Tatsuya Shinhama (born 11 July 1996) is a Japanese
speed skater
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who is specialized in the sprint distances.
Career
In March 2018 Shinhama won the gold medal at the 500m and 1000m events of the
World University Speed Skating Championships in
Minsk
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, Belarus. At the
first competition weekend of the
2018–19 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
The 2018–19 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the ''ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2018–2019'', was a series of six international speed skating competitions that ran from November 2018 through March 2019.
Calendar
The detailed schedule for ...
in
Obihiro, Japan in March he finished third in the first 500m event. At the second competition weekend in
Tomakomai
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, Japan he won both 500m events, his first victories on the World Cup circuit.
Personal records
References
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1996 births
Living people
Japanese male speed skaters
World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters of Japan
21st-century Japanese people