Eri Ogihara

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Eri Ogihara
Born
Eri Ogihara

(2003-02-12) February 12, 2003 (age 22)
Team
Skip Honoka Sasaki
FourthEri Ogihara
Second Miki Hayashi
Lead Yako Matsuzawa
Curling career Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFlag of Japan.svg  Japan
Other appearances World University Games: 1 (2025),
World Junior Championships: 3 (2020, 2022, 2023),
World Junior-B Championships: 1 (2019 (Dec))
Medal record
Women's curling
Representing Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
World University Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Turin
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Jönköping
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Füssen

Eri Ogihara (born February 12, 2003, in Japan) is a Japanese female curler [1] from Karuizawa. [2]

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Career

At the age of 10, Ogihara began competitively curling, joining Ikue Kitazawa's junior team where they played in the 2014 Japan Women's Curling Championship. Ogihara then returned to the national women's championship in 2017, as lead for the Misato Yanagisawa rink. Ogihara found success in 2019 and started representing Japan at the world-level, playing third for the Sae Yamamoto rink, where they won the 2019 World Junior-B Curling Championships (Dec), qualifying themselves for the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships, where they finished 4th. After the World Juniors was cancelled in 2021, the Yamamoto rink returned to the 2022 World Junior Curling Championships, where they won the gold medal, beating Sweden's Moa Dryburgh 7–4 in the final, winning Japan's first ever World Junior Championship. Ogihara would return to the World Juniors in 2023, with the newly formed Yuina Miura rink, where they finished in second, losing to Scotland's Fay Henderson 9–7 in the final.

While going their separate ways after graduating to Women's play, Ogihara would join forces with Yuina Miura again in 2025, representing Japan as part of the team from Sapporo International University at the 2025 Winter World University Games. They won Japan's first gold medal in curling at the World University Games, beating South Korea's Kang Bo-bae rink 7–5 in the final.

Personal life

Ogihara attended Sapporo International University. [3]

Teams

SeasonSkipThirdSecondLeadAlternateCoachEvents
2013–14 Ikue Kitazawa Seina Nakajima Minori Suzuki Eri OgiharaAyako Tanimoto JWCC 2014 (8th) [4] [5]
2016–17 Misato Yanagisawa Riko Toyoda Mayu Sugahara Eri OgiharaChinami OkamuraJWCC 2017 (5th) [6]
2018–19 [7] Yumi TodaEri OgiharaSakura AsanoRito Suyama
2019–20Minori Suzuki (Fourth)Eri Ogihara Yui Ueno Sae Yamamoto (Skip) Miyu Ueno Mitsuki Sato WJBCC 2019 (Dec) Gold medal icon.svg
WJCC 2020 (4th)
2021–22Miyu Ueno (Fourth)Eri OgiharaYui UenoSae Yamamoto (Skip) Yuina Miura Ayumi Ogasawara WJCC 2022 Gold medal icon.svg
2022–23Yuina MiuraEri OgiharaYui UenoYuuna SakumaAi Matsunaga WJCC 2023 Silver medal icon.svg
2024–25Eri Ogihara (Fourth)
Yuina Miura
Honoka Sasaki (Skip)
Kohane Tsuruga
Miki Hayashi
Eri Ogihara
Yako Matsuzawa
Rin Suzuki
Ai Matsunaga Ayumi Ogasawara 2025 WUG Gold medal icon.svg

References

  1. Eri Ogihara at World Curling OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. "2020 World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  3. "OGIHARA Eri".
  4. "第31回 全農日本カーリング選手権大会 - 公益社団法人 日本カーリング協会". www.curling.or.jp. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  5. 2014 Japanese Women's Curling Championship - Curlingzone
  6. 2017 Japanese Women's Curling Championship - Curlingzone
  7. Toda0-4 at 2018 Karuizawa International - Curlingzone