Kazuyoshi Funaki

Kazuyoshi Funaki
Full name	Kazuyoshi Funaki ( Japanese 船 木 和 喜 , Funaki Kazuyoshi )
nation	Japan
birthday	April 27, 1975
place of birth	Yoichi ,  Japan
Career
society	FIT ski
Pers. Best	206.5 m ( Planica 1999)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 0 × Asian Games medals 2 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 0 × SFWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1998 Nagano team gold 1998 Nagano Large hill silver 1998 Nagano Normal hill  Winter Asian Games gold 2003 Aomori Normal hill silver 2003 Aomori team gold 2011 Almaty Large hill team silver 2011 Almaty Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1997 Trondheim team gold 1999 Ramsau Normal hill silver 1999 Ramsau team silver 2003 Val di Fiemme team  Ski flying world championships gold 1998 Oberstdorf singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 20, 1992
World Cup victories (individual)	15 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	02 ( details )
Overall World Cup	2. ( 1997/98 )
Ski flying world cup	2. (1997/98)
Jump World Cup	3. (1998/99)
Four Hills Tournament	1. ( 1997/98 )
Nordic Tournament	10 (2003)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 14th 9 11  Ski flying 1 3 0  Team jumping 2 2 3
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	2. ( 1995 , 1998 )
last change: January 7, 2016

Kazuyoshi Funaki ( Japanese 船 木 和 喜 , Funaki Kazuyoshi ; born April 27, 1975 in Yoichi , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese ski jumper . In the 1990s in particular, he was one of the most successful athletes in his discipline; more recently, his career has been mixed. Funaki became known for its extreme "template", i.e. for its daring-looking variant of the V-style , in which the body lies flat to the skis.

Career

Funaki started ski jumping at the age of eleven. His birthplace Yoichi is also the home of Yukio Kasaya , who became a Japanese national hero with his victory on the normal hill at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo . Kasaya is also Funaki's role model.

He had his first World Cup appearance on December 20, 1992 in Sapporo. He achieved his first World Cup victory on December 10, 1994 on the normal hill in Planica, Slovenia . A few weeks later, after the third competition of the Four Hills Tournament, he led the overall standings. In the second round of the fourth and final competition in Bischofshofen , he reached the best distance of the day with 131.5 meters, but fell on landing - the tour victory went to Austrian Andreas Goldberger , Funaki only finished second.

Funaki achieved a total of 15 World Cup victories in his career, most recently on February 5, 2005 in Sapporo. He achieved his best result in the overall World Cup in the 1997/98 season with second place. This season he also won the Four Hills Tournament with ease , which he was the first Japanese to succeed. In 1998 he also became world ski flying champion in Oberstdorf.

The high point of his career was the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . In front of a home crowd, Funaki won gold on the large hill and with the team, and silver on the normal hill behind Jani Soininen from Finland . In the individual competition on the large hill, he received a grade of 20 five times for his perfect jump in the second round  - a rating that only seven jumpers have received so far.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau in 1999 he was world champion on the normal hill. In the same year he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal . With the Japanese team he was also runner-up in 1997, 1999 and 2003.

In the following years, Funaki was rather moderately successful despite some occasional successes. In the 2004/05 season he only reached the thirtieth place in the overall World Cup ranking.

After a break of almost four years in the World Cup, Funaki jumped again on January 31, 2009 in a World Cup competition in his home country and came in 19th. He still takes part in various competitions, but mainly in Japan. On January 16, 2011, he achieved another respectable success with the 16th place in the World Cup jumping in Sapporo.

At the Winter Asian Games 2011 in Almaty , whose jumping competitions were held on the newly built hills of the Gorney Gigant complex , Funaki won the silver medal on the large hill. He finished sixth on the normal hill. At the team competition on the large hill, Funaki won the gold medal with Yūta Watase , Yūhei Sasaki and Kazuya Yoshioka .

Funaki lived in Slovenia for a while and no longer trained there with the Japanese team. In contrast to all other Japanese ski jumpers, he was not a member of a works team, but was a kind of independent entrepreneur as a one-man team.

The Austrian songwriter duo Christoph and Lollo released the song Funaki on the album Schispringerlieder in 1999 , in which they “pay homage” to him.

Today Funaki lives single in Sapporo and still competes in the FIS Cup from time to time when it makes a stop in Japan.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
01.	December 10, 1994	Planica	Normal hill
02.	4th January 1995	innsbruck	Large hill
03.	December 14, 1996	Harrachov	Large hill
04th	4th January 1997	innsbruck	Large hill
05.	March 12, 1997	Kuopio	Normal hill
06th	March 16, 1997	Oslo	Large hill
07th	December 29, 1997	Oberstdorf	Large hill
08th.	January 1, 1998	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
09.	January 4, 1998	innsbruck	Large hill
10.	January 24, 1998	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
11.	March 21, 1998	Planica	Large hill
12.	January 10, 1999	Engelberg	Large hill
13.	January 24, 1999	Sapporo	Large hill
14th	March 6, 1999	Lahti	Normal hill
15th	February 5, 2005	Sapporo	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
01.	January 30, 1999	Willingen	Large hill
02.	January 19, 2001	Park City	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
01.	August 19, 1995	Kuopio	Normal hill
02.	August 12, 1998	Hakuba	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
01.	August 7, 1999	Hakuba	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
01.	December 18, 1994	Lahti	Large hill
02.	January 14, 1995	Sapporo	Large hill
03.	January 15, 1995	Sapporo	Normal hill
04th	September 21, 1997	Hakuba	Large hill
05.	October 23, 1999	Hakuba	Large hill
06th	October 24, 1999	Hakuba	Large hill
07th	January 15, 2000	Sapporo	Large hill
08th.	January 16, 2000	Sapporo	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1994/95	04th	0843
1995/96	33.	0151
1996/97	03.	1018
1997/98	02.	1234
1998/99	04th	1589
1999/00	14th	0475
2000/01	30th	0144
2001/02	11.	0460
2002/03	30th	0185
2003/04	40.	0071
2004/05	30th	0133
2008/09	63.	0012
2010/11	58.	0015th

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1995	02.	956
1996	08th.	117
1997	05.	192
1998	02.	350
1999	07th	208
2000	06th	253
2001	15th	126
2002	14th	095
2003	54.	003
2004	22nd	086
2009	23.	079
2010	61.	014th

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
1994/95	7th	570
1995/96	67.	141
1996/97	90.	110
1997/98	80.	145
1999/00	14th	440
2000/01	187.	20th
2002/03	88	65
2008/09	55.	106
2009/10	80.	47
2010/11	43.	166
2011/12	58.	82

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
innsbruck	Austria	117.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	January 3, 1995	4th January 1995
innsbruck	Austria	117.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	4th January 1995	4th January 1997
Kuusamo	Finland	142.5 m ( HS : 142 m)	February 7, 1996	November 29, 2002
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	121.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	December 31, 1997	January 1, 1998

Web links

Commons : Kazuyoshi Funaki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Result of the large hill (PDF; 59 kB)
2. ↑ Result normal hill (PDF; 62 kB)
3. ↑ Result of team competition (PDF; 64 kB)
4. ↑ Kazuyoshi Funaki in the FIS database. Retrieved March 13, 2015.