Shiho Nakashima

Shiho Nakashima (中島 志保, Nakashima Shiho, born August 12, 1978 in Yōrō, Gifu) is a Japanese snowboarder who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics and had two World Cup victories.[1] She also competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Women's Half-pipe. Her motto is "Continuity is power."[2]

Shiho Nakashima
Personal information
Born (1978-08-12) August 12, 1978
Yōrō, Gifu
Sport
Country Japan
SportSnowboarding
Event(s)Half-Pipe
Retired2010
Medal record
Women's snowboarding
Representing  Japan
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place2007 ChangchunHalfpipe

Career

Nakashima's first appearances at FIS races started in January 2003, already in March of that year she started for the first time in the World Cup in Sapporo and became sixteenth. She then finished second in the Japanese Championships. In the following two years she took part in the World Cup, but missed the top 10, while she often achieved good results in the low-class FIS races.

In the World Cup, Nakashima achieved the first successes in their special discipline Half-pipe in 2005, when it came several times under the top ten in March and finally triumphed for the first time in December . Having demonstrated her good performances during the 2005/2006 season, she was able to compete in the Japanese team at the 2006 Olympics in Turin , where she also became ninth. After the successful winter 2005/2006, where she became a Japanese champion on the halfpipe and fourth in the Halfpipe World Cup , Nakashima started the 2006/07 season once again and achieved several good placings in the World Cup. At the 2007 Winter Asian Games in Changchun , she won the gold medal in the halfpipe. At the end of the season, she was the sixth place in the halfpipe and the 27th place in the overall World Cup. In the 2007/08 season , they only played three times in the World Cup, but again reached top 10 finishes. Nakashima won the first World Cup of the 2008/09 season . In the further course of the season, she came second in Saas-Fee and in Stoneham , reaching the 16th place in the overall World Cup and the second place in the Halfpipe World Cup. At the 2009 Snowboard World Championships in Gangwon , she finished fifth. The following year, she became a Japanese champion in the halfpipe. Her last international competition, she completed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . There she came in 13th place.

Achievements

Olympic Games
Place Day Year place Competition Winner
9. February 13 2006 ItalyTurin halfpipe United StatesHannah Teter
13. February 18 2010 CanadaVancouver halfpipe United KingdomTorah Bright

World Championship
Place Day Year place Competition Winner
7. January 22 2005 CanadaWhistler halfpipe FranceDoriane Vidal
4. 20 January 2007 SwitzerlandArosa halfpipe SwitzerlandManuela Pesko
5. January 23 2009 JapanGangwon halfpipe ChinaLiu Jiayu

Places in general classification

Places on the podium
  1. CanadaWhistler - December 10, 2005 (Halfpipe) - 1st place
  2. AustriaKreischberg - January 9, 2006 (Halfpipe) - 3rd place
  3. JapanFurano - March 18, 2006 (Halfpipe) - 3rd place
  4. JapanFurano - February 18, 2007 (Halfpipe) - 3rd place
  5. New ZealandCardrona - September 7, 2008 (Halfpipe) - 1st place
  6. SwitzerlandSaas-Fee - October 31, 2008 (Halfpipe) - 2nd place
  7. CanadaStoneham - February 20, 2009 (Halfpipe) - 2nd place

References
  1. FIS biography
  2. "Shiho Nakashima". Vancouver2010.com. Archived from the original on 2010-05-14.
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