Noriaki Kasai

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Noriaki Kasai
Noriaki Kasai in Bischofshofen (2017)

Noriaki Kasai in Bischofshofen (2017)

nation Japan Japan
birthday June 6, 1972 (age 49)
place of birth Shimokawa , Japan
size 176 cm
Weight 59kg
Career
society Tsuchiya Home Ski Team
national squad since 1988
pers. best distance 241.5 m ( Vikersund 2017)
status active
medal table
Olympic medals 0×gold medal 2×silver medal 1×bronze medal
World Cup medals 0×gold medal 2×silver medal 5×bronze medal
SFWM medals 1×gold medal 0×silver medal 0×bronze medal
National Medals 5×gold medal 0×silver medal 0×bronze medal
 winter Olympics
silver 1994 Lillehammer team
silver 2014 Sochi large hill
bronze 2014 Sochi team
 Nordic World Ski Championships
silver 1999 Ramsau team
silver 2003 Val di Fiemme team
bronze 2003 Val di Fiemme large hill
bronze 2003 Val di Fiemme normal hill
bronze 2007 Sapporo team
bronze 2009 Liberec team
bronze 2015 Falun mixed team
 Ski Flying World Championships
gold 1992 Harrachov singles
Japanese Championships
gold 1993 Hakuba Individual normal hill
gold 1994 Sapporo Individual large hill
gold 1999 Hakuba Individual normal hill
gold 2010 Sapporo Individual large hill
gold 2017 Sapporo Individual large hill
Ski Jumping World Cup / A Class Jumping
 World Cup debut December 17, 1988
 World Cup victories (singles) 17 ( Details )
 World Cup victories (Team) 03 ( Details )
 Overall World Cup 03rd ( 1992/93 , 1998/99 )
 Ski Flying World Cup 02. (1998/99, 2013/14 )
 Ski Jumping World Cup 04. (1998/99)
 Four Hills Tournament 02nd ( 1992/93 , 1998/99 )
 raw air 08th ( 2017 )
 Nordic Tournament 01st (1999)
 podium finishes 1. 2. 3.
 individual jumping 14 12 26
 ski flying 3 1 7
 team jumping 3 5 11
Ski Jumping Grand Prix
 Grand Prix victories (singles) 02 ( details )
 Grand Prix victories (team) 02 ( details )
 Appreciation Grand Prix 04th ( 2000 )
 podium finishes 1. 2. 3.
 individual jumping 2 1 8th
 team jumping 0 3 1
 Mixed team jumping 2 0 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
 Debut in the COC 1993/94 season
 Rating COC 30th ( 1999/2000 )
 podium finishes 1. 2. 3.
 individual jumping 0 0 1
last modified: March 9, 2019

Noriaki Kasai ( Japanese 葛西紀明 Kasai Noriaki ; born June 6, 1972 in Shimokawa , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese ski jumper . He jumps for the eponymous works club of homebuilder Tsuchiya Holdings in Sapporo . He became ski flying world champion in 1992 and won nine medals at the Nordic World Ski Championships and Olympic Winter Games .

Kasai has competed in the Ski Jumping World Cup since 1988 and is the oldest and most experienced active athlete in his discipline. He has been among the best in the world since the 1991/92 season and is one of the most consistent ski jumpers of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Since 1992 Kasai has competed in all Olympic Winter Games and in 2018 he was the first winter sportsman ever to take part in eight.

career

Kasai started ski jumping at the age of eight. He made his World Cup debut on December 17, 1988 in Sapporo. His first appearance outside of Japan was at the 1989 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti , Finland . At the beginning of his World Cup career, Kasai still jumped the parallel style that was common at the time, later he switched his jumping system to the V-style , with which he celebrated his successes.

On March 22, 1992, he celebrated what is probably the greatest success of his career to date: in Harrachov , Czech Republic , he became ski flying world champion and at the same time the last title holder with the parallel style. This victory was also counted as his first victory in the Ski Jumping World Cup. In total, he has won 17 World Cups over the course of his career. His best finishes in the overall World Cup were third places in the 1992/93 and 1998/99 seasons. Most recently, in the 2013/14 season, he finished 5th overall. With 1603 points in the 1998/99 season, he holds the record for a third-place finisher.

When the Japanese team's biggest success, winning the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in front of a home crowd in Nagano , he had to let Takanobu Okabe go first and got nothing.

At World Championships he won with the team in 1999 in Ramsau , Austria , in 2003 in Val di Fiemme , Italy , and in 2007 in Sapporo and in 2009 in Liberec , Czech Republic, bronze. In 2003 he also won individual bronze on the large and normal hills.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Canada , he finished 17th in ski jumping on the normal hill, his sixth time.

After the earthquake and tsunami disaster in his home country with the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in March 2011, Kasai got involved with children from the affected region. He collected donations and also invited families from Fukushima to the Summer Grand Prix in Hakuba .

He won the premiere of the mixed team competition as part of the Summer Grand Prix on August 14, 2012 in Courchevel , France , with the Japanese team.

