Masahiko Harada (ski jumper)
Masahiko Harada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | May 9, 1968 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Kamikawa , Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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society | Yukijirushi Nyūgyō | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pers. Best | 197 m ( Planica 1999) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debut in the World Cup | January 24, 1987 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup victories (individual) | details ) | 9 (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup victories (team) | details ) | 3 (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall World Cup | 1997/98 ) | 4. (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski flying world cup | 8. (1998/99) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jump World Cup | 2. (1997/98) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Four Hills Tournament | 1992/93 ) | 4. (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ski jumping Grand Prix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debut in the Grand Prix | August 28, 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Prix victories (individual) | 10 ( details ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Prix victories (team) | details ) | 2 (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Grand Prix | 1997 , 1998 ) | 1. (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Masahiko Harada ( Japanese 原田 雅 彦 , Harada Masahiko ; born May 9, 1968 in Kamikawa , Hokkaidō ) is a former Japanese ski jumper and today's ski jumping coach. Because of his cheerful disposition in the 1990s, he was not only one of the most popular athletes in his discipline in Japan.
Career
Harada started ski jumping at the age of nine. He had his first World Cup appearance in 1987 in his native Sapporo . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1993 in Falun , Sweden , he was surprisingly world champion on the normal hill. Harada was a rather fickle jumper who often only managed one good jump in competition, and so for years he was more likely to be found in the midfield. His first World Cup victory was on December 8, 1995 in Villach . In total, he won four World Cup competitions in the 1995/96 season and was fifth overall. The following World Cup season was disappointing for him, his best result was a third place. At the World Championships in Trondheim , however, he was surprisingly world champion on the large hill.
Harada won the overall ranking of the 1997 and 1998 Summer Grand Prix . The following World Cup season 1997/98 was the most successful of his career for him: He won five individual competitions and was fourth overall. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , he won the bronze medal on the large hill. With his second jump he reached the daily best distance of 136 meters and landed beyond the range of the video distance measurement. Later re-measurements showed that Harada had reached 137.5 meters, and so he would have received the silver medal.
In the following years he rarely achieved podium finishes. Repeatedly he announced his withdrawal, but then returned. His last World Cup competition for the time being was on December 15, 2002 in Titisee-Neustadt, after which he jumped in the Continental Cup , the "second league" of ski jumpers. He can still be seen often at extraordinary individual competitions in Japan.
Harada was surprisingly at the start of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . He also survived the qualification for jumping on the normal hill, but was disqualified because the skis were too long.
Harada was a member of the Japanese team in almost all major competitions in the 1990s. In 1994 he became a tragic figure at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer : before his jump, the Japanese team led far ahead of the German. As the final jumper, Harada would have had to reach a distance of only 105 meters to help Japan win gold, but after a completely unsuccessful jump, in which he went from V-position to gliding flight shortly after jumping, he landed at only 97 .5 m, leaving Japan only with the silver medal. At the 1998 Winter Olympics, however, he sharpened this gap again: with Takanobu Okabe , Kazuyoshi Funaki and Hiroya Saitō , he won gold and thus became a Japanese folk hero. At world championships, Harada won silver with the Japanese team in Trondheim in 1997 and in Ramsau in 1999.
After the 2005/06 season , he finally ended his career. Before that, in February he was able to secure a starting place for the 2006 Winter Olympics , but was disqualified from the normal hill after the first round.
