Hiroatsu Takahashi

Hiroatsu Takahashi (Japanese高桥 弘 笃, Takahashi Hiroatsu; born April 13, 1984 in Tomiya, Kurokawa -gun, Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese Skeleton pilot.

Hiroatsu Takahashi studied as its subsequent team-mate Kazuhiro Koshi, sports science at the University of Sendai and lives in Nagano Prefecture. He began 2002 with the sport of skeleton, a part of since 2006 in the Japanese national team, and was founded in 2007 Team White Thunder Skeleton Club of the IT company Systex. The Japanese gave in 2004 his international debut in the Skeleton America's Cup and was at your first race in Calgary 29 more missions followed only sporadically in this series. He participated in the Winter Universiade in 2005 partly in Innsbruck, where he was 18th in the same month he also started the first time at a World Youth Championship, where he came in at number 22 in Winterberg. A year later he was in Igls 16 Since 2008, Takahashi came regularly to international missions. In Park City, he reached in January of the year with a fifth place in the America's Cup for the first time a top ten result. In the overall standings of the season he came up with John Fairbairn on a shared sixth place. The first half of the season 2008/ 09 started the Japanese in the America's Cup and came in five out of six races in the top ten. In the overall classification, he finished eighth. Later in the season, Takahashi was launched in Skeleton European Cup. Already in his first race in St. Moritz, he reached second place behind John Daly his first international podium. Also in the season 2009/10 he went to in the European Cup, and came in all eight races to use. His best result was a fourth place in St. Moritz, only once he missed as 12th in Altenberg the top ten rankings. In the overall standings Takahashi finished sixth.

For the season 2010/11, Takahashi could qualify for the Skeleton World Cup Igls and came in the season opener on his first deployment, in which he was 21. Previously, he had already won the first time the Japanese title.