Kazuhiro Koshi

Kazuhiro Koshi (Japanese越 和 宏, Kazuhiro Koshi, born December 23, 1964 in Otaki, Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture) is a Japanese skeleton bob.

Life

Kazuhiro Koshi studied as his future team-mate Hiroatsu Takahashi sports science at the University of Sendai.

He made ​​his international debut as a 29 at the World Championships in 1993 in La Plagne. In December of that year he started for the first time in Winterberg in the Skeleton World Cup, where he was 23. In January 1995, he drove in Altenberg tenth and eighth in Igls first time in the top ten. In December 1999, he won on his home track in Nagano his first World Cup race. Two years later he won there again. In the 1997/1998 and again 2000/2001 season was Koshi second in the overall World Cup, 2002/2003 of third parties.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he went to eighth place. Four years later he was in Turin eleventh. At Skeleton World Championships Koshi participated thirteen times. Best finish was a fourth place at the 2003 World Championships in Nagano. In the years 1998-2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008, he was seven times Japanese skeleton champion. By participating in 13 World Championships and almost 70 World Cup races of the Japanese is one of the most prolific active athletes of his sport.

In 2010, he was next to Shinsuke Tayama and Nozomi Komuro for the skeleton and bobsleigh selection of Japan to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver with Masaru Inada, who studied at the same university, as a coach.