Kotomi Ishizaki

Kotomi Ishizaki
Curler  ♀
Born	(1979-01-04) January 4, 1979
Team
Curling club	Aomori CC, Aomori
Curling career
World Championship appearances	5 (2000, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010)
Pacific-Asia Championship appearances	10 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018)
Olympic appearances	2 (2002, 2010)
Medal record Pacific-Asia Championships 2000 Esquimalt 2002 Queenstown 2003 Aomori 2015 Almaty 2001 Jeonju 2007 Beijing 2009 Karuizawa 2018 Gangneung 2008 Naseby 2010 Uiseong

Kotomi Ishizaki (石崎 琴美, Ishizaki Kotomi) is a curler from Japan.

She made her World Championship debut at the 2003 Winnipeg World Championships playing lead for Shinobu Aota's team from Japan. She would return to the world championships in 2004 with the same team.

Her next World Championships came in 2008 where the Japanese women (along with Team China) became the first team from the Pacific region to qualify for the Playoffs at the World Championships. Ishizaki and her team, skipped by Moe Meguro defeated Team Switzerland in the 3 vs. 4 Playoff match. In the Semifinal they nearly defeated Team Canada and went to the Bronze Medal match to face a rematch against Team Switzerland. They would lose this match 9 - 7 which would become the second best performance by a Pacific region team at the Curling World Championships.

Kotomi Ishizaki played Lead position for Team Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics. and at the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship.

Teammates

2010 Vancouver Olympic Games

Moe Meguro, Skip

Anna Ohmiya, Third

Mari Motohashi, Second

Mayo Yamaura, Alternate

2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games

Akiko Katoh, Skip

Yumie Hayashi, Third

Ayumi Onodera, Second

External links

• Kotomi Ishizaki at World Curling
• Kotomi Ishizaki at the World Curling Tour (archived)