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is a Japanese curler from
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. She is the
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on the FORTIUS curling team, which won the
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in 2015, 2021 and 2025. She also won the national championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010 as a member of Team Aomori. She competed for Japan at the
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, placing eighth. At the international level, she has represented Japan at five
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(, , , , ) and six
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in , , , , and , winning the gold medal in 2021.


Career

Ohmiya made her international debut for Japan at the 2007 Pacific Junior Curling Championships, skipping her own team of Chiaki Matui, Megumi Tabusa, Akane Eda and Kiiko Kawaguchi. There, the team finished in last place with a 1–5 record. For the 2007–08 season, Ohmiya joined the reigning Japanese champions Team Aomori as their alternate. The team, skipped by Moe Meguro, competed in the 2007 Pacific Curling Championships where they won the silver medal, qualifying Japan for the 2008 World Women's Curling Championship. They then won the 2008 Japan Curling Championships to qualify for the World Championship. At the Worlds, the team qualified Japan for the playoffs for the second time in history. After a 7–4 record round robin record, they beat Denmark's Angelina Jensen 7–3 in a tiebreaker to qualify for the playoff round. They then played Switzerland's
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in the 3 vs. 4 game where they won 6–4. This qualified them for the semifinal where they narrowly lost to
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of Canada 9–8 and then went on to lose the bronze medal game to Switzerland, finishing in fourth. The next season, Team Meguro again represented Japan at the
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. After a 6–2 round robin record, they lost to South Korea's Kim Mi-yeon in the semifinal game, earning the bronze medal. Despite going on to defend their title and win the 2009 Japanese national title, their third place finish was not enough to qualify them for the 2009 World Women's Curling Championship. The 2009–10 season saw a lineup change for Team Aomori with Ohmiya moving up to play third on the team. As they were the two-time defending national champions, the team qualified for the final round of the 2009 Japanese Olympic Curling Trials to determine who would represent Japan at the
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. There, they won all four of their games over Team Nagano to qualify for the Olympic Games. At the Games in
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, Team Aomori led Japan to a 3–6 round robin record, placing eighth overall at the event. In their three wins, they defeated Great Britain, Russia and the United States. Also during the 2009–10 season, the team represented Japan at the
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where they went through the round robin with a 6–2 record and then beat South Korea in the semifinal. They would lose in the final 10–3 to China's
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, however, had done enough to qualify Japan for the
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, which they would represent Japan at after again winning the Japanese Curling Championships. They would not have a good performance at the World Championship, finishing in eleventh place with a 2–9 record. Team Aomori skip Moe Meguro retired following the season and third Mari Motohashi left the team to move to
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. With only Ohmiya, Kotomi Ishizaki and Mayo Yamaura left on Team Aomori, they added Shinobu Aota to the team as their new skip. In their first season together, the team finished second at the
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for the second year in a row. They also represented Japan at the
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where they won the bronze medal which was not enough to qualify for the 2011 World Women's Curling Championship. At the 2011 Japan Curling Championships, they could not repeat as national champions, losing in the final to
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, skipped by
Satsuki Fujisawa is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at the ...
. It was the first time they hadn't won gold since 2006. The team remained together for two more seasons but did not see successful results which led to Ohmiya leaving the team at the end of the 2012–13 season. After taking a season off, Ohmiya moved from
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to
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to join the Ayumi Ogasawara
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Fortius curling team who were the top ranked team in Japan at the time. The team also included
Sayaka Yoshimura is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the skip of the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in 2015, 2021 and 2025. At the international level, she has represented Japan three times at the World Women's C ...
at third,
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at second and
Yumie Funayama is a Japanese curler, born April 5, 1978, in Tokoro, Hokkaido as . She is currently the coach of Sayaka Yoshimura's team from Sapporo, Hokkaido. Career At age 12, Funayama began curling in her hometown Tokoro, Hokkaido, joining Akiko Katoh ...
as the alternate. On the
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, they would win two events, the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic and the Hub International Crown of Curling. Team Ogasawara represented Japan at the 2014 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Ohmiya's first appearance at the event in four years. After a 5–3 round robin record, they lost to China's
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in the semifinal. They were, however, able to pick up the bronze medal against New Zealand's Chelsea Farley. This would ordinarily not be enough to qualify Japan for the World Championships, but because
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was hosting the event, Japan qualified for the
2015 World Women's Curling Championship The 2015 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as the Zen-Noh World Women's Curling Championship 2015 for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 14 to 22 at the Tsukisamu Gymnasium in Sapporo, Japan. It marks the second time that a wor ...
