Maki Tabata

Medal record
Maki Tabata
Women's speed skating
Competitor for  Japan
Olympic Games
Silver	2010 Vancouver	Team pursuit
Asian Games
Gold	2003 Aomori	1500 m
Gold	2003 Aomori	3000 m
Bronze	2007 Changchun	3000 m

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

Maki Tabata won bronze at the World Allround Championships in 2000 and one month later, she won another bronze, this time on the 3,000 m at the World Single Distance Championships. The next year (2001), she won silver on the 1,500 m and bronze on the 5,000 m at the World Single Distance Championships. In 2003, she won another World Single Distance silver on the 1,500 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.

World records

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

Distance	Result	Date	Location
Mini combination	162.731	16 August 1998	Calgary

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.

Distance	Result	Date	Location	WR
500 m	39.18	15 March 2001	Calgary	37.29
1,000 m	1:16.00	8 December 2001	Calgary	1:14.06
1,500 m	1:54.55	12 December 2009	Salt Lake City	1:53.22
3,000 m	4:01.01	27 January 2002	Calgary	3:59.26
5,000 m	7:00.09	19 March 2006	Calgary	6:55.34

References

• Maki Tabata at SkateResults.com

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Name	Tabata, Maki
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Date of birth	9 November 1974
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