Sae Yamamoto (curler)

Sae Yamamoto (山本冴) is a Japanese curler. She currently plays second on the Hokkaido Bank curling team skipped by Momoha Tabata. In 2022, she medaled gold at the World Junior Curling Championships as the skip for the Japanese team.

Early life and education
Yamamoto was born in Saku, Nagano. She graduated from Saku Municipal Asashina Junior High School and Nagano Prefecture Nozawa Kita High School, and currently attends Japan Women's University.

She began curling in fourth grade through the SWAN Project, which was held in Nagano to train Winter Olympic medalists.

Career
In November 2015, Yamamoto was the runner up in the Japan Junior Curling Championship.

At the Japan Curling Championships in February 2016, although she advanced to the playoffs in 3rd place, Yamamoto ultimately placed 4th. She competed in the World Junior Curling Championships the next month in replacement of Miyu Ueno who was absent because of her high school entrance exams; Yamamoto placed tenth.

In May 2016, she joined the Karuizawa Fire Bomber as a first-generation student of the Curling Elite Academy opened by Sports Community Karuizawa Club. In August 2019, Karuizawa Fire Bomber disbanded after the JCA Jr. training camp.

In May 2022, Yamamoto won the first Japanese gold medal for the World Junior Curling Championship.

Yamamoto joined the Hokkaido Bank Women's Curling Club in November 2022.