Satoru Terao
Satoru Terao 
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| birthday | July 25, 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Toyota | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 173 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| society | Toyota Motor Corporation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Futoshi Kodera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pers. Best times | 500 m - 41.686 sec (Nov. 2, 2005 in Spišská Nová Ves ) 1000 m - 1: 26.706 min (Feb. 10, 2005 in Hangzhou ) 3000 m - 4: 55.870 min (Oct. 31, 1999 in Provo ) |
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| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Satoru Terao ( Japanese 寺 尾 悟 , Terao Satoru ; born July 25, 1975 in Toyota , Aichi Prefecture ) is a Japanese short tracker.
Terao took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer for the first time in 1994 at the age of 18 , where short track was only an Olympic discipline for the second time. Here he just missed the podium over 1000 meters in fourth, and he was also fifth with the Japanese relay. In 1996 and 1997 he took part in the short track world championships for the first time. While he did not reach a single final in 1996, he won the bronze medal over 500 meters and the silver medal with the relay in 1997. In 1997 Terao also started for his country for the first time at the Team World Cup, where he achieved good results and helped to lead his country to second place. He was also able to qualify for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . In these, however, he was not as successful as four years earlier, only with the relay he managed a final placement in fifth. For this he won silver at the 1998 World Championships over 1000 meters.
A year later he even won the World Championships in Vienna over this distance, and he also won two silver medals over 1500 meters and 3000 meters at this event. At the team world championship of the year, the Japanese team finished third, again Terao contributed with good results. In April 1999 he started in the Short Track World Cup for the first time , where he was able to triumph in his first 500 meter race. Also in the 1999/2000 season he achieved a number of podium finishes and a few victories, with the most successful at his home World Cup in Nobeyama ( Nagano Prefecture ), with three of four possible victories. In March 2000 he won two bronze medals at the world championship again. The 2000/01 season began less successfully for him because he only reached the final once in his first races. Even after that, he managed only one podium result in the entire World Cup winter, for which he won silver over 1500 meters at the 2001 World Cup. The 2001/02 World Cup season was again comparatively unsuccessful with only a second place, but Terao qualified for the third time in a row for the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City . There he achieved two fifth places with the relay and over 500 meters, but again missed a medal.
Terao also remained medalless at the other major events in 2002. At the 2002/03 Short Track World Cup, he also failed to win for the third time in a row and only made it to the podium once with the relay. He was also unsuccessful at the major events in 2003, the 2003/04 and 2004/05 World Cups were similar, where he was moderately successful and slipped to 24th and 36th place in the overall World Cup. After all, Terao achieved his first individual podium finish in three years in 2005; in contrast to the previous year, he took part in the world championship again. Just in time for the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , his results improved again, so that he finished fifth in the overall World Cup. Although he could calculate his chances of a top place, he also missed a medal in his fourth Olympic Games, but won the B-final over 500 meters and came in sixth.
While Terao started at only two of six possible World Cup stations in the 2006/07 season, did not achieve good results and failed in most of the races of the world championship at the latest in the quarter-finals, the 2007/08 season was more successful for him. With two third ranks over 500 meters and a new point system that weighted good placements more heavily, he was fifth in the overall 500-meter World Cup and sixteenth in the 1000-meter World Cup. He also finished fifth over 500 meters at the 2008 World Cup. In the Short Track World Cup 2008/09 Terao also started properly with two ninth places on the 1000 meter distance.
Although he had achieved successes on the longer distances at the beginning of his career, Terao now only competes on the two short distances, 500 meters and 1000 meters. In addition to the short track, he also works with the abacus , with which he has now achieved the 1st kyū . He also has a 4th Dan in Japanese calligraphy .
Web links
- Teraos website (Japanese)
- Results up to 2006 on sportresult.com
- Results from 2007 on the-sports.org
- Satoru Terao in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 11 Questions ( Memento of April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on World Short Track
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Terao, Satoru |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 寺 尾 悟 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese short tracker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toyota |