Mari Motohashi

Mari Motohashi (本橋 麻里, Motohashi Mari; born 10 June 1986) is a Japanese curler. She currently plays third on Team Honoka Sasaki.

Mari Motohashi
Curler
Motohashi in 2010
Born	(1986-06-10) 10 June 1986 (age 39) Kitami, Japan
Team
Curling club	Loco Solare CC, Kitami, Japan
Skip	Honoka Sasaki
Third	Mari Motohashi
Second	Miki Hayashi
Lead	Mayumi Saito
Alternate	Yako Matsuzawa
Curling career
Member Association	Japan
World Championship appearances	6 (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2016)
Pacific-Asia Championship appearances	8 (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017)
Olympic appearances	3 (2006, 2010, 2018)
Medal record Women's Curling Representing  Japan Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang Team World Championships 2016 Swift Current Pacific-Asia Championships 2003 Aomori 2004 Chuncheon 2007 Beijing 2009 Karuizawa 2017 Erina 2006 Tokyo 2008 Naseby 2016 Uiseong Winter Universiade 2007 Pinerolo Asian Winter Games 2017 Sapporo

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).

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

On the World Curling Tour, Motohashi won the 2007 Meyers Norris Penny Charity Classic and the 2009 Twin Anchors Invitational while playing for Meguro, and later skipped her own rink to win the 2014 Avonair Cash Spiel.

Founded own rink "Loco Solare", a.k.a. "LS Kitami" in her hometown Tokoro, Kitami in Aug. 2010. The team members are all local members but achieved international success as the 2nd place in the 2016 World Women's Curling Championship in Swift Current.

Motohashi was part of the Japanese team that won the 2018 Olympics women curling bronze medal.^[1]

In June 2018, Motohashi announced that she would rest for a while from a top curling player and concentrate on training young players.^[2]

In 2021, she took over the Miki Hayashi rink as their skip.^[3]

Personal life

Motohashi graduated from Nippon Sport Science University. Her nickname is 'Marilyn' named after her given name. Holding Teacher's License for Junior High School - Grade 2 in Japan (health and physical training). She was awarded as an honorary citizen of Kitami City.

Teammates

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Events
2001–02	Mari Motohashi	Naoko Yamazaki	Megumi Kobayashi	Mina Sasaki	Anna Ohmiya	2002 WJCC[4]
2003–04	Shinobu Aota	Yukari Okazaki	Eriko Minatoya	Kotomi Ishizaki	Mari Motohashi	2003 PCC,[5] 2004 WCC[6]
2004–05	Yumie Hayashi	Ayumi Onodera	Mari Motohashi	Sakurako Terada	Ai Kobayashi	2004 PCC,[7] 2005 WCC[8]
2005–06	Ayumi Onodera	Yumie Hayashi	Mari Motohashi	Moe Meguro	Sakurako Terada	2006 OG[9]
2006–07	Moe Meguro	Mari Motohashi	Mayo Yamaura	Sakurako Terada	Asuka Yogo	2006 PCC, 2007 WUG, WCC[10]
2007–08	Moe Meguro	Mari Motohashi	Mayo Yamaura	Kotomi Ishizaki	Anna Ohmiya	2007 PCC, 2008 WCC[11]
2008–09	Moe Meguro	Mari Motohashi	Mayo Yamaura	Kotomi Ishizaki	Anna Ohmiya	2008 PCC[12]
2009–10	Moe Meguro	Anna Ohmiya	Mari Motohashi	Kotomi Ishizaki	Mayo Yamaura	2009 PCC, 2010 OG, WCC[13]
2010–11	Mari Motohashi	Yurika Yoshida	Megumi Mabuchi	Akane Eda	Yumi Suzuki
2011–12[14]	Mari Motohashi	Megumi Mabuchi	Yumi Suzuki	Akane Eda	Yurika Yoshida
2012–13[15]	Mari Motohashi	Yurika Yoshida	Megumi Mabuchi	Yumi Suzuki	Akane Eda
2013–14[16]	Mari Motohashi	Yurika Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Megumi Mabuchi
2014–15[17]	Mari Motohashi	Chinami Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Yurika Yoshida	Megumi Mabuchi
2015–16	Satsuki Fujisawa	Chinami Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Yurika Yoshida	Mari Motohashi	2016 WCC[18]
2016–17	Satsuki Fujisawa	Chinami Yoshida	Mari Motohashi	Yurika Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	2016 PCC,[19] 2017 AWG[20]
2017–18	Satsuki Fujisawa	Chinami Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Yurika Yoshida	Mari Motohashi	2017 PCC,[21] 2018 OG[22]
2021–22	Mari Motohashi	Yako Matsuzawa	Miki Hayashi	Mayumi Saito	Ayumi Aoki
2022–23	Honoka Sasaki	Mari Motohashi	Miki Hayashi	Ayuna Aoki	Mayumi Saito
2023–24	Honoka Sasaki	Mari Motohashi	Miki Hayashi	Mayumi Saito	Yako Matsuzawa

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
Players'	DNP	DNP	QF
Champions Cup	Q	DNP	DNP

Former events

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	Q	DNP	DNP	DNP	Q