Kōichi Satō (ski jumper)

Kōichi Satō
nation	Japan
birthday	September 21, 1931
size	172 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping
society	Clover butter / Yukijirushi
status	resigned
Medal table
National medals 1 × ? × ? ×
Japanese championships gold 1959 Ōwani singles

Kōichi Satō ( Japanese 佐藤 耕 一 , Satō Kōichi ; born September 21, 1931 ) is a former Japanese skier who was active in Nordic combined and ski jumping .

Career

Satō started at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo in ski jumping as well as in combination. In the special jumpers he landed on the normal hill after jumps on 68 and 66 meters in 36th place. In the Gundersen singles of the Nordic Combined he was 23rd after jumping, but fell back to 35th place in cross-country skiing over 18 km.

At the Japanese Championships in 1959 in Ōwani he won the individual title on the normal hill.

At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , Satō only started with the special jumpers. He achieved 22nd place on the normal hill.

Web links

• Kōichi Satō in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Kōichi Satō on The-Sports.org (mixed with other athletes of the same name)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japanese champions in ski jumping ( Japanese ) Japanese Ski Association. Archived from the original on February 5, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 2, 2014.