Yusuke Minato

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

Yusuke Minato (湊 祐介 Minato Yūsuke?) (born May 13, 1985) is a Japanese Nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2002. 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 sixth in the 10 km individual normal hill event at those same championships.

Minato's best World Cup finish was 12th twice (2008, 2009). His lone victory was in the 7.5 km sprint event at Pragelato in 2007.

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)