| Birth name | Eri Ogihara |
|---|---|
| Birth date | February 12, 2003 (age 23) |
| Birth place | Japan |
| Skip | Honoka Sasaki |
| Fourth | Eri Ogihara |
| Second | Miki Hayashi |
| Lead | Yako Matsuzawa |
| Other appearances | World University Games: 1 (2025), : 3 (, , ), World Junior-B Championships: 1 (2019 (Dec)) |
Eri Ogihara (born February 12, 2003, in Japan) is a Japanese female curler[1] from Karuizawa.[2]
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
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013–14 | Ikue Kitazawa | Seina Nakajima | Minori Suzuki | Eri Ogihara | Ayako Tanimoto | JWCC 2014 (8th)[4][5] | |
| 2016–17 | Misato Yanagisawa | Riko Toyoda | Mayu Sugahara | Eri Ogihara | Chinami Okamura | JWCC 2017 (5th)[6] | |
| 2018–19[7] | Yumi Toda | Eri Ogihara | Sakura Asano | Rito Suyama | |||
| 2019–20 | Minori Suzuki (Fourth) | Eri Ogihara | Yui Ueno | Sae Yamamoto (Skip) | Miyu Ueno | Mitsuki Sato | WJBCC 2019 (Dec) (4th) |
| 2021–22 | Miyu Ueno (Fourth) | Eri Ogihara | Yui Ueno | Sae Yamamoto (Skip) | Yuina Miura | Ayumi Ogasawara | |
| 2022–23 | Yuina Miura | Eri Ogihara | Yui Ueno | Yuuna Sakuma | Ai Matsunaga | ||
| 2024–25 | Eri Ogihara (Fourth) Yuina Miura | Honoka Sasaki (Skip) Kohane Tsuruga | Miki Hayashi Eri Ogihara | Yako Matsuzawa Rin Suzuki | Ai Matsunaga | Ayumi Ogasawara | 2025 WUG |
References
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- ^ "2020 World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide". Curling Canada. Archived from the original on 2020-03-15. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ^ "OGIHARA Eri"
- ^ "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.
- ^ 2014 Japanese Women's Curling Championship - Curlingzone
- ^ 2017 Japanese Women's Curling Championship - Curlingzone
- ^ Toda0-4 at 2018 Karuizawa International - Curlingzone