(born in

Tsurugashima is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. On January 1, 2021, the city had an estimated population of 69,937 in 31,890 households and a population density of . The total area of the city is . Geography Tsurugashima is located in the geographic cen ...

) is a Japanese retired bobsledder and sprinter.FIBT Profile

Bobsleigh career

Sato competed at the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

for Japan. He teamed with driver Hiroshi Suzuki,

Toshiki Kuroiwa (born in Yokohama) is a Japanese bobsledder.FIBT Profile
Kuroiwa competed at ...

and

Hisashi Miyazaki is a Japanese retired bobsledder and track and field sprinter.FIBT Profile

in the four-man event, finishing 26th. Sato made his World Cup debut in December 2013. As of April 2014, his best finish is 19th, in a pair of events in 2012-13 at Lake Placid.

International competitions

Athletics career

He was part of the Waseda University team that won the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1999 and 2000 Japanese Championships. He was also the 2004 Japanese National Sports Festival champion in the 100 metres and the 1995 Japanese Junior High School Championships champion in the 400 metres.

Personal bests

100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been conteste ...

– 10.36 ( Kumagaya 2004) *

200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ...

– 20.83 (+1.2 m/s) ( Yokohama 2000)

Coaching career

He was the men's and women's sprint coach of track and field club at Daito Bunka University from 2009 to 2017 and later became men's and women's sprint director in 2018. Before that, he was the coach of track and field club at Sayamagaoka High School for three years. He is currently coach of Japanese sprinters

Kirara Shiraishi is a Japanese athlete. He competed in the men's 200 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised b ...

and

Shuhei Tada is a Japanese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Tada also represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, competing in the 100 metre and 4x100 metre relay events. Personal best ...

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Shintaro Sato
at JOC
Shintaro Sato
at Daito Bunka University * 1980 births Living people Olympic bobsledders for Japan Sportspeople from Saitama Prefecture Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics Japanese male bobsledders Japanese male sprinters Waseda University alumni Japanese athletics coaches 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub