Yukio Mochizuki

Yukio Mochizuki
Full name	望月 幸 男
Association	Japan
birthday	April 23, 1971
place of birth	Myōkō
Career
job	Sports soldier
society	Tōsenkyō
Admission to the national team	1994 (?)
Debut in the World Cup	1994
status	resigned
End of career	2002
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	42nd ( 1998/99 )
last change: June 12, 2010

Yukio Mochizuki ( Japanese 望月 幸 男 ; born April 23, 1971 in Myōkō , Niigata ) is a former Japanese biathlete . Between 1997 and 2002 he took part in major biathlon events every year.

Yukio Mochizuki from Myōkō was initially a cross-country skier , but switched to biathlon in 1990. For this he entered the "winter combat training unit" (Tōsenkyō) of the ground self-defense forces . At the beginning of the 1994/95 season , the Japanese made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup in a singles in Bad Gastein and was 69. Initially, his performances in this area, for the 1996/97 season the performances began to increase noticeably . In 1997 in Antholz he won his first World Cup points in an individual as 24th. He also took part in the 1997 Biathlon World Championships in Osrblie , where he achieved placements 66 in singles, 46 in sprint, with Kyōji Suga , Atsushi Kazama and Manabu Homma in season 16 and with Kazama, Kazumasa Takeda and Hironao Meguro in team competition eight . The good development came to a halt in the 1997/98 season , so Mochizuki missed the 1998 Winter Olympics in his native Japan. But he was able to compete at the Biathlon World Championships in 1998 in Pokljuka , where the not yet Olympic pursuer was held at the time, in which the Japanese was 41st. Shortly thereafter, he was ninth in a sprint in Hochfilzen and was among the top ten for the first time.

Mochizuki's best season in the World Cup followed. He managed to place himself in the top ten twice, including a fifth place in a mass start race - albeit a B race - in Ruhpolding in 1999, which was also Mochizuki's best career result in the World Cup. The 1999 Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti he finished 31st in the sprint, 47th in the pursuit and with Meguro, Takeda and Shuichi Sekiya 17 with the relay. In the individual, which was relocated to the Holmenkollen in Oslo due to the weather , he was 71. The Biathlon World Championships 2000 also start there, where Mochizuki was 68th in the individual and 87th in the sprint. The relay race was in Lahti , where the Japanese relay with Mochizuki, Meguro, Suga and Shinji Ebisawa finished 17th. In 2001 he took part in his last world championship in Pokljuka, where he was 52nd in the individual and 75th in the sprint. At the start of the 2001/02 season , the Japanese won World Cup points in Hochfilzen as 18th in a sprint for the last time and for the eighth time in his career. Career highlight and also career conclusion were the Olympic Winter Games 2002 in Salt Lake City , where he was 69th in the sprint and with Meguro, Hidenori Isa and Suga season 13. has been.

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	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10					1	4th	5
Scoring	1	4th	1	1	2	25th	34
Starts	21st	46	13	1	2	26th	109

Web links

• Yukio Mochizuki in the IBU database (English)
• Yukio Mochizuki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )