Yoshito Watabe

Yoshito Watabe
Watabe at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld
nation	Japan
birthday	4th October 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Hakuba , Japan
size	170 cm
Weight	58 kg
job	college student
Career
society	Hakuba High School Ski Team Kitano Construction Corporation SC
National squad	since 2007
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships bronze Lathi 2017 Team sprint
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 10, 2009
Overall World Cup	15th ( 2012/13 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 0 1  team 0 1 2
Placements in the Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	July 21, 2012
Overall rating	12. ( 2019 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 0 0 1
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	February 15, 2008
Overall ranking COC	24. ( 2009/10 )
last change: January 25, 2020

Yoshito Watabe ( Japanese 渡 部 善 斗 , Watabe Yoshito ; born October 4, 1991 in Hakuba ) is a Japanese Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Watabe made his international debut in 2008 in the Nordic Combined World Cup B. From January 2009 he started in the Continental Cup . At the Junior World Championships in Zakopane in 2008 he had previously achieved 13th place with the team and 26th place in the sprint. On January 10th, 2009 he made his debut in the World Cup in Val di Fiemme . At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2010 in Hinterzarten , Watabe just missed the medal ranks in fourth place in the team competition. In the individual competition over 5 km he reached eleventh place, over 10 km the fourteenth. On January 23, 2010 Watabe won World Cup points for the first time in his career at Gundersen in Schonach . At the 2013 World Championships , he finished fourth in the team competition with Japan. At the 2015 World Championships , he reached sixth and seventh place in the individual competitions. His best World Cup season so far was 2012/13 , which he finished in 15th place. That winter he also achieved his only individual podium finish to date when he finished third in Oslo. With his brother he won the bronze medal in the team sprint at the 2017 World Championships in Lahti .

He is the younger brother of the Nordic combiner Akito Watabe .

statistics

Watabe at the World Cup in Ramsau 2016

Placements at the Olympic Winter Games

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NS	Gundersen GS	team
2014 Sochi	15th	35.	05.
2018 Pyeongchang	12.	20th	04th

Placements at world championships

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen NS	Gundersen GS	Team sprint	team
2013 Val di Fiemme	16.	12.	-	04th
2015 Falun	07th	18th	06th	06th
2017 Lathi	44.	15th	03.	04th
2019 Seefeld	19th	16.	04th	04th

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2009/10	63.	004th
2010/11	53.	003
2011/12	31.	155
2012/13	15th	310
2013/14	32.	097
2014/15	18th	223
2015/16	28.	112
2016/17	24.	246
2017/18	21st	239
2018/19	22nd	258
2019/20	29	082

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2012	23.	091
2014	16.	058
2015	17th	060
2016	16.	076
2017	23.	065
2018	19th	077
2019	12.	122

Web links

Commons : Yoshito Watabe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Yoshito Watabe in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Yoshito Watabe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Yoshito Watabe on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)