Momoha Tabata

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Momoha Tabata
Curler
Momoha Tabata holds a broom while looking down at a curling stone
Tabata at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Born (2002-08-08) 8 August 2002 (age 23)
Team
Curling clubHokkaido Bank, Sapporo
SkipMiku Nihira
FourthMomoha Tabata
SecondSae Yamamoto
LeadMikoto Nakajima
Curling career File:Curling pictogram.svg
Member AssociationFile:Flag of Japan.svg Japan
Medal record
Curling
Representing File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2024 Lohja
Winter Youth Olympics
Silver medal – second place 2020 Lausanne Mixed team
Representing File:Flag of Hokkaido Prefecture.svg Hokkaido
Japan Curling Championships
Silver medal – second place 2024 Sapporo
Silver medal – second place 2025 Yokohama
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Tokoro

Momoha Tabata (Japanese: 田畑百葉, Hepburn: Tabata Momoha; born 8 August 2002) is a Japanese curler. She currently throws fourth stones on the Hokkaido Bank curling team. At the international level, Tabata medaled silver at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics as the third on the Japanese mixed team.

Early life and education

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Tabata was born in Ebetsu, Hokkaido. She attended Hokkaido Ohasa High School (ja).[1] In sixth grade, she applied for and was accepted to the Hokkaido Talent Athlete Discovery and Development Project at the recommendation of her parents.[2] Alongside curling, Tabata did track and field during middle and high school.[3]

Career

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In the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Tabata medaled silver as the third on the Japanese team in the mixed team event.[4] She was also the captain of the Japanese national team.[5] Tabata also skipped for the Sapporo Association team at the Japan Junior Curling Championship (ja) where she medaled gold.[6]

In April 2021, Tabata joined the Hokkaido Bank Fortius team, led by Sayaka Yoshimura, as an alternate.[7]

Tabata participated in the opening ceremony for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as one of the flagbearers of the Japanese flag alongside Yoshinobu Miyake and Naoko Takahashi among others.[8]

In December 2021, she left Fortius to become a founding member of the Hokkaido Bank Women's Curling Club after Team Yoshimura left Hokkaido Bank following the expiration of their contract.[9]

At the 2022 Japan Curling Championships, Tabata's team finished the round robin in second place, qualifying them for the 1 vs. 2 playoff game against Loco Solare, which they lost. After losing in the semifinal to Chubu Electric Power, they medaled bronze.

At the 2023 Japan Curling Championships, Tabata's team ranked fifth in the round robin and thus overall.[10]

Grand Slam record

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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 2024–25 2025–26
Masters QF QF
Tour Challenge T2 Q
The National Q Q
Canadian Open Q SF
Players' Q

Teams

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Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate
2017–18 Momoha Tabata Miku Nihira Mikoto Nakajima (ja) Yui Ozeki
2018–19 Momoha Tabata Miku Nihira Mikoto Nakajima Yui Ozeki
2019–20 Momoha Tabata Honoka Sasaki (ja) Mikoto Nakajima Mina Kobayashi
2020–21 Momoha Tabata Mina Kobayashi Mikoto Nakajima Miku Nihira Natsuko Ishiyama (ja)
2021–22 Sayaka Yoshimura Kaho Onodera Anna Ohmiya Yumie Funayama Momoha Tabata
Momoha Tabata Miku Nihira Mikoto Nakajima Ayami Ito
2022–23 Momoha Tabata Miku Nihira Mikoto Nakajima Sae Yamamoto Ayami Ito
2023–24 Momoha Tabata Miku Nihira Sae Yamamoto Mikoto Nakajima Ayami Ito
2024–25 Momoha Tabata (Fourth) Miku Nihira (Skip) Sae Yamamoto Mikoto Nakajima Ayami Ito
2025–26 Momoha Tabata (Fourth) Miku Nihira (Skip) Sae Yamamoto Mikoto Nakajima

References

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  • Momoha Tabata at the World Curling Federation
  • Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
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