Kenji Ogiwara

Kenji Ogiwara
nation	Japan
birthday	20th December 1969
place of birth	Kusatsu , Gunma Prefecture ,  Japan
job	Politician
Career
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Albertville 1992 team gold Lillehammer 1994 team  Nordic World Ski Championships gold Falun 1993 Single normal hill gold Falun 1993 team gold Thunder Bay 1995 team gold Trondheim 1997 Single normal hill bronze Ramsau 1999 Single large hill
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	December 21, 1991 in Courchevel
World Cup victories (individual)	19 ( details )
Overall World Cup	1. ( 1992/93 , 1993/94 1994/95 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 19th 13 6th
last change: March 4, 2011

Kenji Ogiwara ( Japanese 荻 原 健 司 , Ogiwara Kenji ; born December 20, 1969 in Kusatsu , Agatsuma County , Gunma Prefecture ) is a former Japanese Nordic combiner and politician. From 2004 to 2010 he was a member of the Sangiin , the upper house, for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In the 2004 Sangiin election , Ogiwara ran for the LDP on the proportional representation list. With around 195 thousand preferential votes, he reached number 9 on the LDP list and was therefore safely elected. In the short-lived Abe cabinet and under Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda he was parliamentary secretary ( seimukan ) in the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 2007 to 2008 . In the 2010 Sangiin election , Ogiwara did not run for a second term as MP.

Athletic career

Alongside Bjarte Engen Vik, Ogiwara is considered the best Nordic combined athlete of the 1990s. He was able to secure the overall World Cup in his second season and won it in the two following years. As a member of the Japanese team, he was a double Olympic champion and also won four world championship titles (two singles, two teams). However , he was denied an individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics .

In recognition of his achievements, Ogiwara was the first Japanese to be honored with the Holmenkollen Medal . In addition, at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, he took the Olympic oath on behalf of all participating athletes. At these competitions in his home country, however, he had to be satisfied with fourth place in the individual on the normal hill. In 2002 he resigned from competitive sports. Ogiwara was able to celebrate a total of 19 World Cup victories in eleven years:

No.	date	place	country	discipline
1	5th December 1992	Vuokatti	Finland	Single normal hill
2	December 12, 1992	Courchevel	France	Single large hill
3	December 19, 1992	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Single normal hill
4th	January 23, 1993	Saalfelden	Austria	Single normal hill
5	March 5, 1993	Lahti	Finland	Single normal hill
6th	March 20, 1993	Štrbské Pleso	Slovakia	Single normal hill
7th	4th December 1993	Saalfelden	Austria	Single normal hill
8th	December 11, 1993	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Single normal hill
9	December 15, 1993	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Single normal hill
10	January 8, 1994	Schonach	Germany	Single normal hill
11	January 22, 1994	Trondheim	Norway	Single normal hill
12	January 10, 1995	Val di Fiemme	Italy	Single large hill
13	January 14, 1995	Liberec	Czech Republic	Single large hill
14th	3rd February 1995	Falun	Sweden	Single large hill
15th	February 9, 1995	Oslo	Norway	Single large hill
16	February 18, 1995	Bad Goisern	Austria	Single large hill
17th	March 23, 1995	Sapporo	Japan	Single large hill
18th	January 13, 1996	Štrbské Pleso	Slovakia	Single large hill
19th	February 10, 1996	Chaux-Neuve	France	Single normal hill

Web links

• Kenji Ogiwara in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Official website ( Memento of August 18, 2007 on the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
• Kenji Ogiwara in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ザ ・ 選 挙 : LDP result proportional representation 2004 ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Kantei : List of Parliamentary Secretaries