Chiaki Matsumura

Chiaki Matsumura (松村 千秋, Chiaki Matsumura, born October 26, 1992) is a Japanese curler from Karuizawa Town, Nagano Prefecture. After graduating from Nagano Prefectural Komoro Business High School in 2011, she has been a member of Chubu Electric Power Curling Team, a works team of Chubu Electric Power.[1]

Chiaki Matsumura
Curler
Born (1992-10-26) October 26, 1992
Karuizawa, Nagano
Team
Curling club
  • Chubu Electric Power Curling Team
  • Karuizawa Curling Club, Karuizawa
SkipSeina Nakajima
FourthIkue Kitazawa
ThirdChiaki Matsumura
LeadHasumi Ishigooka
AlternateMinori Suzuki
Career
Member Association Japan
World Championship
appearances		2 (2013, 2019)
Pacific-Asia Championship
appearances		3 (2011, 2012, 2019)
Medal record
Women's Curling
Representing  Japan
Pacific-Asia Championships
2012 Naseby
2019 Shenzhen
Representing Nagano
Japan Women's Championship
2017 Karuizawa
2019 Sapporo
2020 Karuizawa
2018 Nayoro
2021 Wakkanai

Career

Matsumura was a member of the Japanese national women's team during the 2012–13 season, skipped by Satsuki Fujisawa. The team represented Japan at the 2012 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, where they lost in the final to China's Wang Bingyu. Their silver medal placement was enough to earn them a spot at the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship. There, the team just missed the tiebreakers with a 5–6 record. The team defended their national title the following season, however would not represent Japan at the 2013 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. Team Fujisawa did participated in the 2014 Continental Cup of Curling as part of Team World, where they lost to the North Americans.[2]

In February 2017, she won the national Japanese women's curling championship Japan Curling Championships against Team Fujisawa (a.k.a. LS Kitami) and became the champion of Japan.[3] Later that year, she lost the best-of-five Japanese Olympic Curling Trials, three games to one.[4]

In 2019, Matsumura and her rink of Seina Nakajima, Ikue Kitazawa and Hasumi Ishigooka represented Japan at the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship after going undefeated at the 2019 Japanese women's championship. At the world championships, the team squeaked into the playoffs with a 6–6 record, before upsetting the third place Russian team in the quarterfinals. They then lost to Sweden in the semifinal, and lost to South Korea in the bronze medal game, settling for fourth place.[5][6]

Matsumura and her team represented Japan at the 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in Shenzhen, China the following season. After going 6–1 in the round robin and defeating Hong Kong in the semifinal, they lost in the final to China's Han Yu.[7]

Personal life

Her brother Yuta Matsumura is also a curler.

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 2013–14
Masters Q[8]

Former events
Event 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15
Manitoba Lotteries Q[9] DNP Q[10] N/A
Autumn Gold DNP DNP Q[11] SF[12]

Teams

Women's
Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Events
2011–12 Satsuki FujisawaMiyo IchikawaEmi ShimizuMiyuki SatohChiaki Matsumura2011 PCC[13]
2012–13 Satsuki FujisawaMiyo IchikawaEmi ShimizuChiaki MatsumuraMiyuki Satoh2012 PCC,[14] 2013 WCC[15]
2013–14[16][8] Satsuki FujisawaMiyo IchikawaEmi ShimizuMiyuki SatohChiaki Matsumura
2014–15[17] Satsuki FujisawaEmi ShimizuChiaki MatsumuraIkue KitazawaHasumi Ishigooka
2015–16[18] Emi ShimizuChiaki MatsumuraHasumi IshigookaIkue Kitazawa
2016–17[19] Chiaki MatsumuraEmi ShimizuIkue KitazawaHasumi IshigookaSeina Nakajima
2017–18[20] Chiaki MatsumuraEmi ShimizuIkue KitazawaHasumi IshigookaSeina Nakajima
2018–19 Ikue Kitazawa (Fourth)Chiaki MatsumuraSeina Nakajima (Skip)Hasumi IshigookaEmi Shimizu2019 WCC[21]
2019–20 Ikue Kitazawa (Fourth)Chiaki MatsumuraSeina Nakajima (Skip)Hasumi IshigookaEmi Shimizu2019 PCC
2020–21 Ikue Kitazawa (Fourth)Chiaki MatsumuraSeina Nakajima (Skip)Hasumi IshigookaMinori Suzuki
2021–22 Ikue Kitazawa (Fourth)Chiaki MatsumuraSeina Nakajima (Skip)Hasumi IshigookaMinori Suzuki

Mixed doubles
Season Female Male
2017–18[22] Chiaki MatsumuraYoshiro Shimizu
2019–20[23] Chiaki MatsumuraYasumasa Tanida

References
  1. "中部電力｜選手紹介 - チーム紹介". www.chuden.co.jp (in Japanese).
  2. "Team Fujisawa – 2014 WFG Continental Cup of Curling". Curling Canada. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  3. "Japan Curling Championships" (Feb 5, 2017). www.curlingzone.com.
  4. "Curling team LS Kitami wins right to represent Japan at Pyeongchang Games". The Japan Times Online. Sep 10, 2017.
  5. Strong, Gregory (March 15, 2019). "A capsule look at teams competing at the world women's curling championship". National Post. The Canadian Press. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  6. "2019 World Women's Curling Championship Bronze Medal Game". World Curling Federartion. Archived from the original on August 27, 2019. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  7. "China women win Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2019". World Curling Federation. November 9, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  8. "2013 Masters of Curling". www.curlingzone.com. Nov 3, 2013.
  9. "2011 Manitoba Lotteries Womens Curling Classic". www.curlingzone.com. Oct 24, 2011.
  10. "2013 Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Women's Classic". www.curlingzone.com. Oct 28, 2013.
  11. "2013 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic". www.curlingzone.com. Oct 14, 2013.
  12. "2014 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic". www.curlingzone.com. Oct 13, 2014.
  13. "Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2011". results.worldcurling.org. Nov 26, 2011.
  14. "Pacific Asia 2012 Curling Championships". results.worldcurling.org. Nov 25, 2012.
  15. "World Women's Curling Championship 2013". results.worldcurling.org. Mar 24, 2013.
  16. "Asia-Pacific / Olympic Qualifier". www.curlingzone.com. Sep 17, 2013.
  17. "Hub International Crown of Curling". www.curlingzone.com. Oct 20, 2014.
  18. "Stockholm Ladies Cup". www.curlingzone.com. Sep 27, 2015.
  19. "Canad Inns Women's Classic". www.curlingzone.com. Oct 24, 2016.
  20. "Womens Masters Basel". www.curlingzone.com. Oct 8, 2017.
  21. "LGT World Women's Curling Championship 2019 - Teams". World Curling Federation. Retrieved Mar 29, 2019.
  22. "出場選手" [Participating players]. The 11th Zen-Noh Japan Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  23. "Teams". The 13th Zen-Noh Japan Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2020. Archived from the original on February 17, 2020. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
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