Naoki Yuasa
Naoki Yuasa 
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| birthday | 24th April 1983 (age 37) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Sapporo , Japan | ||||||||
| size | 177 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg | ||||||||
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| discipline | slalom | ||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||
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| last change: February 22, 2018 | |||||||||
Naoki Yuasa ( Japanese 湯 浅 直樹 , Yuasa Naoki ; born April 24, 1983 in Sapporo ) is a Japanese ski racer . His specialty is slalom .
biography
Yuasa contested his first FIS race in November 1998. Four months later he took part in the Far East Cup for the first time. From the 2002/03 season he was one of the best slalom runners in his country and twice secured the slalom classification in the Far East Cup. Since March 2001 he took part regularly in European Cup races, but had to fight with many failures and was only able to achieve consistently good performances in the 2007/08 season .
After he celebrated his first victories in the Far East Cup at the beginning of 2003 and won his first Japanese championship title on March 3rd, Yuasa competed in a World Cup slalom for the first time on March 8th in Shigakogen . But especially in the first few years he had to struggle with many failures and was only able to qualify for the second round very rarely. He took his first World Cup points on December 13, 2004 with 21st place in the slalom in Sestriere . At his first World Championship participation in Bormio in 2005 , he was the best Japanese in 18th place in slalom.
For the second time in the World Cup, Yuasa scored on December 22, 2005 in Kranjska Gora . There he surprisingly took seventh place. This enabled him to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and, no less surprisingly, also came seventh in the slalom. In March 2006 he became the Japanese champion for the second time. At the 2007 World Championships , like two years before, he finished 18th in slalom. In the World Cup he reached 29th place only once in the 2006/07 season , in the following season he made it into the points four times and was placed in the top 15 twice towards the end of the season. In the 2008/09 season he got two World Cup points, his best result was 14th place in the Schladming night slalom . In his third World Cup participation in Val-d'Isère in 2009 , he finished 29th in giant slalom, in slalom he dropped out in the first run.
In the 2009/10 season , Yuasa achieved his second top 10 result in the World Cup with eighth place in the Schladming night slalom . He also celebrated two victories in the European Cup . In the following 2010/11 season he also achieved his best World Cup result of the winter in tenth on the Schladminger Planai . After not taking part in the 2010 Olympic Games, he finished sixth at the 2011 World Slalom Championship . In the 2011/12 season, Yuasa achieved his best World Cup results to date with two fifth places in the Schladming and Bansko slaloms .
On December 18, 2012, Yuasa reached his first podium in the World Cup with third place in the night slalom of the 3-tre races in Madonna di Campiglio . After the first run he was only in 26th place, but was able to improve to third place with the second fastest time in the second run despite severe back pain due to a herniated disc . He achieved something similar in the slalom of Bormio on January 6, 2014 , when he improved from 21st to 4th place in the second run. In 2016 he reached 8th place in the slalom in Madonna di Campiglio.
successes
winter Olympics
- Turin 2006 : 7th slalom
World championships
- Bormio 2005 : 18th slalom
- Åre 2007 : 18th slalom
- Val-d'Isère 2009 : 29th giant slalom
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 6th slalom
Junior World Championships
- Tarvisio 2002 : 25th combination, 27th slalom, 50th Super-G, 56th descent
World cup
- 12 placements among the top ten, including 1 podium
World Cup ratings
| season | total | slalom | ||
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| space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2004/05 | 132. | 10 | 51. | 10 |
| 2005/06 | 89. | 49 | 31. | 49 |
| 2006/07 | 147. | 2 | 60. | 2 |
| 2007/08 | 91. | 46 | 35. | 46 |
| 2008/09 | 102. | 30th | 37. | 30th |
| 2009/10 | 78. | 70 | 23. | 70 |
| 2010/11 | 101. | 49 | 33. | 49 |
| 2011/12 | 56. | 154 | 20th | 154 |
| 2012/13 | 52. | 143 | 19th | 143 |
| 2013/14 | 68. | 80 | 24. | 80 |
| 2014/15 | 94. | 47 | 28. | 47 |
| 2015/16 | 125. | 17th | 40. | 17th |
| 2016/17 | 52. | 137 | 16. | 137 |
Far East Cup
Discipline evaluation:
- 2002/03 season : 3rd overall ranking, 1st slalom
- 2003/04 season : 2nd slalom
- 2004/05 season : 4th overall ranking, 1st slalom
- 14 podium places, including 11 wins
European Cup
- 2007/08 season : 5th slalom ranking
- Season 2009/10 : 5th slalom ranking
- 8 podium places, including 3 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| February 7, 2006 | Ordina Arcalis | Andorra | slalom |
| January 22, 2010 | Bansko | Bulgaria | slalom |
| January 24, 2010 | Bansko | Bulgaria | slalom |
More Achievements
- three Japanese championship titles in slalom (2003, 2006, 2016)
- 1 podium in the Nor-Am Cup
- 6 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Naoki Yuasa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Naoki Yuasa in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Naoki Yuasa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hirscher wins in Madonna. laola1.at, December 18, 2012, accessed on December 18, 2012.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Yuasa, Naoki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 湯 浅 直樹 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sapporo , Japan |