. The team then competed in their national championship to determine who would represent Japan at the World Championship. After the round robin, they placed second with a 7–1 record, but defeated Loco Solare ( Mari Motohashi) to qualify for the final where they once again played Motohashi. The team were successful in securing the national title by defeating Loco Solare 8–5 and qualifying for the World Championship. There, they placed just outside of the tiebreakers with a 6–5 record, ending in sixth place. Team Ogasawara won one tour event during the 2015–16 season, the Karuizawa International, where they lost only one game en route to claiming the title. They also had semifinal appearances at the Colonial Square Ladies Classic, the Crestwood Ladies Fall Classic and the City of Perth Ladies International. The team played in the 2016 Continental Cup of Curling where they were part of the losing Team World squad. In February 2016, they competed in the
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, attempting to defend their title. They had a strong round robin, going an undefeated 8–0, but then lost both of their playoff games to Loco Solare (
Satsuki Fujisawa is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at the ...
) and Fujikyu ( Tori Koana), settling for third. They also played in the
2016 Humpty's Champions Cup The 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup was held from April 26 to May 1 at the Sherwood Park Arena Sports Centre in Sherwood Park, Alberta. This was the final Grand Slam event of the 2015–16 curling season and is the seventh men's Grand Slam and the ...
, the team's first Grand Slam event. They would finish the round robin as the number one seed with a 4–0 record before losing in the quarterfinals to Switzerland's
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. The team altered their lineup for the 2016–17 season, moving Yoshimura to alternate and Yumie Funayama to third. At the start of the season, Team Ogasawara finished runner-up at the Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic to the Robyn MacPhee rink. They played in one grand slam, the 2016 Tour Challenge, losing in a tiebreaker to
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. At the national championship, they went 6–2 through the round robin before losing both the semifinal and bronze medal games, settling for fourth. The next season was more successful for the team, reaching the semifinals in five of their eleven tour events. They were not able to make it further than the semifinals in any of their events, however. They did not have the opportunity to compete to represent Japan at the
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as only the Fujisawa and
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rinks were selected to compete in the 2017 Japanese Olympic Curling Trials. At the 2018 Japan Curling Championships, they went 7–1 through the round robin and once again won the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game to qualify for the final. There, they faced Koana's Fujikyu rink. Tied 3–3 with the hammer in the tenth end, Ogasawara missed her last shot and the team gave up a steal of two and the win to the Koana rink. Following the season, Ogasawara stepped away from competitive curling. For the 2018–19 season, Yoshimura stepped up to skip the team with Onodera at third, Ohmiya at second and Funayama as lead. The team would have immediate success on the tour, winning the 2018 Oakville Fall Classic. The team played in three Slams over the course of the season, the
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Tier 2, the
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and
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. Despite missing the playoffs at the National and Players' Championship, the team made it all the way to the final of the Tour Challenge Tier 2 where they were defeated by the Elena Stern rink. They also had three runner-up finishes at the Colonial Square Ladies Classic, the 2018 Paf Masters Tour and the Karuizawa International. At the 2019 Japan Curling Championships, Yoshimura led the team to a fourth place 5–3 record in the round robin. They were then able to defeat Fujikyu in the 3 vs. 4 game but were eliminated by Loco Solare in the semifinal, earning the bronze medal. Team Yoshimura had a slow start to the 2019–20 season, only qualifying for the playoffs in three of their first eight events. They reached the semifinals of the 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker and the quarterfinals of both the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and the
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. They would find success at the first Grand Slam event of the season, however, reaching the playoffs of the 2019 Masters with a 3–1 record. They would then upset higher ranked teams
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and
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before losing to
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in the final. It marked the first time an Asian team made it to a grand slam final, excluding defunct events. The team would not qualify in any of the three other Slams they participated in during the season, the
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, the 2019 National or the 2020 Canadian Open. They once again finished third at the
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after a semifinal loss to
