Megumi Izumi

Megumi Izumi
Full name	泉 め ぐ み
Association	Japan
birthday	March 4th 1983
place of birth	Akita Prefecture
Career
society	tōsenkyō
Trainer	Sakae Murota
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2004
Debut in the World Cup	2004
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: December 3, 2008

Megumi Izumi ( Japanese 泉 め ぐ み , Izumi Megumi ; born March 4, 1983 in Hinai (today: Ōdate ), Akita Prefecture ) is a Japanese biathlete .

Megumi Izumi is a sports soldier and lives in Sapporo . She starts for the "winter combat training unit" of the ground self-defense forces and is trained by Sakae Murota. In 2003 she competed in the Junior European Cup for the first time in Geilo and was tenth in the sprint and eleventh in the pursuit. A mixed season with sixth place in the pursuit of Brusson culminated in the 2004 Junior World Championships in Haute-Maurienne . A ninth place in the individual was the best result there. At the end of the season, she won her first sprint race in Gurnigel .

From the 2004/05 season Izumi competed in the senior biathlon European Cup . Her first race was an individual in Geilo, in which she came in 33rd place. Only a little later she made her debut in a relay race in Beitostølen in the Biathlon World Cup , in which she ran from now on, especially since 2006, with priority. She was nominated for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, but was not used. In her first season, she almost consistently placed around places 80 to 90. The highlight was the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz , where the Japanese achieved a good 58th place in the individual and thus her best result in the World Cup so far. At the Biathlon World Championships 2008 in Östersund , she competed in two races and was 80th in the individual and 83rd in the sprint competition.

In addition to biathlon races, Izumi also sporadically competes in cross-country skiing . So far, she has competed twice in the Continental Cup in Japan. The best result was a 16th place over 10 kilometers in Sapporo .

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 relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					10	10
Starts	10	19th			10	39
Status: after the 2009/2010 season

Web links

• Megumi Izumi in the IBU database (English)
• Megumi Izumi in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)