| Michiko Tomabechi | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | Michiko Taira 29 January 1980 | |||||||||||||
| Mixed doubles partner | Kenji Tomabechi | |||||||||||||
| Career | ||||||||||||||
| Member Association |  Japan | |||||||||||||
| World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances | 4 (2008, 2011, 2012, 2015) | |||||||||||||
| Pacific-Asia Championship appearances | 1 (2013) | |||||||||||||
| Olympic appearances | 1 (2014) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michiko Tomabechi (born 29 January 1980) is a Japanese curler.
Tomabechi competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, with the Japanese team. [1]
In 2013, she was part of the bronze-winning team at the Pacific-Asia Championship in Shanghai. [2]
Her husband, Kenji Tomabechi is also a competitive curler, they had become the national champion four times in mixed doubles, [3] and they have played four times in the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship as Japan representatives. [4]
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