Kentaro Minagawa
Kentaro Minagawa 
|
|||||||
| nation |
 Japan
|
||||||
| birthday | 17th May 1977 (age 43) | ||||||
| place of birth | Japan | ||||||
| size | 176 cm | ||||||
| Career | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| discipline | slalom | ||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||
| End of career | 2014 | ||||||
| Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup | |||||||
|
|||||||
Kentarō Minagawa ( Japanese 皆川 賢 太郎 , Minagawa Kentarō ; born May 17, 1977 in Niigata Prefecture ) is a former Japanese ski racer . He almost exclusively drove slalom races .
biography
Minagawa first attracted international attention at the 1996 Junior World Championships in Hoch-Ybrig , where he came fifth in slalom and ninth in giant slalom.
He has been taking part in World Cup races regularly since the 1996/97 season and has been among the top ten eight times. He achieved his best result shortly before the start of the 2006 Winter Olympics in the Wengen slalom , in which he came fourth.
He then confirmed his good form in the Olympic competition. Minagawa finished fourth, only three hundredths behind the bronze medalist Rainer Schönfelder . This was the best finish by a Japanese ski racer at the Olympic Games since Chiharu Igaya won a silver medal at the 1956 Winter Games .
In June 2009, Minagawa married freestyle skier Aiko Uemura .
successes
Olympic games
- Turin 2006 : 4th slalom
World championships
- St. Anton 2001 : 10th slalom
Junior World Championships
- Voss 1995 : 12th slalom, 36th giant slalom
- Hoch-Ybrig 1996 : 5th slalom, 9th giant slalom, 55th Super-G
World cup
- 9 placements among the top ten
Continental Cups
- 4 podium places in the European Cup
- 4 podiums in the Nor-Am Cup , including 3 wins
More Achievements
- 13 victories in FIS races
- 4 Japanese championship titles (slalom 1997 and 2009, giant slalom 1998 and 1999)
Web links
- Kentarō Minagawa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Kentarō Minagawa in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Kentarō Minagawa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olympic skiing stars Uemura, Minagawa tie at nuptial podium. Japan Times , June 12, 2009, accessed January 21, 2010 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minagawa, Kentaro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 皆川 賢 太郎 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th May 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niigata Prefecture , Japan |