Anna Ohmiya

Anna Ohmiya (近江谷 杏菜) is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido.

It was the first time they hadn't won gold since 2006.

Ohmiya made her international debut for Japan at the 2007 Pacific Junior Curling Championships, skipping her own team of Chiaki Matui, Megumi Tabusa, Akane Eda and Kiiko Kawaguchi.

There, the team finished in last place with a 1–5 record.

For the 2007–08 season, Ohmiya joined the reigning Japanese champions Team Aomori as their alternate.

The team, skipped by Moe Meguro, competed in the 2007 Pacific Curling Championships where they won the silver medal, qualifying Japan for the 2008 World Women's Curling Championship.

She also won the national championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010 as a member of Team Aomori.

They then won the 2008 Japan Curling Championships to qualify for the World Championship.

At the Worlds, the team qualified Japan for the playoffs for the second time in history.

After a 7–4 record round robin record, they beat Denmark's Angelina Jensen 7–3 in a tiebreaker to qualify for the playoff round.

They then played Switzerland's Mirjam Ott in the 3 vs. 4 game where they won 6–4.

This qualified them for the semifinal where they narrowly lost to Jennifer Jones of Canada 9–8 and then went on to lose the bronze medal game to Switzerland, finishing in fourth.

The next season, Team Meguro again represented Japan at the 2008 Pacific Curling Championships.

After a 6–2 round robin record, they lost to South Korea's Kim Mi-yeon in the semifinal game, earning the bronze medal.

Despite going on to defend their title and win the 2009 Japanese national title, their third place finish was not enough to qualify them for the 2009 World Women's Curling Championship.

The 2009–10 season saw a lineup change for Team Aomori with Ohmiya moving up to play third on the team.

As they were the two-time defending national champions, the team qualified for the final round of the 2009 Japanese Olympic Curling Trials to determine who would represent Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

There, they won all four of their games over Team Nagano to qualify for the Olympic Games.

At the Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Team Aomori led Japan to a 3–6 round robin record, placing eighth overall at the event.

In their three wins, they defeated Great Britain, Russia and the United States.

Also during the 2009–10 season, the team represented Japan at the 2009 Pacific Curling Championships where they went through the round robin with a 6–2 record and then beat South Korea in the semifinal.

She competed for Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, placing eighth.

At the international level, she has represented Japan at four World Women's Curling Championship and six Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in, , , , and , winning the gold medal in 2021.

They would lose in the final 10–3 to China's Wang Bingyu, however, had done enough to qualify Japan for the 2010 World Women's Curling Championship, which they would represent Japan at after again winning the Japanese Curling Championships.

They would not have a good performance at the World Championship, finishing in eleventh place with a 2–9 record.

Team Aomori skip Moe Meguro retired following the season and third Mari Motohashi left the team to move to Hokkaido.

With only Ohmiya, Kotomi Ishizaki and Mayo Yamaura left on Team Aomori, they added Shinobu Aota to the team as their new skip.

In their first season together, the team finished second at the International Bernese Ladies Cup for the second year in a row.

They also represented Japan at the 2010 Pacific Curling Championships where they won the bronze medal which was not enough to qualify for the 2011 World Women's Curling Championship.

At the 2011 Japan Curling Championships, they could not repeat as national champions, losing in the final to Chubu Electric Power, skipped by Satsuki Fujisawa.

The team remained together for two more seasons but did not see successful results which led to Ohmiya leaving the team at the end of the 2012–13 season.

After taking a season off, Ohmiya moved from Aomori to Hokkaido to join the Ayumi Ogasawara Hokkaido Bank Fortius curling team who were the top ranked team in Japan at the time.

The team also included Sayaka Yoshimura at third, Kaho Onodera at second and Yumie Funayama as the alternate.

On the World Curling Tour, they would win two events, the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic and the Hub International Crown of Curling.

Team Ogasawara represented Japan at the 2014 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Ohmiya's first appearance at the event in four years.

After a 5–3 round robin record, they lost to China's Liu Sijia in the semifinal.

They were, however, able to pick up the bronze medal against New Zealand's Chelsea Farley.

She is the second on the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2015 and 2021.

This would ordinarily not be enough to qualify Japan for the World Championships, but because Sapporo was hosting the event, Japan qualified for the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship.

The team then competed in their national championship to determine who would represent Japan at the World Championship.