Atsushi Kazama

Atsushi Kazama
Full name	風 間 淳
Association	Japan
birthday	March 3, 1964
place of birth	Irihirosis
Career
job	soldier
society	Tōki Sengi Kyōikutai
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Asian Games Medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Winter Asian Games bronze 1990 Sapporo sprint
World Cup balance

Atsushi Kazama ( Japanese 風 間 淳 , Kazama Atsushi ; born March 3, 1964 in Irihirose (today: Uonuma ), Niigata Prefecture ) is a former Japanese biathlete .

Atsushi Kazama lives in Irihirose and trains in Sapporo . The soldier started biathlon in 1985. As is customary in Japan, he was a biathlete in the "winter combat training unit" of the ground self-defense forces . He took part in his first biathlon world championships in 1989 in Feistritz an der Drau and was 38th in the sprint and 62nd in the individual. At the Winter Asian Games in Sapporo in 1990 , Kazama won the bronze medal in the sprint behind Wang Weiyi and Misao Kodate . The following year , the World Championships were again the major event of the year for the Japanese. He finished 52nd in the individual and 50th in the sprint. Next major event were Kazamas first Winter Olympics , the 1992 in Albertville were held. At the races in Les Saisies he was 63rd in the individual and 78th in the sprint race. In 1993 in Borovets he was 74th of the individual, 35th of the sprint and with Misao Kodate, Manabu Homma and Kyōji Suga 20th of the relay race. 1995 came in Antholz a 32nd place in the sprint and with Suga, Kodate and Kazumasa Takeda again reached 20th place in the relay race.

In the mid-1990s, Kazama had its toughest time in the World Cup. In the 1995/96 season he achieved several placings among the top 20th. The highlight was again the 1996 World Championships in Ruhpolding , where he was 23rd of the individual, came 16th in the sprint and 16th with Suga, Homma and Kodate. of the relay race. The most successful season was 1996/97 . At the 1997 Biathlon World Championships in Nagano , he achieved his best international results. With a ninth place in the sprint and seventh place in the pursuit, he was among the top ten only times in individual races. He was also eighth with Yukio Mochizuki , Takeda and Hironao Meguro with the team and with Mochizuki, Suga and Homma Season 16. The high point and at the same time the end of his career were the 1998 Winter Olympics in his Japanese homeland. In Nagano he came in sprint to 61st place, was 45th of the individual and with Suga, Meguro and Shūichi Sekiya as the last runner of the season 15.

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
• Relay: including mixed relay

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10		1	1		1	2	5
Scoring	3	4th	1		2	9	19th
Starts	24	32	5		2	9	72
Status : end of career, data not complete

Web links

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