Noriaki Kasai
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Noriaki Kasai in Bischofshofen (2017) |
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nation | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | June 6, 1972 (age 49) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Shimokawa , Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 176 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 59kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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society | Tsuchiya Home Ski Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
national squad | since 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
pers. best distance | 241.5 m ( Vikersund 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ski Jumping World Cup / A Class Jumping | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup debut | December 17, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup victories (singles) | 17 ( Details ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup victories (Team) | Details ) | 3 (||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall World Cup | 1992/93 , 1998/99 ) | 3rd (||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski Flying World Cup | 2013/14 ) | 2. (1998/99,||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski Jumping World Cup | 4. (1998/99) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Four Hills Tournament | 1992/93 , 1998/99 ) | 2nd (||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
raw air | 2017 ) | 8th (||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nordic Tournament | 1st (1999) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grand Prix victories (singles) | details ) | 2 (||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Prix victories (team) | details ) | 2 (||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Appreciation Grand Prix | 2000 ) | 4th (||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debut in the COC | 1993/94 season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rating COC | 30th ( 1999/2000 ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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1. | March 21, 1992 | Harrachov | flying hill |
2. | January 1, 1993 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | large hill |
3. | January 23, 1993 | Predazzo | large hill |
4. | March 6, 1993 | lahti | normal hill |
5. | January 9, 1994 | Murau | large hill |
6. | March 22, 1998 | Planica | large hill |
7. | January 3, 1999 | innsbruck | large hill |
8th. | January 29, 1999 | willingen | large hill |
9. | January 31, 1999 | willingen | large hill |
10 | March 9, 1999 | Trondheim | large hill |
11. | March 14, 1999 | Oslo | large hill |
12. | March 21, 1999 | Planica | flying hill |
13. | January 1, 2001 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | large hill |
14 | February 9, 2003 | willingen | large hill |
15 | February 28, 2004 | Park City | large hill |
16 | January 11, 2014 | Tauplitz | flying hill |
17 | November 29, 2014 | Kuusamo | large hill |
World Cup victories in the team
No. | date | location | Type |
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1. | March 27, 1993 | Planica | large hill 1 |
2. | January 30, 1999 | willingen | large hill 2 |
3. | January 19, 2001 | Park City | large hill 3 |
Grand Prix victories in singles
No. | date | location | Type |
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1. | Aug 29, 2009 | Hakuba | normal hill |
2. | August 24, 2013 | Hakuba | normal hill |
Grand Prix victories as a team
No. | date | location | Type |
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1. | August 14, 2012 | Courchevel | Normal hill mixed team 4 |
2. | July 27, 2013 | hind tenders | Normal hill mixed team 5 |
Continental Cup victories in singles
No. | date | location | Type |
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1. | January 13, 1996 | Sapporo | large hill |
2. | January 14, 2000 | Sapporo | large hill |
statistics
World Cup placings
season | place | Points |
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1989/90 | 24 | 43 |
1991/92 | 9. | 115 |
1992/93 | 3. | 172 |
1993/94 | 6. | 562 |
1995/96 | 36 | 132 |
1996/97 | 17 | 351 |
1997/98 | 10 | 720 |
1998/99 | 3. | 1598 |
1999/00 | 15 | 436 |