Coaching career
When coach Hiroya Saitō replaced head coach Keisuke Tomii in 2006 , Harada received the vacated post of coach of Yukijirushi Nyūgyō's team.
successes
World Cup victories in individual
No. | date | place | Type |
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1. | December 8, 1995 | Villach | Normal hill |
2. | February 18, 1996 | Iron Mountain | Large hill |
3. | March 1, 1996 | Lahti | Large hill |
4th | March 3, 1996 | Lahti | Large hill |
5. | December 8, 1997 | Villach | Normal hill |
6th | December 12, 1997 | Harrachov | Normal hill |
7th | December 21, 1997 | Engelberg | Large hill |
8th. | January 11, 1998 | Ramsau | Normal hill |
9. | March 13, 1998 | Trondheim | Large hill |
World Cup victories in the team
No. | date | place | Type |
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1. | March 27, 1993 | Planica | Large hill |
2. | March 2, 1996 | Lahti | Large hill |
3. | March 1, 1996 | Park City | Large hill |
Individual Grand Prix victories
No. | date | place | Type |
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1. | August 28, 1996 | Predazzo | Large hill |
2. | September 1, 1996 | Stams | Normal hill |
3. | August 14, 1997 | Courchevel | Large hill |
4th | August 24, 1997 | Hinterzarten | Normal hill |
5. | August 27, 1997 | Predazzo | Large hill |
6th | August 9, 1998 | Stams | Normal hill |
7th | August 11, 1998 | Predazzo | Large hill |
8th. | August 16, 1998 | Hinterzarten | Normal hill |
9. | September 13, 1998 | Hakuba | Large hill |
10. | September 9, 2001 | Hakuba | Large hill |
statistics
World Cup placements
season | space | Points |
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1989/90 | 52. | 3 |
1991/92 | 29 | 24 |
1992/93 | 16. | 46 |
1993/94 | 15th | 270 |
1994/95 | 59. | 27 |
1995/96 | 5. | 982 |
1996/97 | 29 | 156 |
1997/98 | 4th | 1120 |
1998/99 | 9. | 720 |
1999/00 | 11. | 545 |
2000/01 | 26th | 167 |
2001/02 | 38. | 97 |
Hill records
place | country | Expanse | set up on | Record up |
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Falun | Sweden | 92.5 m ( HS : 100 m) |
February 27, 1993 | February 4, 1995 |
Villach | Austria | 99.0 m ( HS : 98 m) |
December 8, 1995 | December 8, 2001 |
Kuusamo | Finland | 142.5 m ( HS : 142 m) |
February 7, 1996 | November 29, 2002 |
Iron Mountain | United States | 131.5 m ( HS : 130 m) |
February 18, 1996 | February 18, 1996 |
Iron Mountain | United States | 140.0 m ( HS : 130 m) |
February 18, 1996 | current |
Lahti | Finland | 127.0 m ( HS : 130 m) |
March 3, 1996 | March 7, 1997 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Germany | 121.0 m ( HS : 140 m) |
December 31, 1997 | January 1, 1998 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Germany | 122.0 m ( HS : 140 m) |
January 1, 1998 | January 1, 1999 |
Kuopio | Finland | 135.0 m ( HS : 127 m) |
March 4, 1998 | February 22, 2016 |
Trondheim | Norway | 131.0 m ( HS : 140 m) |
March 9, 1999 | March 9, 1999 |
Stams | Austria | 113.5 m ( HS : 115 m) |
August 22, 1999 | August 22, 1999 |
Private
Masahiko Harada has been married since 1994 and has two children. He lives in Sapporo .
Web links
- Masahiko Harada in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Masahiko Harada in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Masahiko Harada on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
- Masahiko Harada in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)
- Masahiko Harada in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf Drescher: When Jens Weißflog brought Harada to despair. In: handelsblatt.com . February 26, 2010, accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Lars Spannagel: When Harada crashed. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 11, 2010, accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ^ Masahiko Harada - From Meltdown to Marvelous. (No longer available online.) In: olympics30.com. Archived from the original on January 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 4, 2016 . 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.
- ^ Ski Jumping at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual. In: sports-reference.com. February 11, 2006, accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ skispringen.com: skispringen.com: Harada new head coach in Japan? In: skispringen.com. Retrieved January 4, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Harada, Masahiko |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 原田 雅 彦 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese ski jumper |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamikawa , Hokkaidō , Japan |