Kazuhiro Higashi

Kazuhiro Higashi
nation	Japan
birthday	2nd July 1968
size	165 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
National squad	since 1989
status	resigned
End of career	1999
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 16, 1989
Overall World Cup	34th ( 1990/91 )
Jump World Cup	59th (1995/96)

Kazuhiro Higashi ( Japanese 東 和 広 , Higashi Kazuhiro ; born July 2, 1968 in Niki , Yoichi County , Hokkaidō ) is a former Japanese ski jumper .

Career

Higashi made his debut in the ski jumping world cup on December 16, 1989 . When jumping from the normal hill in Sapporo , he landed on the 56th place. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1991 in Val di Fiemme , he jumped from the normal hill to 5th place. On March 17, 1991 he reached the Holmenkollbakken in Oslo with the 7th place, the best individual result in a World Cup competition in his career. He finished the 1990/91 season in 34th place in the overall World Cup standings. Higashi moved to the newly created Ski Jumping Continental Cup for the 1991/92 season , in which he remained until 1999. Every year, however, he was nominated for the World Cup jumping in Sapporo and was able to win World Cup points several times. Higashi was also part of the squad for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , but did not start there in any competition. In 1999 Higashi ended his active ski jumping career.

Kazuhiro Higashi is the oldest of the "three ski jumping Higashi brothers": his twin brother Akihiro and his younger brother Akira are or were also ski jumpers.

successes

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1990/91	34.	17th
1993/94	86.	04th
1994/95	63.	26th
1995/96	61.	32
1996/97	70.	18th
1998/99	80.	09

Web links

• Kazuhiro Higashi in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 冬季 オ リ ン ピ ッ ク 日本 代表 選手 - ス キ ー ジ ャ ン プ ( Memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )