Hideharu Miyahira

Hideharu Miyahira
Hideharu Miyahira in Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1999
nation	Japan
birthday	December 21, 1973
place of birth	Otaru ,  Japan
Career
society	Mizuno
Pers. Best	213.5 ( Planica 2003)
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1999 Ramsau Normal hill silver 1999 Ramsau team bronze 1999 Ramsau Large hill silver 2003 Val di Fiemme team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 22, 1994
World Cup victories (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	05. ( 1998/99 )
Ski flying world cup	03. (1998/99)
Jump World Cup	08. (1998/99)
Four Hills Tournament	03. ( 1998/99 )
Nordic Tournament	11th ( 2002/03 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 3 4th  Ski flying 1 1 1  Team jumping 0 2 2
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	03rd ( 2001 )

Hideharu Miyahira ( Japanese 宮 平 秀 治 , Miyahira Hideharu ; born December 21, 1973 in Otaru , Hokkaidō , Japan ) is a former Japanese ski jumper and current ski jumping trainer.

Career

Ski jumper

Miyahira achieved the greatest sporting success of his career in 1999. At the Four Hills Tournament he was able to achieve his first podium places in the World Cup as third in the jumping in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen . He finished the tour in third overall. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau in 1999 , he won the silver medal in jumping from the normal hill behind his compatriot Kazuyoshi Funaki . In the team competition on the large hill, he was also able to fight for the silver medal with the Japanese team behind Germany. From the large hill he won the bronze medal behind Martin Schmitt and Sven Hannawald . At the season finale in Planica , Slovenia , he celebrated his first and only World Cup victory. This success secured him third place in the overall ranking of the Ski Flying World Cup. He finished the season in fifth place in the overall World Cup.

In the summer of 2000, Miyahira won the Ski Jumping Grand Prix competitions in Courchevel and Sapporo and finished the Summer Grand Prix in third place overall. In the World Cup seasons 2000 and 2001 he was able to book a few top ten placements. But it wasn't until 2003 that he was able to attract attention again with three podium finishes, including second place in Willingen on February 9th . On February 8th, he was also sixth in Willingen, and for his second jump he received a grade of 20 five times  - a rating that only six jumpers have received so far. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 in Val di Fiemme , he won the silver medal on the large hill with the Japanese team. When jumping from the normal hill, he just missed a medal and finished fourth, 0.5 points behind his compatriot Noriaki Kasai . From the large hill he reached fifth place.

Miyahira was one of the lightweight ski jumpers. When the BMI rule in ski jumping was introduced in the spring of 2004, which states that jumpers including their sports equipment with a BMI of less than 20 must start with shorter skis, Miyahira lost touch with the world's best. Although he was able to take third place at the Ski Jumping Grand Prix 2004 in Innsbruck in the summer of 2004 and second place with the Japanese team in Hinterzarten , in the following 2005 World Cup season he often only qualified with difficulty for the second round of the best 30 jumpers. In the 2006 season he only competed in one World Cup competition. In Sapporo, he finished 16th. On March 5, 2006, he played his last international competition with the FIS Cup in Sapporo.

Miyahira has been part of the Japanese national team's coaching team since the 2010/11 season.

Trainer

In 2018, he succeeded Tomoharu Yokokawa as the new head coach of the Japan national team, having previously worked as his assistant.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 20, 1999	Planica	Ski jump

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1996/97	40.	094
1997/98	36.	135
1998/99	05.	934
1999/00	10.	567
2000/01	16.	302
2001/02	18th	279
2002/03	10.	639
2003/04	31.	167
2004/05	35.	097
2005/06	60.	015th

Web links

• Hideharu Miyahira in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Hideharu Miyahira in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Ski Championships 2003 - Men's Team K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 6, 2014
2. ↑ Harada, Saito, Miyahira and Suda new trainers in Japan . www.sportsplanet.at. May 11, 2010. Retrieved December 3, 2010.
3. ↑ Change of coach no. 5 perfect , on berkutschi.com, April 8, 2018. Accessed November 19, 2018.