Go Yamamoto

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Go Yamamoto Nordic combination
Yamamoto at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld

Yamamoto at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld

nation JapanJapan Japan
birthday 27th January 1995 (age 25)
place of birth Toyama Prefecture , Japan
size 175 cm
Career
society Waseda University
Daichi Corporation
status active
Medal table
YOG medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings Youth Olympic Winter Games
bronze Innsbruck 2012 Gundersen
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
bronze Liberec 2013 team
Placements in the World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 5th December 2015
 Overall World Cup 20. ( 2017/18 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 team 0 1 0
last change: January 27, 2020

Gō Yamamoto ( Japanese 山 元 豪 , Yamamoto Gō ; * January 27, 1995 in Toyama Prefecture ) is a Japanese Nordic combined .

Career

Yamamoto first took part in international races in 2012. The Youth Olympic Winter Games in 2012 in the Austrian Innsbruck he won the Gundersen competition the bronze medal. Two months later he made his debut in the Continental Cup of Nordic Combined at a competition in Predazzo , in which he finished 30th. In the 2016/17 season he achieved his only victory in this competition series in Klingenthal .

He competed several times in the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships . He won his only medal in 2013 in Liberec in a team competition with Go Sonehara , Shota Horigome and Takehiro Watanabe .

On December 5, 2015, he made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway . His best result so far in the World Cup was a 23rd place in a Gundersen competition on the large hill, which took place on November 26, 2017 in Kuusamo . On November 25, 2018, he achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup in second place in a team competition at the same place together with Yoshito Watabe , Hideaki Nagai and Akito Watabe .

successes

Youth Olympic Winter Games

Junior World Championships

  • Erzurum 2012 : 4th Gundersen (HS 109/5 km), 9th team (HS 109/4 × 5 km), 31st Gundersen (HS 109/10 km)
  • Liberec 2013 : 3rd team (HS 100/4 × 5 km), 21st Gundersen (HS 100/10 km)
  • Val di Fiemme 2014 : 10th team (HS 106/4 × 5 km), 20th Gundersen (HS 106/10 km), 29th Gundersen (HS 106/5 km)

Continental Cup wins in singles

No. date place discipline
1. December 18, 2016 GermanyGermany Klingenthal Gundersen

statistics

World Cup placements

season space Points
2017/18 020th 261
2018/19 025th 211
2019/20 035. 045

Grand Prix placements

season space Points
2017 027. 48

Continental Cup placements

season space Points
2011/12 052. 062
2012/13 101. 010
2014/15 036. 093
2015/16 063. 044
2016/17 010. 349

Web links

Commons : Gō Yamamoto  - collection of images, videos and audio files