Masako Ishida

Masako Ishida (Japanese石田 正 子, Masako Ishida; born November 5, 1980 in Bihoro, Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese cross-country skier.

Masako Ishida lives in Hokkaido and starts for the JR Hokkaido Ski Team. Their first international FIS race she contested in December 1997 Otoineppu. Further deployments to 2000 were sporadic nature and only in lower class and FIS Continental Cup race. At the Junior World Championship 2000 in Štrbské Pleso, the best result was a 13th place over 15 kilometers. After the Junior World Championships she ran in Hakuba and Sapporo for the first time on podium ranks in the Continental Cup. In January 2001, she won the first of these races in Hakuba. In 2001, Ishida also participated in the Winter Universiade in Zakopane and missed there as fourth placed just a medal. In March, the Japanese denied their first cross-country skiing World Cup race in Oslo and was 54th in 2003 they again took part in the Winter Universiade and reached best result an eighth place over 5 kilometers. After the Universiade Ishida was first nominated for a Nordic World Ski Championships. In Val di Fiemme it was 36 over 15 and 35 over 10 kilometers. With the season she ran to eleventh place. In November 2003 she won in Kuusamo in a race over 10 kilometers as 29platzierte first World Cup points. In December, she was with the Fifth Season. In Oberstdorf, Ishida ran their first World Cup in 2005 and became 42 in pursuit, 28 over 30 km and 12 in the relay race. A new good placement abolished the Japanese in 2006 as a 14 over 10 km in Davos. Then she took the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and has been part of 35 in pursuit, 31 and 12 in the 10-kilometer relay competition. Next major event was the 2007 Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo, where Ishida was in the 26th and 13th Pursuit over 30 kilometers. Your best career services rendered the Japanese in the 2008 /09 season. First, they missed as Elftplatzierte in a World Cup race in Valdidentro a first top- ten finish just barely. After that they took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec. She was eighth in the 10 -kilometer race, 14 of persecution and seventh in the relay. In the team sprint they missed with Madoka Natsumi as fourth placed just under her first medal. At the World Cup in Trondheim she managed third place with about 50 kilometers ( mass start ) their first podium finish. In the overall ranking of cross-country skiing World Cup she took the 33rd place in this season.

Ishida was far more than 50 World Cup, in about half of them could win the World Cup points. Five races of the Continental Cups they won, as per two races of the Far East Cup and FIS races.