Ikuma Horishima

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Ikuma Horishima Freestyle skiing
nation JapanJapan Japan
birthday 11th December 1997 (age 22)
place of birth Ikeda , Japan
size 170 cm
Career
discipline Moguls, dual moguls
status active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Asian Games 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Sierra Nevada 2017 Moguls
gold Sierra Nevada 2017 Dual moguls
Asian Games logo Winter Asian Games
gold Sapporo 2017 Moguls
gold Sapporo 2017 Dual moguls
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup February 23, 2013
 World Cup victories 7th
 Overall World Cup 5. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
 Mughal World Cup 2. (2018/19, 2019/20)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Moguls 5 4th 0
 Dual moguls 2 1 2
last change: March 18, 2020

Ikuma Horishima ( Japanese 堀 島 行 真 , Horishima Ikuma ; born December 11, 1997 in Ikeda ) is a Japanese freestyle skier . He starts in the moguls disciplines, contained moguls and dual moguls. His sister is the freestyle skier Arisa Horishima

Career

Horishima made his debut in Inawashiro in February 2013 in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup . He started in the moguls and dual moguls competition, which he did not finish. At the 2014 Junior World Championships in Chiesa in Valmalenco , he finished 13th in the Moguls and seventh in the Dual Moguls. In the 2015/16 season he reached 20th place in the Mughal World Cup. He came on the podium for the first time at the start of the season in Ruka with third place in the Dual Moguls. In the following season 2016/17 he achieved three top 10 placements in seven World Cup appearances and thus finished 19th in the Moguls discipline. At the end of February 2017 he won the gold medal at the Winter Asian Games 2017 in Sapporo in the Moguls and in the Dual Moguls. At the highlight of the season, the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada , he surprisingly became world champion in both disciplines. In the 2017/18 season, he achieved his first World Cup victory at the Moguls competition in Mont-Tremblant . Two more victories followed in Tazawako and third place in the Moguls World Cup at the end of the season. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he came 11th. In March 2018, he became the Japanese Moguls and Dual Moguls Masters in Sapporo. After finishing sixth in Ruka at the beginning of the 2018/19 season, he came second in Thaiwoo , Mont Tremblant and Tazawako. At the end of the season, he won his fourth World Cup in Shymbulak , finishing fifth in the overall World Cup and second in the Moguls World Cup. At the season highlight, the 2019 World Championships in Park City , he achieved eighth place in the Dual Moguls and fourth place in the Moguls. In March 2019 he was again the Japanese champion in the Dual Moguls in Inawashiro and won bronze in the Moguls and gold in the Dual Moguls at the Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk . Also in the following season he finished fifth in the overall World Cup and second in the Moguls World Cup. He got three wins, two second places and one third place. In February 2020 he won the Japanese Moguls and Dual Moguls Championships in Inawashiro.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Moguls
space Points space Points
2013/14 205. 3 42. 32
2014/15 199 1 44. 12
2015/16 105. 11.75 20th 94
2016/17 100. 13.45 19th 148
2017/18 12. 44.10 3. 441
2018/19 5. 57.44 2. 517
2019/20 5. 63.90 2. 639

World cup

Horishima has achieved 13 podiums in the World Cup so far, including 6 victories:

date place country discipline
20th January 2018 Mont-Tremblant Canada Moguls
March 3, 2018 Tazawako Japan Moguls
4th March 2018 Tazawako Japan Dual moguls
2nd March 2019 Almaty Kazakhstan Moguls
December 14, 2019 Thaiwoo China Moguls
February 6, 2020 Deer Valley United States Moguls
March 1, 2020 Almaty Kazakhstan Dual moguls

Junior World Championships

  • Chiesa in Valmalenco 2014: 7th Dual Moguls, 13th Moguls

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Results of the Winter Asian Games 2017