Yuma Murakami (born 12 December 1992) is a Japanese
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. ...
who is specialized in the sprint distances.
Career
At the fifth competition weekend of the
2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
The 2016–17 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the ''ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2016–2017'', was a series of international speed skating competitions that ran the entire season. The season started on 11 November 2016 in Harbin, China, a ...
, held in Berlin, Germany Murakami finished in second place in the first 500m event following
Nico Ihle
Nico Ihle (born 2 December 1985 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) (since 1990 renamed Chemnitz) is a German speed skater. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in the 500 meters and 1000 meters events and also at the 2018 Winter Olympics ...
. At the
second 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
Tomakomai
is a city and port in Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the largest city in the Iburi Subprefecture, and the fourth largest city in Hokkaido. As of 29 February 2012, it had an estimated population of 174,216, with 83,836 households, ...
, Japan he finished second in the first 500m event behind
Tatsuya Shinhama and third in the second 500m.
Personal records
References
External links
SpeedSkatingStats profileSpeedSkatingNews profile*
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1992 births
Living people
Japanese male speed skaters
People from Obihiro
Speed skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters for Japan
21st-century Japanese people