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is a Japanese curler from
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. As a
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, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the
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and the silver medal-winning team at the
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. She is currently the skip of the Loco Solare curling team.


Career

Fujisawa's junior career began with a championship at the 2008
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over China's Sun Yue. This qualified her and her Japanese team for the
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, where they finished seventh with a 3–6 record. Fujisawa defended her Pacific Junior title by winning the 2009 Pacific Junior Curling Championships defeating China's Liu Jinli in the final. At the
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, she skipped Japan to a last-place (10th) finish and a 2–7 record. In 2011, Fujisawa played in her first non-junior international event, skipping for Japan at the
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. She placed fourth at the event, finishing with a 2–6 record. Fujisawa won her first
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event in 2012 by winning the 2012 Shamrock Shotgun over the South Korean national team, skipped by Kim Eun-jung. Later that year, she skipped Japan to a silver medal at the
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. Later in the season, she skipped the Japanese women's team to a seventh-place finish at the
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. In September 2013, Fujisawa and her
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-based rink, who had won the last three straight national championships, participated in the national trials for the 2013 Olympic Qualification Event. They lost the best-of-seven final of the trials to Ayumi Ogasawara's
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-based rink in six games, which eliminated their chances of competing at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Fujisawa left the team and joined Mari Motohashi's rink as skip in May 2015, moving from
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back to
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, where she had grown up and played juniors until 2009. Half a year later, Fujisawa and her new team represented Japan at the
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, where she led Japan to its first gold medal since
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by winning the final match against South Korea's Kim Ji-sun. Later that season, Fujisawa, with third
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, second Yumi Suzuki, lead Yurika Yoshida, and alternate Mari Motohashi also competed for Japan at the 2016 World Women's Curling Championship in
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, Canada. In the round-robin stage of the event, they finished second with a 9–2 record and advanced to the playoffs. They lost the 1 vs. 2 game to Binia Feltscher from Switzerland and then rebounded with a semifinal win over Russia's
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to earn a berth into the gold medal match. There, the Swiss team defeated Fujisawa's rink again but secured silver, Japan's first-ever podium finish at a world championship. Fujisawa skipped the Japanese rink at the
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. After posting a 6–1 round robin record, tied with China and South Korea, her team would lose to China's
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in the semifinal. This meant that she could not defend her silver medal at the World Championships, as she had to make it to the finals to qualify Japan for the 2017 Worlds. Fujisawa began the 2017–18 season by winning the
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. The team won the 2017 Japanese Olympic Curling Trials in September 2017, defeating the
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rink three games to one in a best-of-five series. The team then went on to win a silver medal at the 2017 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. After finishing in third after the double round robin with a record of 6–4, they upset China in the semifinal before losing to Korea in the final. The following month, she won her second tour event of the season, the 2017 Karuizawa International Curling Championship. Fujisawa skipped the Japanese team that won the 2018 Olympics women curling bronze medal. Fujisawa again represented Japan at the
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. She led her team to an undefeated 6–0 record in the round robin but lost to the Koreans (skipped by Kim Min-ji in the final. The next month, she represented Japan in the second leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup in
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, which her team would end up winning, this time defeating Kim and her South Korean rink in the final. Team Fujisawa began the 2019–20 season at the 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, where they lost in the final to Jiang Yilun. Next, they won the ADVICS Cup. They had two more playoff appearances at their next two events, the Booster Juice Shoot-Out and the 2019 Colonial Square Ladies Classic, where they had semifinal and quarterfinal finishes, respectively. Next, they had a semifinal finish at the 2019 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic. In Grand Slam play, they made the quarterfinals at the Masters and the semifinals of the
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and Canadian Open. They had two more playoff appearances on tour at the Red Deer Curling Classic, where they lost in the quarterfinals, and the Karuizawa International, where they lost the final to
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. For the first time in four seasons, Team Fujisawa won the
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, defeating Seina Nakajima in the final. The team was set to represent Japan at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship before the event got cancelled due to the
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. 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 Fujisawa 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 2021 Japan Curling Championships, held from 8 to 14 February 2021 in
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, as the defending champions. After an unblemished 6–0 round robin record, the team defeated Team Sayaka Yoshimura of
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to advance to the final where they would once again face Yoshimura. Down one in the tenth, Team Yoshimura scored two points to win the national championship 7–6 over Team Fujisawa. This meant that once again, the team would not get to represent Japan at the World Championships. Team Fujisawa ended their season at the 2021 Champions Cup and
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Grand Slam events, which were played in a "curling bubble" in
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, with no spectators, to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. The team had quarterfinal finishes at both events, losing out to
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at the Champions Cup and
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at the Players'. In their first event of the 2021–22 season, Team Fujisawa finished runner-up at the
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. They then played in the 2021 Japanese Olympic Curling Trials, which were held in a best-of-five contest between the Fujisawa and Sayaka Yoshimura rinks. After losing the first two games, Team Fujisawa rattled off three straight victories to win the trials and earn the right to represent Japan at the 2021 Olympic Qualification Event. There, the team finished third in the round robin and then defeated South Korea to secure their spot in the
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. At the Games, Fujisawa led her team of
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, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida and Kotomi Ishizaki to a 5–4 round robin record, enough to qualify as the fourth seeds in the playoff round. They then defeated the number one seeds in Switzerland's
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to advance to the Olympic final, where they would face Great Britain's
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. The team could not keep their momentum going in the final, however, dropping the match 10–3, earning the silver medal. Elsewhere on tour for the season, Team Fujisawa lost in the final of the 2021 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic after a previously undefeated record. In November, they went undefeated to claim the Red Deer Curling Classic. In Grand Slam play, they only qualified in one of three events they played in, the
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, where they reached the quarterfinals. The team wrapped up their season at the 2022 Japan Curling Championships. There, they went 7–1 through the round robin and won the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game over
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. They then defeated the
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's
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team 7–3 in the final to claim the national title. The Fujisawa rink won their second event of the 2022–23 season, going undefeated to win the Advics Cup. At the 2022 National, the team went undefeated until the semifinals where they were stopped by
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8–5. They also lost to Team Einarson at the next Slam, 6–5 in a tiebreaker. Because they won the 2022 national championship, Team Fujisawa represented Japan at the
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where they finished third in the round robin with a 6–2 record. They then beat Canada's Einarson in the semifinal before defeating Korea's
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8–6 in the championship game. The team again missed the playoffs at the 2022 Masters after a 1–3 record. In the new year, the team was the first qualifier at the 2023 Canadian Open, winning all three of their pre-qualifying matches. They then won 8–7 over
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in the quarterfinals and 7–6 over Gim Eun-ji in the semifinals to reach their first Slam final. There, they became the first Asian team to win a Slam, excluding defunct events, with a 5–3 win over Team Einarson. Team Fujisawa won their second straight national title at the
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, defeating SC Karuizawa Club's Asuka Kanai 7–5 in the final. This qualified them for the 2023 World Women's Curling Championship where they qualified for the playoffs with a 7–5 record. They were then eliminated by Canada 6–4 in the qualification round. They finished their season with a quarterfinal appearance at the 2023 Players' Championship and a semifinal appearance at the 2023 Champions Cup, losing out to the Einarson rink at both events. For a second year in a row, Team Fujisawa won the Advics Cup to begin their season, going undefeated to claim the title. Because they defended their title at the national championship, they again represented Japan at the
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, this year finishing second through the round robin with a 6–1 record. In the semifinal, they stole the win against the United States'
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before coming up short against Korea's Gim Eun-ji in the final, settling for silver. In December, the team went undefeated at the 2023 Western Showdown until the semifinal where they lost 6–2 to
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. In the new year, they could not defend their national title, failing to reach the playoff round of the
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. They bounced back with a strong run at the Sun City Cup before losing the final to Isabella Wranå. In Grand Slam play, the team only qualified in one of five events during the 2023–24 season, losing in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Canadian Open to Team Einarson.


