Shin'ichi Tanaka

This article is about the ski jumper Shin'ichi Tanaka. For other people, see Shinichi Tanaka .

Shin'ichi Tanaka
nation	Japan
birthday	May 15, 1959
size	168 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
society	Taku Gin
National squad	since 1980
status	resigned
End of career	1989
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 12, 1980
Overall World Cup	26. ( 1986/87 )

Shin'ichi Tanaka ( Japanese 田中 信 一 , Tanaka Shin'ichi ; * May 15, 1959 ) is a former Japanese ski jumper .

On January 12, 1980, he jumped for the first time in the ski jumping World Cup . In his first competition in Sapporo , he reached ninth place and thus won his first World Cup points. In the following years he jumped regularly in the Four Hills Tournament , but remained unsuccessful. It was not until January 1987 that he again reached places in the top ten in Sapporo and landed on 4th and 5th place. It was the highest ranking in his career. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1987 in Oberstdorf , Tanaka reached 57th place on the normal hill and 55th place on the large hill. After the World Cup he also reached the Finnish Lahti and Swedish Falun points World Cup and finished the 1986-87 season in 26th place in the overall World Cup standings.

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary Tanaka reached 52nd place on the normal hill and 47th place on the large hill. In team jumping he was only eleventh and last together with Katsushi Tao ( 田尾 克 史 ), Masaru Nagaoka ( 長 岡 勝 ) and Akira Satō ( 佐藤 晃 ).

Almost two years after the Games, Tanaka took part again in a World Cup competition in Sapporo in December 1989 , before ending his active ski jumping career.

successes

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1979/80	79.	07th
1986/87	26th	28

Web links

• Shin'ichi Tanaka in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Shin'ichi Tanaka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )