Miki Kobayashi
Miki Kobayashi 
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 Japan
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| birthday | November 10, 1987 |
| Career | |
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| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2011 |
| Debut in the World Cup | 2012 |
| status | active |
| World Cup balance | |
| last change: March 18, 2014 | |
Miki Kobayashi ( Japanese 小林 美 貴 , Kobayashi Miki ; born November 10, 1987 ) is a Japanese biathlete and former cross-country skier .
Miki Kobayashi competed in her first cross-country skiing race in the Far East Cup . A first high point of her career was participating in the 2007 Junior World Championships in Tarvisio , where she was 68th in the 5-kilometer freestyle and 56th in the pursuit. Further lower-class Far East Cup and FIS races followed by 2010 , in which she repeatedly ran top ten and once in 2008 in Sapporo in the 10-kilometer freestyle on the podium, but did not make the final breakthrough. In 2010 she switched to biathlon.
For the 2011/12 season Kobayashi made her international debut in the IBU Cup and was 71st a sprint in Östersund . In 2013 she won points in the second highest international racing series for the first time in a sprint in Idre in 23rd place . Before that, she made her World Cup debut in Östersund at the beginning of the 2012/13 season and was 91st of an individual. The Japanese achieved her best placement at her biggest international highlight to date, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , where she was 68th in the individual, 81st in the sprint and 13th with Fuyuko Suzuki , Yuki Nakajima and Rina Suzuki .
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 | Season | total |
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| Top 10 | ||||||
| Scoring | 4th | 4th | ||||
| Starts | 3 | 7th | 4th | 14th | ||
| As of March 18, 2014 | ||||||
Web links
- Miki Kobayashi in the IBU database (English)
- Miki Kobayashi in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Miki Kobayashi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kobayashi, Miki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 小林 美 貴 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese biathlete and cross-country skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1987 |