is a Japanese curler. She is a former World Junior champion.

Career

Junior

Ueno first represented Japan at the 2016 World Junior B Curling Championships, where she was the alternate for the team, which was skipped by Ayano Tsuchiya. There the team finished in second place, though Ueno did not play in any games. This qualied Japan for the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships, where Ueno played

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, replacing her sister

Miyu Miyu is a unisex Japanese given name. Written forms Miyu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *自由, "self, reason" *美侑, "beauty, assist" *美結, "beauty, bind" *美夢, "beauty, dream" *美夕, "beauty, evening" ...

who could not play due to having high school entrance exams. At the World Juniors, the team finished in last place with an 0–9 record. Ueno was the second on the Japanese team (skipped by Sae Yamamoto) for the 2019–20 season. That season, the team won the World Junior-B Curling Championships and represented Japan at the

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. There, the finished in fourth place. Ueno played second on the Japanese team (skipped by Yamamoto, who threw lead rocks) at the 2022 World Junior Curling Championships. There, the team finished the round robin with a 6–3 record. In the playoffs, the team won both of their games, including beating Sweden (skipped by Moa Dryburgh) in the final, to win the gold medal. It was the first time Japan won a gold medal in any curling discipline. The following season, played second again for Japan at the

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, this time on a team skipped by

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. There, the team finished the round robin with another 6–3 record. In the playoffs, they defeated

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(skipped by Xenia Schwaller) in the semifinals, but lost in the gold medal game to

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( Fay Henderson). Ueno played for Japan again at the

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, this time as the alternate, on a team skipped by

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. There, the team finished round robin play with a 7–2 record. In the semifinals, they beat Norway's Torild Bjørnestad rink. In the final, they faced-off against Xenia Schwaller and Switzerland again, but this time could not beat her, settling for another silver medal. Even though she was the team's alternate, Ueno played in seven matches.

Women's

In her last season of juniors, Ueno also played women's curling, playing

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for her sister Miyu's team. In just their first season together, the rink won the

2024 Japan Curling Championships The 2024 Japan Curling Championships (branded as the 41st Zen-Noh Japan Curling Championships) were held from January 28 to February 4 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The winning teams earned the right to repres ...

, beating Miky Nihira in the final. The win earned the team the right to represent Japan at the 2024 World Women's Curling Championship, where they went 3–9.

Personal life

Ueno is currently an environment and tourism student at

Nagano University is a public university in Ueda, Nagano, Japan, established in 1966. A private university Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. However, they ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ueno, Yui Living people 2002 births Sportspeople from Nagano (city) Curlers from Nagano Prefecture Japanese female curlers 21st-century Japanese sportswomen