Daiki Itō at the World Cup in Oslo in March 2010
Daiki Itō ( Japanese 伊 東 大 貴 , Itō Daiki ; born December 27, 1985 in Shimokawa ) is a Japanese ski jumper . With the Japanese team, he won the first mixed team competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 .
Career
On January 26, 2002 Itō won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in Schonach behind the Finn Janne Happonen . Since February 2002 he has been jumping in the World Cup . At the Junior World Championships in 2003 in Sollefteå , Sweden , he could not repeat the success of Schonach and was only 23rd in the individual, while he was ninth with the team. In the 2003/04 season he got his first World Cup points and was 37th in the overall World Cup ranking, in 2004/05 he was the best Japanese in 13th and in 2005/06 he was 19th. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2004 in Planica , Slovenia , he finished fifth with the Japanese team, together with Noriaki Kasai , Akira Higashi and Hideharu Miyahira , and 20th in the individual.
On January 6, 2005, he jumped on the final competition of the Four Hills Tournament on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze in Bischofshofen as third for the first time on the podium in a World Cup competition. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 he was 31st (large hill) and 36th (normal hill) in the individual competitions, while he was ninth in the team competition with the Japanese team. The following year later, on January 22nd, 2006, he came second for the first time at the home world cup on the Ōkurayama hill in Sapporo . At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he finished 18th in the individual competitions on the normal hill and 42nd on the large hill. With the Japanese team, he finished sixth.
His first men's medals were two third places at world championships: At the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo and at the 2009 World Championships in Liberec , he and the team, together with Shōhei Tochimoto , Takanobu Okabe and Noriaki Kasai , won bronze medals on the large hill. In the individual competitions he reached 20 (normal hill) and 29 (large hill) in Sapporo and 20th (large hill) and 22nd (normal hill) in Liberec. In between he had finished seventh with the team and 27th in the individual at the Ski Flying World Championships 2008 in Oberstdorf .
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver he reached 15th place in jumping on the normal hill, 20th place on the large hill and fifth place in the team competition. At the subsequent ski flying world championship in 2010 in Planica , Slovenia , he was 20th in the individual jump.
Daiki Itō experienced another high point in the summer of 2010. In the summer series of ski jumping, Itō took off at the top early , including three victories in Courchevel , Einsiedeln and Hakuba . Although he did without the last two competitions for reasons of winter preparation and thus risked his overall victory, he was able to win the Summer Grand Prix for the first time . At the 2011 World Championships in Oslo, Norway, he was 13th on the normal and 18th on the large hill. In the team competitions it was not enough for the Japanese to precious metal and Itō and his teammates took fifth (normal hill) and six (large hill).
On January 15, 2012 Itō was able to achieve his first podium finish in ski flying with second place behind Anders Bardal when jumping on the Kulm . Almost two weeks later he won his first World Cup victory in Sapporo, with a lead of just 0.1 points, ahead of the Norwegian Anders Bardal. The very next day he was able to celebrate his second victory. Overall, he achieved four victories this season and with fourth place in the overall World Cup, his best result by far. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2012 in Vikersund, Norway, he achieved fifth place both with the Japanese team and in the individual.
At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he won the gold medal in the first-ever mixed team competition together with Yūki Itō , Sara Takanashi and Taku Takeuchi . With the Japanese men's team, he was fifth on the large hill, while he finished tenth (large hill) and 15 (normal hill) in the individual competitions. The following year he won the bronze medal in the team competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, together with Reruhi Shimizu , Taku Takeuchi and Noriaki Kasai . In the individual competition on the large hill he finished ninth, on the normal hill he was not used. At the 2015 World Championships in Falun, Sweden, he and the Japanese team just barely missed another World Championship medal in fourth place on the large hill behind Poland. In the individual, he reached twelfth place on the normal and 28th place on the large hill.
At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 2017 , he won the bronze medal in the mixed team competition, while he finished seventh on the large hill with the men's team. In the individual competitions it was enough to rank ten (normal hill) and 15 (large hill). On March 19, 2017, he set a new Japanese record in ski flying at Vikersundbakken with a distance of 243 meters . In February, he took part in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang for the fourth time and started in two of three competitions. In the individual competition on the normal hill , he took 20th place and with the Japanese team he finished sixth on the large hill . At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , he won the bronze medal in team jumping with his teammates Yukiya Satō , Junshirō Kobayashi and Ryōyū Kobayashi . In the individual competitions, he finished 20th on the large and 34th on the normal hill.
successes
World Cup victories in individual
No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
1. |
January 28, 2012 |
Japan Sapporo
|
Large hill
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2. |
January 29, 2012 |
Japan Sapporo
|
Large hill
|
3. |
March 4, 2012 |
Finland Lahti
|
Large hill
|
4th |
March 8, 2012 |
Norway Trondheim
|
Large hill
|
World Cup victories in the team
No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
1. |
December 6, 2013 |
Norway Lillehammer
|
Normal hill mixed team
|
Individual Grand Prix victories
No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
1. |
August 13, 2010 |
France Courchevel
|
Large hill
|
2. |
August 15, 2010 |
Switzerland Einsiedeln
|
Large hill
|
3. |
August 28, 2010 |
Japan Hakuba
|
Large hill
|
Continental Cup wins in singles
No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
1. |
January 4, 2004 |
Slovenia Planica
|
Normal hill
|
statistics
World Cup placements
Grand Prix placements
Hill records
place |
country |
Expanse |
set up on |
Record up
|
Bischofshofen |
Austria Austria
|
143.0 m ( HS : 140 m) |
January 6, 2005 |
5th January 2017
|
Trondheim |
Norway Norway
|
141.0 m ( HS : 140 m) |
March 8, 2012 |
March 6, 2014
|
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's HS106 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's Team HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's HS106 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's Team HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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↑ Daiki Ito renounces Liberec and Klingenthal . www.skijumping.de. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
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↑ me of www.berkutschi.com , accessed on 15 January 2012 found.
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↑ me of www.berkutschi.com , accessed on 28 January 2012 found.
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↑ me of www.berkutschi.com , accessed on 29 January 2012 found.
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^ "Japan's first mixed team world champion" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 25, 2013.
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↑ “Germany dethrones Austria” at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 18, 2014.
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's Team HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's HS109 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's Team HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
2013: Y. Itō , D. Itō , Takanashi , Takeuchi | 2015: Vogt , Friday , Althaus , Freund | 2017: Vogt , Eisenbichler , Würth , Wellinger | 2019: Althaus , Eisenbichler , Seyfarth , Geiger