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Ayami Ito
Ayami Ito
Curler
Born	September 3, 2001 (age 23); Sapporo, Hokkaido
Team
Curling club	Hokkaido Bank CS,; Sapporo
Skip	Miku Nihira
Fourth	Momoha Tabata
Second	Sae Yamamoto
Lead	Mikoto Nakajima
Alternate	Ayami Ito
Curling career
Member Association	Japan
World Championship; appearances	1 (2021)
Medal record
Women's Curling
Representing Hokkaido
Japan Curling Championships

Ayami Ito (伊藤彩未, Ito Ayami, born September 3, 2001) is a Japanese curler from Sapporo.^[1] She is the alternate on the Hokkaido Bank curling team, which is skipped by Miku Nihira. At the international level, she represented Japan at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship.^[2]

Career

Ito competed in her first Japan Curling Championships during the 2017–18 season as part of the Aomori Junior team. Her team, with Miori Nakamura, Kyoka Takahashi and Hiyori Ichinohe, fared quite well at the national championship despite being the youngest team in the field. The team went through the round robin with a 5–3 record, enough to qualify for the playoff round. They then lost to the eventual champions Fujikyu in the 3 vs. 4 game and were eliminated in fourth place.^[3] Ito and her teammates were unable to return to the national championship the next two years.

In 2021, she joined the Sayaka Yoshimura Hokkaido Bank Fortius team as their alternate for the 2021 Japan Curling Championships. Through the round robin, the team posted a 5–1 record, only suffering one loss to Satsuki Fujisawa and Team Loco Solare. They then lost to Fujisawa again in the 1 vs. 2 game, before winning the semifinal over Chubu Electric Power to qualify for the final. In the final, the team trailed by one point coming home. They were able, however, able to score two points in the tenth and final end to secure the 7–6 victory and the national championship.^[4] Their win qualified them for the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship, Ito's first international event.^[2] At the Worlds, the team finished in eleventh place with a 5–8 round robin record.^[5]

After their contract expired with Hokkaido Bank halfway through the 2021–22 season, Team Yoshimura formed their own team named Fortius.^[6] Ito was then recruited to the new Hokkaido Bank team, skipped by Momoha Tabata, for the 2022 Japan Curling Championships. At the championship, the team upset multiple top teams such as Chubu Electric Power and Fujikyu, ultimately finishing the round robin in second place with a 6–2 record. This qualified them for the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game against Loco Solare, which they lost 6–4. They then lost in the semifinal to Chubu Electric Power, earning the bronze medal from the championship.^[7]

Personal life

Ito is employed as an office worker.^[1]

Teams

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate
2017–18^[8]	Miori Nakamura	Ayami Ito	Kyoka Takahashi	Hiyori Ichinohe
2019–20	Miori Nakamura	Ayami Ito	Hiyori Ichinohe	Yuuna Harada
2020–21	Sayaka Yoshimura	Kaho Onodera	Anna Ohmiya	Yumie Funayama	Ayami Ito
2021–22	Momoha Tabata	Miku Nihira	Mikoto Nakajima	Ayami Ito
2022–23	Momoha Tabata	Miku Nihira	Mikoto Nakajima	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