Hiromi Suga

Hiromi Suga
Full name	菅 弘 美
Association	Japan
birthday	November 28, 1973
place of birth	Furano
Career
job	Sports soldier
society	Tōsenkyō
Admission to the national team	1994 (?)
Debut in the World Cup	1994
status	resigned
End of career	2002
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	40th ( 1999/2000 )
last change: June 12, 2010

Hiromi Suga ( Japanese 菅 弘 美 , Suga Hiromi ; born November 28, 1973 in Furano , Hokkaidō as Hiromi Seino ( 清 野 弘 美 )) is a former Japanese biathlete . She took part in ten biathlon world championships and Olympic winter games.

Hiromi Suga initially went cross-country skiing , but switched to biathlon in 1991. To do this, she had to go to the "winter combat training unit" (Tōsenkyō) of the ground self-defense forces , as is customary in Japan . At the beginning of the 1994/95 season she made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup in Bad Gastein and was 65th in the sprint race. The first high point of her career was the 1995 biathlon world championships in Antholz , where the Japanese finished 67th in the individual and 53rd in the sprint. In 1996 she won World Cup points for the first time as 20th in a sprint in Osrblie . At the following Biathlon World Championships in 1996 in Ruhpolding , Suga finished 70th in the individual and nine with Mami Shindo , Sakiko Takefushi and Yukari Abe in the relay race. The last World Cup before the 1997 Biathlon World Championships in Antholz was successful . Suga finished ninth in the sprint and not only achieved her first top ten result, but also her best result in the World Cup. With the Japanese season she was also sixth. At the following World Championships in Osrblie, the Japanese was 58th in the individual, 41st in the sprint, 31st in the pursuit, as well as with Shindo, Ryoko Takahashi and Kyoko Yamauchi in the relay race and with Shindo, Takefushi and Takahashi in the team race 15. In domestic Japan were the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano the first Sugas Olympic Games. In the individual she reached 37th place, in the sprint she was 53rd and with Shindo, Mie Takeda and Takahashi in the relay race 14th In the pursuit race based on the Olympic sprint of the Biathlon World Championships 1998 in Pokljuka , Suga finished 44th.

The 1999 biathlon world championships were chaotic due to the weather. In Kontiolahti the sprint could still be carried out, in which Suga came in 58th place, as well as the relay race in which Japan was tenth with Shindo, Takahashi, Tamami Tanaka and Suga. The individual had to be held at Holmenkollen in Oslo , where the Japanese woman was 41st. The 2000 Biathlon World Championships were held at the same location . Suga started in the singles and was 43rd in the sprint, where she was a good 18th, but fell back to the penultimate 48th place after nine shooting errors in the pursuit race. The season in the cast of the previous year was ninth. Other good results followed with the relay in 2000, when Japanese relays with Suga came fourth in Lahti and Antholz. In Pokljuka, Suga took part in the world championships for the last time in 2001 and reached places 30 in the individual, 19 in the sprint, 39 in the pursuit, 27 in the mass start and ninth in the proven relay line-up of the two previous years. The last major event and the end of his career was the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . In the Soldier Hollow competitions , Suga finished 42nd in the individual, 30th in the sprint, and 24th in the pursuit. The season, which appeared for the fourth time at the season's highlight with the same line-up, reached rank 14.

She is married to the biathlete Kyōji Suga .

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10		3	1			16	20th
Scoring	4th	15th	3	1	2	25th	50
Starts	37	60	28	1	2	26th	154
Status : after the end of your career, data may be incomplete

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 清 野 弘 美 セ イ ノ ヒ ロ ミ Hiromi Seino. In: JOC 長野 1998 - 選手 個人 デ ー タ ・ バ イ ア ス ロ ン . Japanese Olympic Committee, 1998, accessed June 13, 2010 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ 菅 弘 美 す が ひ ろ み Hiromi SUGA. In: ソ ル ト レ ー ク シ テ ィ ー オ リ ン ピ ッ ク 情報 [日本 選手 団 プ ロ フ ィ ー ル] . Japanese Olympic Committee, 2002, accessed June 13, 2010 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ 倶 知 安 町 ゆ か り の 選手 . Kutchan City, accessed June 13, 2010 (Japanese). 

Web links

• Hiromi Suga in the database of the IBU (English)
• Hiromi Suga in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )