Taihei Kato

Medal record
Men's nordic combined
World Championships
Gold 2009 Liberec 4 x 5 km team

Taihei Kato (加藤大平 Katō Taihei?) (born July 30, 1984) is a Japanese Nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2003. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec and earned his best individual finish of 27th twice (10 km mass start: 2009, 15 km individual: 2007).

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Kato finished sixth in the 4 x 5 km team, 24th in the individual normal hill, and 30th in the individual large hill events.

His best World Cup finish was eighth in a 10 km individual normal hill event in France in February 2009. His best overall finish was second in the 7.5 km sprint at a World Cup B event in Finland in 2006.

References

3 x 10 km
4 x 5 km
1995: Japan (Masashi Abe, Tsugiharu Ogiwara, Kenji Ogiwara & Takanori Kono) * 1997: Norway (Halldor Skard, Bjarte Engen Vik, Knut Tore Apeland & Fred Børre Lundberg) * 1999: Finland (Hannu Manninen, Tapio Nurmela, Jari Mantila & Samppa Lajunen) * 2001: Norway (Kenneth Braaten, Sverre Rotevatn, Bjarte Engen Vik & Kristian Hammer) * 2003: Austria (Michael Gruber, Wilhelm Denifl, Christoph Bieler & Felix Gottwald) * 2005: Norway (Petter Tande, Håvard Klemetsen, Magnus Moan & Kristian Hammer) * 2007: Finland (Anssi Koivuranta, Janne Ryynänen, Jaakko Tallus & Hannu Manninen) * 2009: Japan (Yusuke Minato, Taihei Kato, Akito Watabe & Norihito Kobayashi) * 2011 (normal hill): Austria (David Kreiner, Bernhard Gruber, Felix Gottwald & Mario Stecher) * 2011 (large hill): Austria (David Kreiner, Bernhard Gruber, Felix Gottwald & Mario Stecher)