is a Japanese music box and electrical component manufacturing company and a member of the
Nidec Group. The company was founded as Sankyo Seiki Manufacturing in 1946; Nidec Corporation became the majority shareholder of the company in 2003. In fiscal 2013, it had a revenue of more than 9.9 billion yen (US$800 million) from the manufacture of various electronic components.
Nidec Sankyo has had a
speed skating
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marath ...
club since 1957 and two of its members,
Keiichiro Nagashima
is a Japanese long track speed skater specialising in the sprint distances 500 and 1000 metres. Nagashima has won two World Cup races and has three Japanese domestic titles. He is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.
Career
Nagash ...
and
Joji Kato
(born 6 February 1985) is a Japanese speedskater whose specialty is in the sprinting distance event of 500 metres. At the age of 17 he became the first junior speedskater to skate the 500 metres in less than 35 seconds.
Until 9 March 2007 he w ...
, won medals at the
2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
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, nations = 82
, athletes = 2,626
, events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
, opening = February 12, 2010
, closing = February 28, 2010
, opened_by = Governor General Michaƫlle Jean
, cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...
.
Athlete Profiles - Nidec Sankyo Speed Skating Team
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References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.nidec-sankyo.co.jp/english/index.html
Electronics companies of Japan