Ayumi Ogasawara

I'll be honest, curling sneaks up on you, and Ayumi Ogasawara is exactly why. She came up out of Kitami in Hokkaido, which is basically the beating heart of Japanese curling, so you can feel that hometown pedigree in everything she does. There's something I genuinely love about a sport that looks this calm and is secretly a grind of millimeter-perfect weight control, nerve, and reading ice like a chessboard. At 156cm she's not towering over anyone, but the composure is the whole point. And the part that gets me is the pivot to coaching, quietly passing the craft down instead of chasing the spotlight. That's the kind of steady, unflashy excellence I end up rooting for the hardest, honestly.

Ayumi Ogasawara is a Japanese curler and curling coach born on November 25, 1978, in Kitami, Hokkaido. She graduated from Sapporo Gakuin University and built her career both as a competitive athlete and as a coach nurturing the next generation of curlers. Standing 156 cm tall, she is from the Sagittarius sign and the Year of the Horse. She remains one of the figures associated with Hokkaido's curling culture.

Name (English)

Ayumi Ogasawara

Name (Japanese)

小野寺歩

Reading

おがさわら あゆみ

Born

November 25, 1978 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Horse

Origin

Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan

Height

156 cm

Occupation

Curling athlete / Curling coach

University

Sapporo Gakuin University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E7%AC%A0%E5%8E%9F%E6%AD%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q528988

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Curling athlete
• Curling coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

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