Maki Tabata

Maki Tabata
Personal information
Born (1974-11-09) 9 November 1974
Team information
Discipline Speed skating
Track cycling
Infobox last updated on
1 February 2016

Maki Tabata (Japanese: 田畑真紀, born 9 November 1974 in Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan) is a speed skater and cycle racer.

Maki Tabata won bronze at the World Allround Championships in 2000 and one month later, she won another bronze, this time on the 3000 m at the World Single Distance Championships. The next year (2001), she won silver on the 1500 m and bronze on the 5000 m at the World Single Distance Championships. In 2003, she won another World Single Distance silver on the 1500 m.

In addition, Tabata has won numerous titles and medals at the Asian Championships that are used to qualify for the World Allround Championships, at the Asian Single Distance Championships, and at Japanese Championships (both in Allround and Single Distance). She also has a few World Cup victories, both in individual events and in the team pursuit.

As a track cyclist she competed in four events at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and won medals in four disciplines at the 2012 Asian Cycling Championships, including a gold medal in the individual pursuit.[1]

World records

Over the course of her career, Tabata skated one world record:

DistanceResultDateLocation
Mini combination162.73116 August 1998Calgary

Personal records

To put these personal records in perspective, the last column (WR) lists the official world records on the dates that Tabata skated her personal records.

DistanceResultDateLocationWR
500 m39.1815 March 2001Olympic Oval, Calgary37.29
1000 m1:16.008 December 2001Olympic Oval, Calgary1:14.06
1500 m1:54.5512 December 2009Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City1:53.22
3000 m4:01.0127 January 2002Olympic Oval, Calgary3:59.26
5000 m7:00.0919 March 2006Olympic Oval, Calgary6:55.34

References

  1. "2012 Track Cycling World Championships: Entries list". tissottiming.com. Retrieved 1 February 2016.


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