Reiichi Mikata

(born January 14, 1967) is a Japanese Nordic combined skier who competed during the early 1990s. He won the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.

Early life Mikata was born in Ashiro, Iwate. He started skiing at the age of three, and joined a ski sports youth club as a fourth year elementary school student. As a fifth grade student he met ski jumping gold medalist Yukio Kasaya, who encouraged him to take the sport seriously.

For his three years at junior high school, Mikata played for his school's baseball club in the summer, and represented his school's ski club in the winter. In his second year of junior high school, he won second place in the Iwate Prefectural Nordic Jumping Championships.

Post sports career After retiring from winter sports, Mikita worked as the chief of the Sports Promotion Division of Iwate Prefecture's Culture and Sports Department.