Kotomi Ishizaki (石崎 琴美, Ishizaki Kotomi) is a Japanese curler from Sapporo.
Career edit
She made her World Championship debut at the 2003 Winnipeg World Championships playing lead for Shinobu Aota's team from Japan. She would return to the world championships in 2004 with the same team.
Her next World Championships came in 2008, where the Japanese women (along with Team China) became the first team from the Pacific region to qualify for the Playoffs at the World Championships. Ishizaki and her team, skipped by Moe Meguro, defeated Team Switzerland in the 3 vs. 4 Playoff match. In the Semifinal, they nearly defeated Team Canada and went to the Bronze Medal match to face a rematch against Team Switzerland. They would lose this match 9 - 7, which would become the second-best performance by a Pacific region team at the Curling World Championships.
Kotomi Ishizaki played Lead position for Team Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[2] and at the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship.
Ishizaki was chosen as an alternate member for Team Japan at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in which they won first-ever silver medals. Ishizaki became the oldest Japanese athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics at age 43 years and 1 month, surpassing Noriaki Kasai, who won 2 medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics at age 41 years and 8 months.
Teammates edit
Satsuki Fujisawa, Skip
Chinami Yoshida Third
Yumi Suzuki Second
Yurika Yoshida Lead
Moe Meguro, Skip
Anna Ohmiya, Third
Mari Motohashi, Second
Mayo Yamaura, Alternate
2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games
Akiko Katoh, Skip
Yumie Hayashi, Third
Ayumi Onodera, Second
Mika Konaka, Lead
References edit
- ^ "Kotomi ISHIZAKI". Olympics.com. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ World Curling Federation - New Website Archived January 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
External links edit
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