Yūki Nozawa

Yūki Nozawa
nation	Japan
birthday
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
JM medals 0 × 3 × 1 ×
Japanese championships silver 1999 Nagano silver 2000 Nagano bronze 2001 Nagano silver 2003 Nagano
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Debut in the World Cup 1999 Debut North American Cup 2003
last change: July 1st, 2009

Yūki Nozawa ( Japanese 野 沢 悠 樹 , Nozawa Yūki ) is a former Japanese skeleton pilot .

Yūki Nozawa made his debut in Calgary in November 1999 in the Skeleton World Cup and was 27 there. Until 2002 he took part in World Cup races regularly, in Lake Placid in December 2001 he achieved his best result in this racing series with tenth place. In November 2000 he also took part in the first race in the European Skeleton Cup in Igls and finished sixth. In Calgary he also took part in the Skeleton World Championship in 2001 and was 18th. Between 2003 and 2005, Nozawa only competed in the Skeleton America's Cup and never drove to a worse placement than seventh. In 2003 and 2005 he was third three times in Park City , in 2005 he came second twice in Lake Placid behind Mike Cline . The Japanese won the overall standings for the 2005/06 season ahead of Keith Loach and Chris Hedquist .

Nozawa was also successful nationally. Although he could never win the Japanese championship title against Kōshun Tōjō and especially Kazuhiro Koshi , but he finished second in 1999, 2000 and 2003, and in 2001 third.

Web links

• Profile on skeletonsport.com ( Memento from October 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nagano Bobsleigh and Toboggan Association ( 長野 県 ボ ブ ス レ ー ・ リ ュ ー ジ ュ 連 盟 ): NBLF 事務 局 通信 第 10 号 平 成 15 年 1 月 14 日  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.