Akito Watabe
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Born | Hakuba, Japan |
May 26, 1988 ||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
Ski club | Kitano Construction Corp.Ski Club | ||||||||||||||||||
World Cup career | |||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | 2005– | ||||||||||||||||||
Individual wins | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Indiv. podiums | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 5 March 2016. |
Akito Watabe (渡部 暁斗 Watabe Akito?, born May 26, 1988) is a Japanese Nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2005. He won a gold medal in the 4 × 5 km team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec and earned his best individual finish of 31st in the 7.5 km sprint at Sapporo in 2007.
Competing in two Winter Olympics, Watabe earned his best finish of sixth in the 4 x 5 team event at Vancouver in 2010 and had his best individual finish of ninth in the 10 km individual large hill event at those same games.
His best World Cup finish was third at a 10 km individual large hill event in Finland in March 2010, until the 2011/2012 season when he started to win World Cup competitions.
During the Winter 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Akito Watabe took home the Silver Medal in the Nordic Combined Individual Gundersen NH / 10 km, Cross-Country event.[1]
World Cup wins
Season | Date | Location | Hill |
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2011–12 | 5 Feb 2012 | Val di Fiemme | HS134 |
18 Feb 2012 | Klingenthal | HS140 | |
26 Feb 2012 | Liberec | HS134 | |
9 Mar 2012 | Oslo | HS106 | |
2013–14 | 15 Mar 2014 | Falun | HS134 |
2014–15 | 6 Mar 2015 | Lahti | HS130 |
14 Mar 2015 | Oslo | HS104 |
References
- ↑ Suskin, Jeremy Akito Watabe Brings Home First Olympic Medal in 20 Years for Nordic Skiing Event 02-12-2014
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