Yuzuru Hanyuda

Yuzuru Hanyūda (Japanese羽 入 田 譲, Hanyūda Yuzuru; born 23 October 1976) is a Japanese skeleton bob.

Yuzuru Hanyūda began in 1997 with the sport of skeleton and belongs since 2002 to the Japanese national team. In December 2002, the Japanese were in Calgary his debut in Skeleton America's Cup and was twelfth. It took until November 2004 that he could at the same place in fourth place for the first time ranked among the top ten. In January 2005 he was able to start the first time in the Skeleton World Cup due to this and other good results. In Turin he was 18 In the very next race in St. Moritz, he came in eighth place among the top ten, reaching its best to date placement in this competition. Culmination of a good season was participating in the Skeleton World Cup in 2005 in Calgary, where Hanyūda finished in 17th place. After the Japanese in the 2005/06 season reached only moderate results, he was demoted again. In the two following years, the Japanese usually achieved good to mediocre results in the America's Cup and the newly created Skeleton Intercontinental. In the 2007 /08 season he reached second place behind compatriot Yūki Sasahara in Park City be until then best result in the America's Cup and finished in the standings behind Sasahara and Chris Burgess third parties. 2008/ 09 he repeated this position in the overall standings and was named after a third place in Calgary at the same place one day it behind Kevin Ellis second. 2010/11 he won his first race in Calgary. In the following two races in Lake Placid Hanyūda was behind Greg Maidment next Second and will again win a day later before this one America's Cup race.