Maho Katsuyama

Maho Katsuyama
nation	Japan
birthday	July 23, 1984
size	160 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
National squad	since 2005
status	resigned
Medal table
Japanese championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Japanese championships bronze 2007 Nagano
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Debut in the World Cup 2007 Overall World Cup 34. 2006/07 Debut North American Cup 2004

Maho Katsuyama ( Japanese 勝 山 真 帆 , Katsuyama Maho ; born July 23, 1984 ) is a former Japanese skeleton pilot .

Maho Katsuyama started playing skeleton in 2002 and has been a member of Japan's national squad since 2005. She drove her first international race in November 2004 in Calgary as part of the Skeleton America's Cup . Katsuyama took ranks 38 and 34 there. In January 2005, she took part in the Winter Universiade 2005 in Igls , where she reached 13th place. A little later she took part in the Junior World Championships in Winterberg and came in 21st place. The next America's Cup races followed in November 2006, again in Calgary. The best result was a 15th place. The Japanese achieved the same result in her first and only skeleton World Cup race in January 2007 in her native Nagano . It was also Katsuyama's last international race. In the overall standings of the season , she finished 34th. At the national championships in 2007 she won the bronze medal.

Web links

• Maho Katsuyama in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japanese Olympic Committee: Japanese Participants in the Winter Universiade 2005, Skeleton