Yoshida , replacement:  Mari Motohashi ) won the Japanese selection competition for the  2018 Olympic Winter Games  and represented Japan in  Pyeongchang . After the round robin , she and her team were in fourth place and advanced to the final round. In the semifinals she had to admit defeat to South Korea with Skip Kim Eun-jung . In the game for third place, however, she was able to beat Great Britain with Skip Eve Muirhead 5: 3 and win the bronze medal. It was the first Olympic medal in curling for Japan.

At the Pacific Asia Cup in 2018 , she came in second with the Fujisawa team after losing to the Koreans led by Kim Min-ji in the final .

Web links

• Yūmi Suzuki on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japan teams celebrating Olympic qualification after 20 years; World Curling Federation . Retrieved January 9, 2018