Kaho Onodera

Kaho Onodera (小野寺 佳步, Onodera Kaho, born November 11, 1991 in Tokoro, Hokkaido) is a Japanese curler from Sapporo. She currently plays third on the Hokkaido Bank FORTIUS curling team skipped by Sayaka Yoshimura.

Kaho Onodera
Curler
Born (1991-11-11) November 11, 1991
Tokoro, Hokkaido
Team
Curling clubHokkaido Bank Fortius, Sapporo, Hokkaido
SkipSayaka Yoshimura
ThirdKaho Onodera
SecondAnna Ohmiya
LeadYumie Funayama
Career
Member Association Japan
World Championship
appearances		2 (2015, 2018)
Pacific-Asia Championship
appearances		2 (2013, 2014)
Olympic
appearances		1 (2014)
Medal record
Women's Curling
Representing  Japan
Pacific-Asia Championships
2013 Shanghai
2014 Karuizawa

Career

Onodera joined the Ayumi Ogasawara team consisting of Yumie Funayama at third, Michiko Tomabechi at lead and Chinami Yoshida as alternate in 2012. The team played in six tour events during the 2012–13 season, qualifying in three of them. They also won the right to represent Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics as they had qualified through the Olympic qualification event. At the games, they finished in fifth with a 4–5 record, just missing the playoffs. They did however defeat former world champions Wang Bingyu of China and Mirjam Ott of Switzerland. Also during the 2013–14 season, they won a bronze medal at the Pacific-Asia Championship in Shanghai. The next season Tomabechi and Yoshida left the team and were replaced by Sayaka Yoshimura and Anna Ohmiya as Funayama moved to alternate. On the World Curling Tour, they would win two events, the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic and the Hub International Crown of Curling. At the 2014 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, they would pick up a bronze medal. This would ordinarily not be enough to qualify Japan for the World Championships, but because Japan was hosting the event, the team represented their country at the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship, Onodera's first Worlds. There, they placed sixth. In 2015, the team won another tour event, the Karuizawa International Curling Championship. The team played in the 2016 Continental Cup of Curling where they were part of the losing Team World squad. They also played in the 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup, the team's first Grand Slam event. They would finish the round robin as the number one seed with a 4–0 record before losing in the quarterfinal.

Team Ogasawara finished second at the Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic the following season.[1] They played in one grand slam, the 2016 GSOC Tour Challenge, losing in a tiebreaker to Anna Hasselborg. The next season was more successful for the team, reaching the semifinals in five of their eleven tour events. After the team lost the final of the 2018 Japan Curling Championships, Ogasawara stepped away from competitive curling. Yoshimura stepped up to skip the team with Onodera at third, Ohmiya at second and Funayama as lead. The team would have immediate success on the tour, winning the 2018 Oakville Fall Classic.[2][3] The team played in two Slams over the course of the 2018–19 curling season, playing in the 2018 National and 2019 Players' Championship, failing to qualify for the playoffs in either event. They also had two runner-up finishes at the Colonial Square Ladies Classic and the Karuizawa International. They would finish third at the 2019 Japanese Curling Championship.

Team Yoshimura had a slow start to the 2019–20 season, only qualifying for the playoffs in three of their first eight events. They reached the semifinals of the 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker and the quarterfinals of both the 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and the 2019 KW Fall Classic. They would find success at the first Grand Slam event of the season however, reaching the playoffs of the 2019 Masters. They would then upset higher ranked teams Jennifer Jones and Silvana Tirinzoni before losing to Tracy Fleury in the final.[4] It marked the first time an Asian team has made it to a grand slam final, excluding defunct events.[5] The team would not qualify in any of the other slams during the season. They once again finished third at the 2020 Japan Curling Championships.

Personal life

Onodera works as a banker.[6]

Grand Slam record
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
Event 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20
Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP F
Tour Challenge DNP DNP DNP T2 Q
The National DNP DNP DNP Q Q
Canadian Open DNP DNP DNP DNP Q
Players' DNP DNP DNP Q N/A
Champions Cup QF DNP DNP DNP N/A

Former events
Event 2014–15
Autumn Gold Q

Teams
Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate
2012–13[7] Ayumi OgasawaraYumie FunayamaKaho OnoderaMichiko TomabechiChinami Yoshida
2013–14 Ayumi OgasawaraYumie FunayamaKaho OnoderaMichiko TomabechiChinami Yoshida
2014–15 Ayumi OgasawaraSayaka YoshimuraKaho OnoderaAnna OhmiyaYumie Funayama
2015–16[8] Ayumi OgasawaraSayaka YoshimuraKaho OnoderaAnna OhmiyaYumie Funayama
2016–17[9] Ayumi OgasawaraYumie FunayamaKaho OnoderaAnna OhmiyaSayaka Yoshimura
2017–18[10] Ayumi OgasawaraKaho OnoderaYumie FunayamaAnna OhmiyaSayaka Yoshimura
2018–19[11] Sayaka YoshimuraKaho OnoderaAnna OhmiyaYumie Funayama
2019–20 Sayaka YoshimuraKaho OnoderaAnna OhmiyaYumie Funayama
2020–21 Sayaka YoshimuraKaho OnoderaAnna OhmiyaYumie Funayama

References
  1. "Ogasawara Runner-Up at 2016 Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic". CurlingZone. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  2. "Sayaka Yoshimura wins Oakville Fall Classic". CurlingZone. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. "WCT Recap: Japanese rinks dominate Oakville Fall Classic". TSN. 3 September 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  4. "Video (full game): 2019 Masters - Final - Sayaka Yoshimura vs Tracy Fleury". CBC Sports. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  5. Jonathan Brazeau (27 October 2019). "Fleury fearless in securing 1st Grand Slam title at Masters". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  6. "2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship Media Guide" (PDF). World Curling Federation. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  7. "Kaho Onodera Past Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  8. "Karuizawa International -- Team Ogasawara - Sapporo, JPN". CurlingZone. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  9. "Japan Curling Championships -- Team Ogasawara - Sapporo, JPN". CurlingZone. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  10. "35th Japan Curling Championships". Japan Curling Association (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  11. "2018 Tour Challenge Tier 2: Women's Teams". Grand Slam of Curling. 31 October 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
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