Taku Takeuchi

Taku Takeuchi (Japanese竹 内 択, Taku Takeuchi, born May 20, 1987 in Iiyama in Nagano Prefecture ) is a Japanese ski jumper. With the Japanese team, he won the mixed team competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013.

Career

Takeuchi launched until 2006 for the Finnish club Puijon Hiihtoseura, 2007, he joined the Japanese factory team Kitano Kensetsu in Nagano. His first try in Ski Jumping Continental Cup, he had in Sapporo on January 15, 2005. This season he reached with 2 points the 164th rank in the following season with 115 points 49th place. On 24 November 2006 took place in Kuusamo, the first use in the Ski Jumping World Cup. In Continental, he reached this season with 162 points 39th place. In Ski Jumping World Cup 2006/2007 he won the first World Cup points, finishing with 16 points at the end of the 65th rank. In the next season he was able to prove end up with 180 points 28th place.

At the Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver Takeuchi difference in jumping on the normal hill from 34th after the first passage. On January 4, 2012, he was able to achieve in the Four Hills Tournament for third place, achieving a podium finish for the first time in his career in an individual competition of the World Cup jumping in Innsbruck. In Endklassementerreichte the Four Hills Tournament, he finished ninth.

On September 23, 2012, he was able to win first jumping in this competition at the Summer Grand Prix in Kazakhstan Almaty. He benefited from doing that jumping was canceled because of strong winds after the first competition round. His previous best World Cup result he reached on February 13, 2013, when he finished second in the 2013 Klingenthal within the FIS Team Tour.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, he won the Japanese team the gold medal in the inaugural mixed- team competition. A year later he won the Japanese team at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 the bronze medal in the team competition.

Achievements

World Cup victories in team

World Cup rankings

Summer Grand Prix wins

Summer Grand Prix rankings

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