Hitoshi Sakurai

Hitoshi Sakurai
nation	Japan
birthday	17th November 1967
Career
society	Takugin
National squad	since 1990
status	resigned
End of career	1999
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 15, 1990
Overall World Cup	59th ( 1992/93 )
Jump World Cup	68th (1998/99)

Hitoshi Sakurai ( Japanese 桜 井 仁 , Sakurai Hitoshi ; born November 17, 1967 in Yoichi , Hokkaidō ) is a former Japanese ski jumper .

On December 15, 1990 Sakurai made his debut in the ski jumping World Cup in Sapporo and finished jumping on the normal hill in 52nd place. On December 19, 1992 he achieved his first World Cup points win on the same hill with 15th place. With this one point he won at the end of the 1992/93 season, 59th place in the overall World Cup ranking. In the other World Cup competitions he remained pointless in the season.

From December 1993 Sakurai started in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup and was nominated annually until 1999 for the World Cup jumping in Sapporo. Sakurai was part of the squad for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , but did not take part in any competition there.

He could no longer achieve great successes in the years 1994 to 1999 and then ended his active ski jumping career after the 1998/99 season.

Web links

• Hitoshi Sakurai in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 冬季 オ リ ン ピ ッ ク 日本 代表 選手 - ス キ ー ジ ャ ン プ . winter-olympic-memories.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 28, 2014.