Shuichi Sekiya

Shūichi Sekiya ( Japanese 関谷修一 , Sekiya Shūichi ; born June 11, 1969 in Tsunan , Niigata Prefecture ) is a former Japanese biathlete .

As usual in Japan, Shūichi Sekiya belongs as a biathlete to the "Winter Combat Training Unit" (Tōsenkyō) of the ground self-defense forces . He lives in Tsunan and trains in Sapporo . Sakiya began in 1994 with the biathlon, and has for the start of the 1994/95 season to race the Biathlon World Cup in part. In his first sprint in Bad Gastein he was 93. His first success he achieved in the 1997-98 season , where he participated in the 1998 Winter Olympics from Nagano started. In the sprint he was together with Janno Prants 43rd, with Kyōji Suga , Hironao Meguro and Atsushi Kazama 15th of the relay race. The following season he achieved his best World Cup result with a 46th place in a sprint in Hochfilzen . The next major event was the 1999 Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti , where Sekiya was 71st in the sprint and with Yukio Mochizuki , Hironao Meguro and Kazumasa Takeda 17th in the relay race. For weather reasons parts of the World Cup had to be relocated to the Holmenkollen in Oslo , where the Japanese finished 66th of the individual. After that, he had no further bets at this level. In 2001 he started again in a Continental Cup sprint in Otoineppu .

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	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10				2	2
Scoring				6th	6th
Starts	5	14th	2	6th	27
Status: End of career, with Olympic Games and World Championships, data may not be complete

Shūichi Sekiya in the IBU database (English)
Shūichi Sekiya in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Shūichi Sekiya in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Sekiya, Shuichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	関谷修一 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tsunan (Niigata) , Niigata Prefecture