Go Aoki
Japanese curler (born 1999)
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Go Aoki (青木 豪, Aoki Gō; born December 6, 1999) is a Japanese male curler.[1]
partnerTori Koana
Japanappearances1 (2018)
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| Born | December 6, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mixed doubles partner | Tori Koana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member Association | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship appearances | 1 (2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other appearances | Asian Winter Games: 1 (2025) World Junior-B Championships: 4 (2016, 2018, 2019 (Jan), 2019 (Dec) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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At the national level, he is a 2018 Japan men's champion curler. He is also a 2025 Asian Winter Games gold medalist, where he represented Japan with curling teammate Tori Koana.
Career
Men's
Aoki would find success in men's curling while still of Junior eligibility, throwing fourth stones on team Masaki Iwai, where they won the 2018 Japan Men's Curling Championship and qualified to represent Japan at the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship. At the World Men's, the team would finish the round robin with a 3–9 record, finishing in 11th. Aoki would continue to play in men's events, notably winning silver at the 2022 Japan Curling Championships, but would start to focus on mixed doubles with teammate Tori Koana during the 2024–25 curling season.
Mixed doubles
Aoki started curling with Tori Koana in mixed doubles in 2021, where they found success, finishing third at the 2021 Japan Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Koana and Aoki would continue to find success nationally, finishing second at the 2023 and 2025 national championships, as well as winning multiple events on the world mixed doubles tour. Koana and Aoki first represented Japan in mixed doubles at the 2025 Asian Winter Games, where they won the gold medal, beating South Korea 7–6 in the final.
Koana and Aoki would win their first mixed doubles national title at the 2025 Japanese Olympic mixed doubles curling trials, defeating both the 2024 (Miyu Ueno & Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi) and 2025 (Chiaki Matsumura & Yasumasa Tanida) Japanese mixed doubles champions to win. This gave Koana and Aoki the right to represent Japan at the Olympic Qualification Event where they will need to finish in the top two to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.[2]
Teams
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
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| 2015–16 | Go Aoki (Fourth) | Sora Ebisuya | Kei Kamada | Kazushi Nino (Skip) | Ayato Sasaki | Kozo Ishida | WJBCC 2016 (11th) |
| Go Aoki (Fourth) | Gaku Suzuki (Skip) | Aoi Kobayashi | Shigemi Kikuchi | JMCC 2016 (6th) | |||
| 2017–18 | Go Aoki (Fourth) | Kei Kamada (Skip) | Rinki Shimizuno | Ayato Sasaki | Kazushi Nino | Kozo Ishida, Mami Yamada | WJBCC 2018 (5th) |
| Go Aoki (Fourth) | Masaki Iwai (Skip) | Ryotaro Shukuya | Yutaka Aoyama | Koji Nisato (WCC) | J. D. Lind (WCC) | JMCC 2018  WCC 2018 (11th) | |
| 2018–19 | Go Aoki (Fourth) | Kei Kamada (Skip) | Rinki Shimizuno | Ayato Sasaki | Kazushi Nino | Kozo Ishida | WJBCC 2019 (Jan) (11th) |
| Go Aoki (Fourth) | Masaki Iwai (Skip) | Ryotaro Shukuya | Kouki Ogiwara | Kei Kamada (CWC) | Takayuki Doi | CWC/1 (8th) CWC/3 (7th) JMCC 2019  | |
| 2019–20 | Go Aoki (Fourth) | Kei Kamada (Skip) | Kazushi Nino | Ayato Sasaki | Rinki Shimizuno | Takayuki Doi | WJBCC 2019 (Dec) (5th) |
| Go Aoki (Fourth) | Kei Kamada (Skip) | Ayato Sasaki | Kouki Ogiwara | ||||
| 2021–22 | Go Aoki (Fourth) | Hayato Sato (Skip) | Kei Kamada | Kazushi Nino | Ayato Sasaki | Takayuki Doi | |
| 2022–23 | Go Aoki (Fourth) | Hayato Sato (Skip) | Kouki Ogiwara | Kazushi Nino | Ayato Sasaki | ||
| 2023–24 | Go Aoki (Fourth) | Hayato Sato (Skip) | Kouki Ogiwara | Kazushi Nino | Ayato Sasaki |
Personal life
He started curling in 2010 at the age of 11.[3] He attended Sapporo International University.[4]
