Go Tanaka

Gō Tanaka (田中 豪Japanese, Tanaka Gō; born October 6, 1983 in Sapporo ) is a Japanese hockey player, who is since 2010 in the Tohoku Free Blades Ice Hockey League in Asia under contract.

  • 2.1 International

Career

Gō Tanaka began his career as a hockey player with the Seibu Prince Rabbits, for which he was active from 2006 to 2009 in the Asia League Ice Hockey. With the Rabbits he was in the seasons 2006/ 07 and 2008/ 09 respectively runner, taking each of the Nippon Paper Cranes defeated with his team in the finals. After three years in the highest Asian professional league, he was obliged by the German second division Movers ESV Kaufbeuren, in which he received a one-year contract for the 2nd Bundesliga. In the 2009/10 season he scored ten goals in 53 games and had 20 assists.

In the 2010/11 season, which ended prematurely due to the Tōhoku earthquake, he won after his return to Japan as team captain with the Tohoku Free Blades for the first time the champion of the Asia League Ice Hockey. In the regular season he was top scorer and the top scorer of all AIHL player.

Internationally

For Japan, Tanaka took at junior level at the U18 World Junior Championships Division I in 2000 and 2001, the U20 Junior World Championship Division II in 2002 and the U20 Junior World Championship Division I 2003 part.

In the senior level, he stood in the squad of his country at the World Championships Division I 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. Moreover, he represented his native country in 2009 to qualify for the Olympic Hockey Tournament in Vancouver as well as in the Asian Winter Games 2007 and 2011. at the Asian Winter games he won a silver and a gold medal with Japan.

Awards and achievements

  • 2007 runner-up of the Asia League Ice Hockey with the Seibu Prince Rabbits
  • 2009 runner-up of the Asia League Ice Hockey with the Seibu Prince Rabbits
  • 2011 Asia League Ice Hockey Champion with the Tohoku Free Blades
  • 2011 top scorer of the AIHL
  • 2011 Top scorer in the AIHL

Internationally

  • 2007 Gold medal at the Asian Winter Games
  • 2011 Silver medal at the Asian Winter Games

Statistics

(End of season 2011 /12)

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