Masaru Nagaoka

Career
Masaru Nagaoka
nation	Japan Japan
birthday	August 6, 1962
place of birth	Otaru
size	171 cm
Weight	63 kg
society	Nihon University / Taku Gin
National squad	since 1979
status	resigned
End of career	1988
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1979
Overall World Cup	37th ( 1986/87 )

Masaru Nagaoka ( Japanese 長岡勝 , Nagaoka Masaru ; born August 6, 1962 in Otaru , Hokkaidō ) is a former Japanese ski jumper .

Nagaoka made his debut in the ski jumping world cup on December 30, 1979 in Oberstdorf . From the normal hill he reached the 38th place. Despite a lack of success in the following years, Nagaoka was part of the squad for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo . In jumping from the normal hill, he reached 22nd place tied with the German Georg Waldvogel . He jumped from the large hill to 43rd place. On January 24, 1987, in Sapporo, he made the leap into the top ten for the first time and thus for the first time won World Cup points. In addition, this was the highest result of his career. After he also won World Cup points in Lahti and Oslo , he finished the 1986/87 season in 37th place in the overall World Cup standings. Nagaoka ended his active ski jumping career with the start at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary . There he reached 25th place on the normal hill and 48th place on the large hill. In team jumping he reached 11th place together with Katsushi Tao , Shin'ichi Tanaka and Akira Satō .

Web links

Masaru Nagaoka in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Masaru Nagaoka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Ski Jumping at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual . www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on March 21, 2011. 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 June 23, 2009. @1@ 2

^ Japan Ski Jumping at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved June 23, 2009.

personal data
SURNAME	Nagaoka, Masaru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	長岡勝 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Otaru , Hokkaidō , Japan

[1] Ski Jumping at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual . www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on March 21, 2011. 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 June 23, 2009. @1@ 2

[2] Japan Ski Jumping at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved June 23, 2009.