Mixed doubles

After the 2018 Olympics, Fujisawa was awarded a wild-card spot in the 2018 Japan Mixed Doubles Curling Championship with fellow Olympian Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi. Despite having never teamed together and having very little mixed doubles experience overall, Fujisawa and Yamaguchi went undefeated to win the championship and the right to represent Japan at the
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, where they would finish fifth overall. Fujisawa and Yamaguchi successfully defended their title in 2019, and represented Japan at the
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. There, they made it to the quarterfinal, where they lost to Australia.


Personal life

Fujisawa graduated from Hokkaido Kitami Hokuto High School in Kitami City in 2010. From then to early 2015, residing in
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, she was employed as a curler and office worker for
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, which has owned a competitive women's curling team based in
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since 2009. Since returning to Kitami, she has been an employee of one of the local companies sponsoring her present team. She is currently an insurance agent. Fujisawa began
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in 2023, and competed in the MOLA cup.


Grand Slam record

Fujisawa and her team became the first Asian team to win a Grand Slam event (excluding defunct Slams) at the 2023 Canadian Open. China's
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had won the 2010 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic, which was considered a Slam at the time.


Former events


Teams


Women's


Mixed doubles


References


External links

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Satsuki Fujisawa
at the
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(archived)
Team Loco Solare, Official site
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