Akito Watabe
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Career
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 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Akito Watabe took home the silver medal in the Nordic Combined Individual Gundersen NH / 10 km, Cross-Country event.[1]
In the 2018 Olympics, Watabe won the silver medal in the normal hill/10 km Nordic combined competition.
In the 2022 Olympics, Akito Watabe won two bronze medals in the large hill/10 km and Team large hill Nordic combined competition.
Personal life
His wife, Yurie Watabe, is a Japanese freestyle skier, who specialises in halfpipe.[2] Akito's younger brother, Yoshito also competes in Nordic Combined World Cup.
World Cup wins
| Season | Date | Location | Hill |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 5 February 2012 | Template:Flagicon Val di Fiemme | HS134/10 km |
| 18 February 2012 | Template:Flagicon Klingenthal | HS140/10 km | |
| 26 February 2012 | Template:Flagicon Liberec | HS134/10 km | |
| 9 March 2012 | Template:Flagicon Oslo | HS106/10 km | |
| 2013–14 | 15 March 2014 | Template:Flagicon Falun | HS134/10 km |
| 2014–15 | 6 March 2015 | Template:Flagicon Lahti | HS130/10 km |
| 14 March 2015 | Template:Flagicon Oslo | HS104/15 km | |
| 2016–17 | 11 February 2017 | Template:Flagicon Sapporo | HS134/10 km |
| 11 March 2017 | Template:Flagicon Oslo | HS104/10 km | |
| 2017–18 | 25 November 2017 | Template:Flagicon Ruka | HS142/10 km |
| 26 January 2018 | Template:Flagicon Seefeld | HS109/5 km | |
| 27 January 2018 | Template:Flagicon Seefeld | HS109/10 km | |
| 28 January 2018 | Template:Flagicon Seefeld | HS109/15 km | |
| 3 February 2018 | Template:Flagicon Hakuba | HS134/10 km | |
| 10 March 2018 | Template:Flagicon Oslo | HS104/10 km | |
| 24 March 2018 | Template:Flagicon Schonach | HS106/10 km | |
| 25 March 2018 | Template:Flagicon Schonach | HS106/15 km | |
| 2019–20 | 1 March 2020 | Template:Flagicon Lahti | HS130/10 km |
| 2020–21 | 24 January 2021 | Template:Flagicon Lahti | HS130/10 km |
References
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- ↑ Suskin, Jeremy Akito Watabe Brings Home First Olympic Medal in 20 Years for Nordic Skiing Event 2 December 2014
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- 1988 births
- Japanese male Nordic combined skiers
- Living people
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Japan
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen