Akitsugu Konno

Akitsugu Konno
nation	Japan
birthday	September 1, 1944
place of birth	Sapporo
size	162 cm
date of death	5th September 2019
Career
National squad	since 1968
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1972 Sapporo Normal hill  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1972 Sapporo Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	15. ( 1973/74 )

Akitsugu Konno ( Japanese 金 野 昭 次 , Konno Akitsugu ; born September 1, 1944 in Sapporo , Hokkaidō ; † September 5, 2019 ) was a Japanese ski jumper who was active in the early 1970s.

Konno's greatest success was winning the silver medal behind his compatriot Yukio Kasaya at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , which was also held as the ski jumping world championship. A few weeks later he reached the podium again in third place at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in Oslo . Konno took part in the Four Hills Tournament in 1973/74 . His best individual result was thirteenth place on the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck .

statistics

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1973/74	15th	854.7

Web links

• Akitsugu Konno in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Akitsugu Konno in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl
• Akitsugu Konno in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Akitsugu Konno on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic Ski Jumping Medalist Akitsugu Konno Dies at 75. In: nippon.com. September 9, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 .