Shinsuke Tayama

Shinsuke Tayama (Japanese田 山 真 辅, Shinsuke Tayama; born October 18, 1982 in Fujinomiya ) is a Japanese Skeleton pilot.

Shinsuke Tayama began in 2001 with the sport of skeleton, since 2006 it belongs to the national team of his native country at. His first international race drove the Japanese in November 2004 as part of the Skeleton America's Cup in Calgary and was 22 and 26 In the Winter Universiade in 2005 in Igls he missed in fourth place just a medal and was able to athletes like Chris Type, Alexander Mutowin and Frank Rommel leave behind. At the Junior World Championships only a little later he came on 14th place a year later Tayama was at the Junior World Championships in Igls 15 In January 2007, the Japanese made ​​his debut as a 17 in Nagano in skeleton World Cup. Furthermore, race ensued, but it should remain his best to date placement in this competition series. International sustained attention to themselves made ​​Tayama first time when he was at the race of the Skeleton - European Cup 2007/ 08 in Cesana Torinese behind Sergei Smirnov second. Since 2008, the Japanese launched in Skeleton Intercontinental, where sixth place in Calgary in January 2008 was best result so far. In the Japanese Championships, he was behind Kazuhiro Koshi 2007 runner-up.

In 2010, he was next to Kazuhiro Koshi and Nozomi Komuro for the skeleton and bobsleigh selection of Japan to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver with Masaru Inada as a coach.