On January 11, 2014, at the age of 41, Kasai won a ski flying World Cup competition at Kulm in Tauplitz , Austria . It was his first victory in the Ski Jumping World Cup in almost ten years (before that on February 28, 2004 in Salt Lake City ), surpassing the age record of his compatriot Takanobu Okabe, who had won in Kuopio , Finland in 2009 at the age of 38. Kasai is by far the oldest winner of a World Cup ski jumping event. With this 16th World Cup success, he also surpassed Kazuyoshi Funaki and became the Japanese with the most individual victories. It was not until February 19, 2021 that Ryōyū Kobayashi was able to replace him in the all-time list of the best . Kasai improved his age record to 42 years and 176 days on November 29, 2014 when he teamed with Simon Ammann to win the third individual competition of the season in Kuusamo , Finland . Having won silver and bronze at the 2014 Winter Olympics , he is the oldest medalist in ski jumping at the Olympic Games.

He achieved a personal best of 240.5 m in 2015 on the ski flying hill in Vikersund ; at the age of 42 years, 8 months and 9 days. He surpassed the Japanese national record by Daiki Itō by half a meter. He was able to achieve the same distance again on the first competition day of the 2016 Ski Flying World Championships at Kulm.

On March 17, 2016, he completed his 500th individual competition in the World Cup in Planica , Slovenia , with the special start number 500. On January 4, 2017, he was honored in Innsbruck , Austria, for his 100th participation in the qualification for a ski jumping as part of the Four Hills Tournament the day before.

On March 19, 2017, at the age of 44, he again improved his personal best at ski flying on Vikersundbakken to 241.5 meters and at the same time, with his 2nd place in the competition there, his own record as the oldest ski jumper on a podium.

In February 2018, Kasai made his eighth Winter Olympics appearance in Pyeongchang , South Korea , setting a record for most Winter Olympics appearances. He also carried the Japanese flag at the opening ceremony. Kasai placed 21st in the individual competition on the normal hill , 33rd in the individual competition on the large hill , and with the Japanese team he finished sixth on the large hill .

After mixed results at the beginning of the 2018/19 season , he achieved his first top 10 placement of the season on January 27, 2019 on the large hill in his hometown of Sapporo with seventh place and on March 9, 2019 in the team competition in Oslo as part of the Raw Air a second place.

In 2019/20 Kasai did not take part in the Four Hills Tournament for the first time in 25 years because he was not nominated for sporting reasons (no World Cup point in the 2019/20 season yet ). He competed in a total of seven competitions until the end of the season, but without achieving a World Cup point.

In May 2020, Kasai was entered into the Guinness Book of Records for the third time for his 569 participations in individual competitions as part of the World Cup . In the same he was already noted at this time due to his eight Olympic and 13 World Championship participations.

In the 2020/21 season , Kasai did not jump in the World Cup, but still stated that he would like to participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing . In early 2022, it was announced that he would not appear there as an active athlete.

Kasai is now head of the factory team at Tsuchiya Holdings.

private life

On February 22, 2014, just after the Olympics, he married Reina Harima. On January 30, 2016, their daughter was born. A son followed in 2019.

successes

World Cup victories in singles

No. date location Type
1. March 21, 1992 Czechoslovakia Harrachov flying hill
2. January 1, 1993 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen large hill
3. January 23, 1993 Italy Predazzo large hill
4. March 6, 1993 Finland lahti normal hill
5. January 9, 1994 Austria Murau large hill
6. March 22, 1998 Slovenia Planica large hill
7. January 3, 1999 Austria innsbruck large hill
8th. January 29, 1999 Germany willingen large hill
9. January 31, 1999 Germany willingen large hill
10 March 9, 1999 Norway Trondheim large hill
11. March 14, 1999 Norway Oslo large hill
12. March 21, 1999 Slovenia Planica flying hill
13. January 1, 2001 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen large hill
14 February 9, 2003 Germany willingen large hill
15 February 28, 2004 United States Park City large hill
16 January 11, 2014 Austria Tauplitz flying hill
17 November 29, 2014 Finland Kuusamo large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No. date location Type
1. March 27, 1993 Slovenia Planica large hill 1
2. January 30, 1999 Germany willingen large hill 2
3. January 19, 2001 United States Park City large hill 3

Grand Prix victories in singles

No. date location Type
1. Aug 29, 2009 Japan Hakuba normal hill
2. August 24, 2013 Japan Hakuba normal hill

Grand Prix victories as a team

No. date location Type
1. August 14, 2012 France Courchevel Normal hill
mixed team 4
2. July 27, 2013 Germany hind tenders Normal hill
mixed team 5

Continental Cup victories in singles

No. date location Type
1. January 13, 1996 Japan Sapporo large hill
2. January 14, 2000 Japan Sapporo large hill

statistics

World Cup placings

season place Points
1989/90 24 0043
1991/92 09. 0115
1992/93 03. 0172
1993/94 06. 0562
1995/96 36 0132
1996/97 17 0351
1997/98 10 0720
1998/99 03. 1598
1999/00 15 0436
2000/01 04. 0728
2001/02 23 0219
2002/03 13. 0548
2003/04 08th. 0631
2004/05 16 0416
2005/06 21 0249
2006/07 26 0182
2007/08 34 0122
2008/09 15 0409
2009/10 17 0344
2010/11 24 0197
2011/12 51. 0045
2012/13 24 0328
2013/14 05. 1062
2014/15 06. 1137
2015/16 08th. 0909
2016/17 15 0401
2017/18 26 0164
2018/19 37 0088

