Hiroyasu Shimizu

Hiroyasu Shimizu
nation	Japan
birthday	February 27, 1974
place of birth	Obihiro
size	162 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
society	Nihon University / Sankyo Seki / NEC
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 1 × S-WM medals 0 × 3 × 3 × E-World Cup medals 5 × 3 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold Nagano 1998 500 m bronze Nagano 1998 1000 m silver Salt Lake City 2002 500 m  Sprint World Championships bronze Ikaho 1993 sprint silver Milwaukee 1995 sprint silver Heerenveen 1996 sprint bronze Calgary 1999 sprint bronze Seoul 2000 sprint silver Inzell 2001 sprint  Individual distance world championships gold Hamar 1996 500 m bronze Warsaw 1997 500 m gold Calgary 1998 500 m bronze Calgary 1998 1000 m gold Heerenveen 1999 500 m silver Heerenveen 1999 1000 m gold Nagano 2000 500 m gold Salt Lake City 2001 500 m silver Berlin 2003 500 m silver Inzell 2005 500 m Individual Distance Asian Championships silver 1997 Obihiro 1000 meters
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup February 6, 1995

Hiroyasu Shimizu (born February 27, 1974 in Obihiro ) is a former Japanese speed skater .

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, he won the gold medal over 500 meters and also the bronze medal over 1000 meters. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , it was enough to win a silver medal over the 500 meters.

In 2001 he was the first Asian to receive the Oscar Mathisen trophy .

In the 2012 general election, Shimizu ran for the Hokkaidōer regional party Shintō Daichi-Shinminshu in the constituency of Hokkaidō 1 against the democratic incumbent Takahiro Yokomichi .

Web links

• Hiroyasu Shimizu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at speed skating news
• Photos by Hiroyasu Shimizu at DESGphoto

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic skate champ Shimizu joins Diet race. (No longer available online.) In: Daily Yomiuri Online . November 25, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 4, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.