Takafumi Nishitani
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| Born | January 17, 1979 Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Short track speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Takafumi Nishitani (西谷 岳文, Nishitani Takafumi) (born January 17, 1979, in Tadaoka, Osaka) is a Japanese short track speed skater. He won a gold medal on the 500 m at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.[1]
Now, Nishitani practices Keirin.
References
[edit]- ^ "1998 Winter Olympics – Nagano, Japan – Speed Skating" Archived 2007-08-30 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on April 10, 2008)
External links
[edit]- Takafumi Nishitani at ShortTrackOnLine.info
- Takafumi Nishitani at Olympics.com
- Takafumi Nishitani at Olympedia
- RACERPROFILE(日本語) - Keirin(競輪) (in Japanese)
- Takafumi Nishitani at the International Skating Union
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- 1979 births
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- Japanese male short track speed skaters
- Olympic short track speed skaters for Japan
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- Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
- Short track speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from Osaka Prefecture
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in short track speed skating
- Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Short track speed skaters at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
- Winter World University Games medalists in short track speed skating
- World Short Track Speed Skating Championships medalists
- People from Tadaoka, Osaka
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Japan
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Japan
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