Grand Prix placings

season place Points
1994 26 456
1996 15 079
1997 11. 114
1998 07. 162
1999 25 038
2000 04. 285
2001 31 046
2002 42 017
2003 13. 091
2004 05. 263
2005 34 044
2006 30 086
2007 15 147
2008 41 059
2009 10 217
2010 74 008th
2011 55 027
2012 22 096
2013 16 167
2014 49 031
2015 42 056
2016 59 025
2017 44 038

Continental Cup Placements

season place Points
1993/94 119 046
1994/95 174 022
1995/96 034 240
1996/97 220 010
1997/98 085 130
1999/00 030 325
2002/03 061 110
2019/20 066 095

hill records

location country width placed on record up
Bischofshofen Austria Austria 127.5 m
( HS : 140 m)		 January 6, 1993 January 5, 1994
Planica Slovenia Slovenia 145.5 m
( HS : 140 m)		 March 27, 1993 March 22, 1998
Hakuba Japan Japan 131.0 m
( HS : 131 m)		 January 26, 1997 February 15, 1998
Kuopio Finland Finland 127.5 m
( HS : 127 m)		 March 4, 1998 March 4, 1998
Planica Slovenia Slovenia 147.5 m
( HS : 140 m)		 March 22, 1998 March 22, 1998
willingen Germany Germany 132.5 m
( HS : 145 m)		 January 29, 1999 February 5, 2000
hind tenders Germany Germany 112.5 m
( HS : 108 m)		 Aug 8, 2000 current
Park City United States United States 130.0 m
( HS : 134 m)		 January 19, 2001 January 19, 2001
Sapporo Japan Japan 100.0 m
( HS : 100 m)		 March 13, 2004 March 13, 2004
Sapporo Japan Japan 101.0 m
( HS : 100 m)		 March 13, 2004 March 3, 2007
Sapporo Japan Japan 141.0 m
( HS : 137 m)		 October 28, 2007 November 4, 2017
Bad Mitterndorf/Tauplitz Austria Austria 240.5 m
( HS : 225 m)		 January 15, 2016 January 15, 2016
Trondheim Norway Norway 143.0 m
( HS : 140 m)		 February 10, 2016 March 15, 2018

See also

web links

Commons : Noriaki Kasai  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ a b 88/89 FIS WORLD CUP SKI JUMPING. 5th World Cup Competition. skijump-db.net Archived from the original on April 7, 2005 ; retrieved 12 January 2014 (English, date of competition not 17 November 1988 as stated in the source, but 17 December 1988).
  2. ↑ Why ski jumper Noriaki Kasai is so popular . In: Augsburger Allgemeine , January 2, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Result: Ski Jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 Men . sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
  4. ↑ Report on www.berkutschi.com from April 27, 2011 , retrieved on January 1, 2012.
  5. ↑ Report on berkutschi.com from August 29, 2011 , retrieved on January 1, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Japan First Winner in Mixed Competition" ( Memento of November 14, 2012 at the Internet Archive ) at berkutschi.com, retrieved August 15, 2012.
  7. ↑ Report on eurosport.de , retrieved on January 3, 2016
  8. ↑ "Incredible" brand by Kasai. In: sport1.de. January 3, 2017, retrieved January 4, 2017 .
  9. ↑ https://www.eurosport.de/skisprung/wisla/2017-2018/skisprung-weltcup-flugsaurier-noriaki-kasai-will-es-erneut-wissen_sto6412915/story.shtml
  10. ↑ List of flag bearers at the 2018 Winter Olympics (PDF; 543 kB), accessed 9 September 2020
  11. ↑ For the first time in 25 years: Kasai misses the Four Hills Tournament , on sportschau.de, December 18, 2019.
  12. ↑ 569 individual jumping: Oldie Kasai in the Guinness Book of Records , on focus.de, retrieved on May 8, 2020
  13. ↑ Dream of Beijing 2022 - Continental Cup Engelberg as reality on the SRF website of December 30, 2020, retrieved on June 26, 2021
  14. ↑ NORIAKI KASAI WANTS TO START AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES AT THE AGE OF ALMOST 50 - NO END OF CAREER , eurosport.de , December 2, 2021
  15. ↑ Noriaki Kasai - At almost 50 years old, you still have dreams: The "pterosaur" wants to be more than Kobayashi's boss on eurosport.de from January 6, 2022, retrieved on January 8, 2022
  16. ↑ Kasai before incredible anniversary . In: laola1.at , March 11, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  17. ↑ Unlucky in sport, lucky in private: Why Kasai is happy even without a tour . , eurosport.de, January 1, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kasai, Noriaki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 葛西紀明
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese ski jumper
BIRTH DATE June 6, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Shimokawa , Hokkaido , Japan