Mari Motohashi

Mari Motohashi
Mari Motohashi
Curler
	Motohashi in 2006
Born	June 10, 1986 (age 38); Tokoro, Kitami, Hokkaido
Team
Curling club	Tokoro CC[citation needed],; Kitami, Hokkaido, JPN
Skip	Satsuki Fujisawa
Third	Chinami Yoshida
Second	Yumi Suzuki
Lead	Yurika Yoshida
Alternate	Mari Motohashi
Curling career
World Championship; appearances	6 (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2016)
Pacific-Asia Championship; appearances	6 (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Olympic; appearances	2 (2006, 2010)
Medal record
Women's curling
Representing Japan
World Championships
Pacific Championships
Winter Universiade

Mari Motohashi (本橋麻里, Motohashi Mari) (born June 10, 1986 in Tokoro, Kitami, Hokkaido) is a Japanese curler.

Career

Motohashi was a member of Team Aomori which represented Japan at two Winter Olympics (2006 and 2010). She threw second stones for Ayumi Onodera at the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing 7th, and played second for Moe Meguro at the 2010 Winter Olympics, finishing 8th. She skipped the Japan team at the 2002 World Junior Curling Championships, finishing last. She has also played for Japan at five World Curling Championships: 2004 (7th), 2005 (9th), 2007 (9th), 2008 (4th) & 2010 (11th). Motohashi has won one World Curling Tour event in her career, the 2007 Meyers Norris Penny Charity Classic, playing third for Meguro.

After playing for the Meguro rink from 2007 to 2010, Motohashi began skipping her own team in 2011. She has yet to represent Japan internationally as a skip on the senior level.

Personal life

Motohashi graduated from Nippon Sport Science University. Her nickname is 'Marilyn' named after her first name.

Teammates

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Events
2001-02	Mari Motohashi	Naoko Yamazaki	Megumi Kobayashi	Mina Sasaki	WJCC
2004-05	Yumie Hayashi	Ayumi Onodera	Mari Motohashi	Sakurako Terada	WCC
2005-06	Ayumi Onodera	Yumie Hayashi	Mari Motohashi	Moe Meguro	OG
2006 (Sept-Oct)^[1]	Moe Meguro	Mari Motohashi	Sakurako Terada	Mayo Yamaura
2006-07	Moe Meguro	Mari Motohashi	Mayo Yamaura	Sakurako Terada	PCC, WUG, WCC
2007^[2]	Moe Meguro	Mari Motohashi	Mayo Yamaura	Sakurako Terada
2007-08	Moe Meguro	Mari Motohashi	Mayo Yamaura	Kotomi Ishizaki	PCC, WCC
2008-09	Moe Meguro	Mari Motohashi	Mayo Yamaura	Kotomi Ishizaki	PCC
2009 (Sept-Oct)^[3]	Moe Meguro	Mari Motohashi	Mayo Yamaura	Kotomi Ishizaki
2009-10	Moe Meguro	Ana Ohmiya	Mari Motohashi	Kotomi Ishizaki	PCC, OG, WCC
2011-12	Mari Motohashi	Megumi Mabuchi	Yumi Suzuki	Akane Eda
2012-13	Mari Motohashi	Yurika Yoshida	Megumi Mabuchi	Yumi Suzuki
2013-14	Mari Motohashi	Yurika Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Megumi Mabuchi
2014-15	Mari Motohashi	Chinami Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Yurika Yoshida

Grand Slam record

Event	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15
Autumn Gold	Q	Q	Q	Q	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	Q
Masters	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	DNP	DNP
Colonial Square	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	DNP	DNP
Canadian Open	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Players'	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Key
C	Champion
F	Lost in Final
SF	Lost in Semifinal
QF	Lost in Quarterfinals
R16	Lost in the round of 16
Q	Did not advance to playoffs
T2	Played in Tier 2 event
DNP	Did not participate in event
N/A	Not a Grand Slam event that season

References

External links

Mari Motohashi at World Curling Mari Motohashi at the World Curling Tour (archived)

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[2] ttp://www.worldcurl.com/events.php?task=Event&eventid=1595&view=Team&teamid=29681

[3] ttp://www.worldcurl.com/player.php?playerid=12911&view=Teams

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