Yurika Yoshida

Yurika Yoshida
birthday	7th July 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Tokoro, Hokkaidō
Career
nation	Japan
society	Loco Solare Kitami
Playing position	Lead
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × PAM medals 1 × 2 × 1 × 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  Winter Asian Games bronze 2017 Sapporo
last change: November 20, 2018

Yurika Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 夕 梨花 , Yoshida Yurika ; born July 7, 1993 in Tokoro , Tokoro County , now Kitami ) is a  Japanese  curler . She plays as a lead in  Satsuki Fujisawa's team .

Career

At the  2015 Pacific Asia Cup  , Yoshida played as the lead of the Japanese national team under Satsuki Fujisawa for the first time. 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 by winning the silver medal; in the final, Japan  had to admit defeat to Kim Eun-jung's South Koreans  .

She played her first   adult world championship in 2016 as a lead in the Fujisawa team. The Japanese made it to the final and were defeated by the Swiss team led by  Binia Feltscher .

Yoshida and the Fujisawa team (skip: Satsuki Fujisawa, third:  Chinami Yoshida , second:  Yūmi Suzuki , 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

• Yurika Yoshida on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

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