Atsuko Tanaka (ski jumper)
Japan Japan (2010 to 2012)
Hokusho University
Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese田中 温 子, Tanaka Atsuko, * January 25, 1992 in Calgary ) is a Canadian ski jumper, which took from 2010 to 2012 for Japan.
Career
Atsuko Tanaka starts for the Altius Nordic Ski Club. She is the daughter of Japanese immigrants, her father was a ski jumper, her mother cross-country skier. At the age of 10, she began in 2001 with the ski jumping, since 2004 it replaces internationally. In June of that year she appeared in Park City on their first jump during the FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, the then- highest racing series in the women's ski jumping at, and was ranked 16th in August 2005 she reached the fourth place in Klingenthal their first single-digit result. Between October 2005 and February 2006, the Canadian had their best-ever career stage in the Continental Cup. In five consecutive jumping she reached single-digit results, including their only previous victory in the Summer Continental Cup in Park City, and a third in Lake Placid. In addition, Tanaka won at the Junior World Championships in 2006 in Kranj behind Juliane Seyfarth the silver medal. After that she could no longer hold up to 2008 this level of performance and seldom erspringen digit results. A second phase of good performance Tanaka had in February and March 2008. In Baiersbronn they won their first Continental Cup jumping in winter and reached several other single-digit results. The Junior World Championships in Zakopane she finished as Eleventh. In the 2008 / 09 season, you get only two top ten finishes. In Parc City she was 9 and 10 in Dobbiaco At the Junior World Championships in Štrbské Pleso it did not occur to. In the 2009/10 season she appeared only in the Continental Cup in Schonach and in Zao and at the Junior World Championships in Hinterzarten, where she was 20th at.
From 2010 to 2012 she jumped for Japan and went for the ski club Hokusho University at the start. She entered the 2010/11 season only in Zao and was ranked seventh They also went to at the Junior World Championships 2011 in Otepaeae and finished the individual competition on the 19th Place. The team competition had to be canceled. Since 2012, she re-enters at the Canadian Ski Association.
At the Canadian Championships in Whistler, she won in 2013 in the competitions of the normal and large hill gold before Alexandra Pretorius and last year's winner Taylor Henrich.
With the Olympic debut of women's ski jumping she finished twelfth and thus was best Canadian.