2000/01 | 4. | 728 |
2001/02 | 23 | 219 |
2002/03 | 13. | 548 |
2003/04 | 8th. | 631 |
2004/05 | 16 | 416 |
2005/06 | 21 | 249 |
2006/07 | 26 | 182 |
2007/08 | 34 | 122 |
2008/09 | 15 | 409 |
2009/10 | 17 | 344 |
2010/11 | 24 | 197 |
2011/12 | 51. | 45 |
2012/13 | 24 | 328 |
2013/14 | 5. | 1062 |
2014/15 | 6. | 1137 |
2015/16 | 8th. | 909 |
2016/17 | 15 | 401 |
2017/18 | 26 | 164 |
2018/19 | 37 | 88 |
Grand Prix placings
season | place | Points |
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1994 | 26 | 456 |
1996 | 15 | 79 |
1997 | 11. | 114 |
1998 | 7. | 162 |
1999 | 25 | 38 |
2000 | 4. | 285 |
2001 | 31 | 46 |
2002 | 42 | 17 |
2003 | 13. | 91 |
2004 | 5. | 263 |
2005 | 34 | 44 |
2006 | 30 | 86 |
2007 | 15 | 147 |
2008 | 41 | 59 |
2009 | 10 | 217 |
2010 | 74 | 8th |
2011 | 55 | 27 |
2012 | 22 | 96 |
2013 | 16 | 167 |
2014 | 49 | 31 |
2015 | 42 | 56 |
2016 | 59 | 25 |
2017 | 44 | 38 |
Continental Cup Placements
season | place | Points |
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1993/94 | 119 | 46 |
1994/95 | 174 | 22 |
1995/96 | 34 | 240 |
1996/97 | 220 | 10 |
1997/98 | 85 | 130 |
1999/00 | 30 | 325 |
2002/03 | 61 | 110 |
2019/20 | 66 | 95 |
hill records
location | country | width | placed on | record up |
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Bischofshofen | Austria | 127.5 m ( HS : 140 m) |
January 6, 1993 | January 5, 1994 |
Planica | Slovenia | 145.5 m ( HS : 140 m) |
March 27, 1993 | March 22, 1998 |
Hakuba | Japan | 131.0 m ( HS : 131 m) |
January 26, 1997 | February 15, 1998 |
Kuopio | Finland | 127.5 m ( HS : 127 m) |
March 4, 1998 | March 4, 1998 |
Planica | Slovenia | 147.5 m ( HS : 140 m) |
March 22, 1998 | March 22, 1998 |
willingen | Germany | 132.5 m ( HS : 145 m) |
January 29, 1999 | February 5, 2000 |
hind tenders | Germany | 112.5 m ( HS : 108 m) |
Aug 8, 2000 | current |
Park City | United States | 130.0 m ( HS : 134 m) |
January 19, 2001 | January 19, 2001 |
Sapporo | Japan | 100.0 m ( HS : 100 m) |
March 13, 2004 | March 13, 2004 |
Sapporo | Japan | 101.0 m ( HS : 100 m) |
March 13, 2004 | March 3, 2007 |
Sapporo | Japan | 141.0 m ( HS : 137 m) |
October 28, 2007 | November 4, 2017 |
Bad Mitterndorf/Tauplitz | Austria | 240.5 m ( HS : 225 m) |
January 15, 2016 | January 15, 2016 |
Trondheim | Norway | 143.0 m ( HS : 140 m) |
February 10, 2016 | March 15, 2018 |
See also
web links
- Noriaki Kasai in the International Ski Federation database
- Noriaki Kasai in the Olympedia.org database
- Profile at Tsuchiya Home Ski Club (Japanese)
itemizations
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Why ski jumper Noriaki Kasai is so popular . In: Augsburger Allgemeine , January 2, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
- ↑ Result: Ski Jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 Men . sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
- ↑ Report on www.berkutschi.com from April 27, 2011 , retrieved on January 1, 2012.
- ↑ Report on berkutschi.com from August 29, 2011 , retrieved on January 1, 2012.
- ↑ "Japan First Winner in Mixed Competition" ( Memento of November 14, 2012 at the Internet Archive ) at berkutschi.com, retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ↑ Report on eurosport.de , retrieved on January 3, 2016
- ↑ "Incredible" brand by Kasai. In: sport1.de. January 3, 2017, retrieved January 4, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.eurosport.de/skisprung/wisla/2017-2018/skisprung-weltcup-flugsaurier-noriaki-kasai-will-es-erneut-wissen_sto6412915/story.shtml
- ↑ List of flag bearers at the 2018 Winter Olympics (PDF; 543 kB), accessed 9 September 2020
- ↑ For the first time in 25 years: Kasai misses the Four Hills Tournament , on sportschau.de, December 18, 2019.
- ↑ 569 individual jumping: Oldie Kasai in the Guinness Book of Records , on focus.de, retrieved on May 8, 2020
- ↑ Dream of Beijing 2022 - Continental Cup Engelberg as reality on the SRF website of December 30, 2020, retrieved on June 26, 2021
- ↑ NORIAKI KASAI WANTS TO START AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES AT THE AGE OF ALMOST 50 - NO END OF CAREER , eurosport.de , December 2, 2021
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Kasai before incredible anniversary . In: laola1.at , March 11, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |