Shiori Obatake

Shiori Obatake
nation	Japan
birthday	September 30, 1996
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	Sunpark Tsuru
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Grass ski world championships gold Goldingen 2011 slalom
last change: October 22, 2012

Shiori Obatake ( Japanese 尾 畠 詩織 , Obatake Shiori ; born September 30, 1996 ) is a Japanese grass skier . She became world champion in slalom in 2011.

Career

Obatake's first international races were the 2011 World Championship and the Junior World Championship held at the same time in August / September 2011 at Atzmännig near Goldingen in Switzerland . After finishing ninth in the Super-G and fifth in the slalom among the juniors, but not having a giant slalom, she had a big surprise on the third day of the competition when she was more than five seconds ahead of the later overall World Cup winner Zuzana Gardavská Became world champion in slalom. The then 14-year-old Obatake was the first Japanese woman and also the first non-European woman to win a gold medal at the Grass Skiing World Championships that have been held since 1979 . At that time she attended the 2nd middle school in Tsuru and trained in the Sun Park Tsuru Grass Ski Club ( サ ン パ ー ク 都 留 グ ラ ス ス キ ー ク ラ ブ , San Pāku Tsuru Gurasu Sukī Kurabu ). In the further course of the title fights, she still achieved seventh place in the giant slalom, while she did not start in the super combined and failed in the super G of the junior women. After the World Championships, Obatake took part in four FIS races in Japan until the end of the 2011 season, where she finished on the podium three times.

In 2012 Obatake again took part in the Junior World Championship , which this time was held in Burbach , Germany . She was tenth in giant slalom and Super-G and thirteenth in slalom. In the super combination, she was eliminated. In September 2012, she competed again in two FIS races in Japan, in which she was second. Obatake has not started in the World Cup so far.

successes

World championships

• Goldingen 2011 : 1st slalom, 7th giant slalom, 9th Super-G

Junior World Championships

• Goldingen 2011 : 5th slalom
• Burbach 2012 : 10th giant slalom, 10th Super-G, 13th slalom

Web links

• Shiori Obatake in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIS グ ラ ス キ ー 世界 選手 権 大会 日本 初 の 金 メ ダ ル 獲得 . (No longer available online.) Ski Association of Japan, September 8, 2011, archived from the original on October 5, 2011 ; Retrieved November 5, 2011 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.