is a Japanese politician and former

speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. ...

. He won an Olympic bronze medal in

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, and also competed in the

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

and

2002 Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soó ...

. He ended his speed skating career in 2002. Horii represents

Noboribetsu is a city in Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. Part of Shikotsu-Toya National Park, it is southwest of Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo ...

in the Hokkaido prefectural assembly for the

Liberal Democratic Party of Japan The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a conservativeThe Liberal Democratic Party is widely described as conservative: * * * * * political party in Japan. The LDP has been in power almost continuously since its foundation in 1955—a per ...

(LDP) since 2007. In the 2012 general election of the

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, he stands as LDP candidate in Hokkaido 9th district seeking to succeed retiring Democrat

Yukio Hatoyama is a former Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 16 September 2009 to 8 June 2010. He was the first Prime Minister from the modern Democratic Party of Japan. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1986, Hatoy ...

. He was nominated in July 2012 when Hatoyama was still expected to run for re-election.The Japan Times, 5 July 2012
Hatoyama could face tough re-election bid against Horii
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World records

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

References

Manabu Horii
at SpeedSkatingStats.com
Official site

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Horii, Manabu 1972 births Living people Japanese male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters of Japan Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in speed skating Speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics World record setters in speed skating Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Japanese sportsperson-politicians Sportspeople from Hokkaido Politicians from Hokkaido Members of the Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly People from Muroran, Hokkaido World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists