Chinami Yoshida

Curling looks like people sliding stones on ice until you notice that every shot is a negotiation among four players about what the next three shots should look like. Chinami Yoshida sits at the centre of that conversation and rarely stops talking, and her brightness sets the emotional temperature of the whole team. She grew up in Tokoro, Hokkaido, a small town that produces curlers the way other towns produce farmers. After a spell away from the top level she came back, and as third for Loco Solare she took bronze at Pyeongchang and silver at Beijing. A team that laughs while it wins needs someone to start the laughing, and that is her job.

Name (English)

Chinami Yoshida

Name (Japanese)

吉田知那美

Born

July 26, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

Origin

Tokoro, Hokkaidō, Japan

Height

156 cm

Occupation

curler

High school

Kitami City Tokoro Junior High School

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chinami1991/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E7%94%B0%E7%9F%A5%E9%82%A3%E7%BE%8E

Tags

• Hokkaidō
• curler

Last updated

2026-07-26

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.