Shintaro Sato

Shintaro Sato

Personal information
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1980-08-20) 20 August 1980 (age 44) Tsurugashima, Japan
Education	Physical education
Alma mater	University of Tsukuba Graduate school
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Country	Japan
Sport	Bobsleigh Athletics
Now coaching	Kirara Shiraishi Shuhei Tada
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 10.36 (2004) 200 m: 20.83 (2000)

Shintaro Sato (佐藤 真太郎, Satō Shintarō) (born (1980-08-20)August 20, 1980 in Tsurugashima) is a Japanese retired bobsledder and sprinter.^[1]

Bobsleigh career

Sato competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Japan. He teamed with driver Hiroshi Suzuki, Toshiki Kuroiwa and Hisashi Miyazaki in the four-man event, finishing 26th.^[2][3]

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.^[1]

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Partners	Time
Representing  Japan
2013-14	World Cup	Lake Placid, United States	19th	Two-man	Hiroshi Suzuki	1:52.67 (56.32 / 56.35)
			19th	Four-man	Hiroshi Suzuki Hisashi Miyazaki Toshiki Kuroiwa	1:51.86 (55.87 / 55.99)
2014	Olympic Games	Sochi, Russia	24th	Four-man	Hiroshi Suzuki Hisashi Miyazaki Toshiki Kuroiwa	2:49.46 (56.41 / 56.42 / 56.63)

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.^[4][5]

Personal bests

• 100 metres – 10.36 (Kumagaya 2004)
• 200 metres – 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.^[6] Before that, he was the coach of track and field club at Sayamagaoka High School for three years.^[4]

He is currently coach of Japanese sprinters Kirara Shiraishi and Shuhei Tada.^[7]

References

1. FIBT Profile Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Sports Reference Profile". Archived from the original on 22 February 2020.
3. "Sochi2014.com profile". 20 March 2014. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014.
4. "Tsukuba Way Interview". 各界で活躍する筑波大Ob＆Ogの活躍を集めた インタビューコラムサイト「つくばウェイ」 (in Japanese). 20 June 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
5. "【連載】『伝説のアイスレーサー』特別企画 第２回 佐藤真太郎氏". Waseda Sports (in Japanese). 2 December 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
6. "Staff". Daito Bunka University Track and Field Club (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 November 2020.
7. "多田修平×白石黄良々(競技編)～「いだてん」たちの"つぶやき" 新春ラジオスペシャル～". NHK (in Japanese). 2 January 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.

External links

• Shintaro Sato at World Athletics
• Shintaro Sato at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Shintaro Sato at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Shintaro Sato at JOC (in Japanese)
• Shintaro Sato at Daito Bunka University (in Japanese)
• Shintaro Sato on Twitter