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( Seina Nakajima). The Japanese championship would be their last event of the season as both the
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and the Champions Cup Grand Slam events were also cancelled due to the pandemic. Team Yoshimura played in no
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events during the abbreviated 2020–21 season as there were no events held in Japan or Asia. The team would compete in the
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, held from 8 to 14 February 2021 in
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. The team posted a 5–1 record through the round robin of the national championship, earning them a spot in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game. There, the lost to Loco Solare, but beat Chubu Electric Power in the semifinal to qualify for the final. Down one in the tenth, Team Yoshimura scored two points to win the national championship 7–6 over Team Fujisawa. The win marked the team's second time winning the national title in over six years and Ohmiya's fifth time winning the title overall. It also earned them the right to represent Japan at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship, which was played in a bio-secure bubble in
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due the ongoing pandemic. At the Worlds, the team finished in eleventh place with a 5–8 record. In September 2021, the team competed in the 2021 Japanese Olympic Curling Trials, which were held in a best-of-five contest between the Yoshimura and
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rinks. After winning the first two games, Team Yoshimura lost the final three games of the trials, not earning the right to represent Japan at the 2021 Olympic Qualification Event. They played in one Slam at the 2021 Masters where they went a winless 0–3 in the triple knockout bracket. They were, however, still able to represent Japan at the
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due to winning the 2021 national championship. There, they went 5–1 through the round robin, earning a direct bye to the final where they faced South Korea's Kim Eun-jung. Down one in the tenth, Team Yoshimura was once again able to score a deuce to win the game 6–5 and earn the gold medal. Because Team Fujisawa won the Olympic Trials series and were representing Japan at the
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, a world championship trial was held between Hokkaido Bank Fortius, Chubu Electric Power and Fujikyu to determine who would represent Japan at the 2022 World Women's Curling Championship. Hokkaido Bank posted a 3–1 record in the qualifying round, earning them a spot in the best-of-three final against Nakajima. After splitting the first two games, the Nakajima rink took one in the tenth end of the final game to earn the berth as Team Japan at the World Championship. In December, the team added Mina Kobayashi as their alternate. Team Yoshimura ended their season at the
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. After a 4–4 round robin record, they lost in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game to Chubu Electric Power. Also during the 2021–22 season, the team's contract expired with Hokkaido Bank. They then formed their own team named Fortius. In their first event of the 2022–23 season, Team Yoshimura won the
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. They then won the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup two weeks later. In their next two events, they again reached the finals, losing the Argo Graphics Cup final to Sae Yamamoto and the ADVICS Cup final to Team Fujisawa. After a successful start to the season, Yuna Kotani was added at the third position in September 2022. The revised lineup of the team was Yoshimura at skip, Kotani at third, Onodera at second, Ohmiya at lead and Kobayashi as alternate with Yumie Funayama becoming the team's coach. In Canada, the team had back-to-back quarterfinal appearances at the S3 Group Curling Stadium Series and the 2022 Western Showdown, losing out to
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and Meghan Walter respectively. In December, Team Yoshimura competed in the 2022 Karuizawa International Curling Championships where they finished third, beating Loco Solare in the bronze medal game. In the New Year, the team played in the
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where they lost in the semifinals to
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. It would be the team's last event of the 2022–23 season as positive cases of
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within the team forced them to withdraw from their qualifying round of the
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.


Personal life

Ohmiya is currently employed as an office worker. Her father is Yoshiyuki Ohmiya, a curler who competed at the
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in Nagano, Japan for
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. Her sister, Nanami Ohmiya, is also a curler.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohmiya, Anna 1989 births Living people Japanese female curlers Curlers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for Japan Pacific-Asian curling champions Japanese curling champions Continental Cup of Curling participants Curlers from Sapporo Sportspeople from Kitami 21st-century Japanese sportswomen