Ryoyu Kobayashi

Ryoyu Kobayashi
Ryōyū Kobayashi in Wisła 2018
nation	Japan
birthday	8th November 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Hachimantai , Japan
size	173 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
society	Tsuchiya Home Ski Team
Trainer	Janne Väätäinen Hideharu Miyahira Richard Schallert
Pers. Best	252.0 m ( Planica , March 24, 2019)
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championship medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 2019 Seefeld team  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships bronze 2016 Râșnov singles bronze 2016 Râșnov team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	0January 23, 2016
World Cup victories (individual)	016 ( details )
Overall World Cup	001. ( 2018/19 )
Ski flying world cup	001. ( 2018/19 )
Four Hills Tournament	001. ( 2018/19 )
Raw Air	001. ( 2019 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 14th 2 8th  Ski flying 2 3 0  Team jumping 0 1 3
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	0July 16, 2016
Grand Prix victories (individual)	004 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	004th ( 2019 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 4th 1 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	0January 16, 2015
Overall ranking COC	145th ( 2014/15 )
last change: February 16, 2020

Ryōyū Kobayashi ( Japanese 小林 陵 侑 , Kobayashi Ryōyū ; born November 8, 1996 in Hachimantai ) is a Japanese ski jumper . His greatest successes so far are winning the Ski Jumping World Cup 2018/19 as well as winning the Four Hills Tournament 2018/19 , in which he was able to win all four competitions.

Career

Ryoyu Kobayashi came to ski jumping through his father, who is a sports instructor , and began his professional career as part of two FIS competitions on March 1st and 3rd, 2013 in Sapporo , where he was 26th and 30th.

However, he did not contest his next competitions again until September 2013 as part of the FIS Cup at its station in Râșnov , where he took seventh and first place and thus won his first competition. In 2014 and 2015 he won the Junior Nordic Combined at the Japanese National Sports Festival . In the 2014/15 season , Kobayashi made his debut in the Continental Cup in two competitions on January 16 and 17, 2015 in Sapporo and finished 22nd and 26th.

Kobayashi made his World Cup debut in the 2015/16 season on January 23, 2016 at the team competition in Zakopane , where he finished eighth with the Japanese team. On the following day, he started in an individual competition in the World Cup for the first time and finished in seventh place. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 2016 in Râşnov, Kobayashi won both the bronze medal in the individual and the bronze medal in the team competition with Masamitsu Itō , Yūken Iwasa and Naoki Nakamura . In the mixed team competition he was sixth. He finished his debut season in the World Cup as 42nd overall with 55 points.

On July 16, 2016, Kobayashi made his debut in Courchevel in the Summer Grand Prix , where he jumped into the top ten in fifth and also scored his first points. At the end of the summer, after two more top ten placements in Hakuba , he finished 14th overall. Kobayashi was unable to confirm the good performances from his debut season and the previous summer in the winter of the 2016/17 season . In the World Cup he did not get above rank 33 in Ruka and thus remained without a World Cup point. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he was only used in team jumping, where he finished seventh with the Japanese team.

On August 27, 2017, he jumped on the podium for the first time in a Summer Grand Prix competition in Hakuba . He finished second behind his brother Junshirō . In the following winter he was able to achieve better performances again, also in the World Cup. On November 25, 2017, he and Taku Takeuchi , Noriaki Kasai and Junshirō Kobayashi achieved his first podium finish in the team competition in third place in the World Cup. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2018 in Oberstdorf , he finished 16th in individual.

In February 2018 he took part in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . He started in all three competitions. He finished seventh in the individual competition on the normal hill and tenth in the individual competition on the large hill , making him the best Japanese in each case. In the team competition on the large hill , he was sixth. Throughout the season he regularly jumped into the points in the World Cup and on March 4, 2018 in Lahti he achieved his best individual World Cup placement in sixth place. With 187 points and rank 24 in the overall World Cup, he improved his result from his debut season 2015/16.

At the start of the 2018/19 World Cup season , he achieved his first podium finish in third in the jumping in Wisła . A week later, on November 24 and 25, 2018 in Kuusamo and on December 2, 2018 in Nizhny Tagil, he achieved his first three individual World Cup victories. After another day's win in Engelberg , he won the Four Hills Tournament 2018/19 . He succeeded as the third jumper - after Sven Hannawald in the 2001/02 tour and Kamil Stoch in the previous season - to win all four individual competitions of a tour. With the sixth successive triumph on January 12, 2018 in Val di Fiemme , he set the record for the most World Cup victories in a row. At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tyrol , he won the bronze medal in team jumping with his teammates Yukiya Satō , Daiki Itō and Junshirō Kobayashi . In the individual competitions, he finished fourth (large hill) and 14th (normal hill). He had led from the normal hill in the first run, but suffered in the second run from the onset of snowfall, which extremely slowed the approach lane of the Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze , which particularly disadvantaged the leading jumpers of the first run. The German national coach Werner Schuster then said that the result was unfair due to the weather conditions: “The athletes Geiger and Kobayashi, they were kidnapped today. They would have deserved a medal too. ”In the final mixed team competition he finished fifth with the Japanese team. Although he was only able to take fifth place at the World Cup competition in Oslo as part of Raw Air 2019 , he increased his lead in the overall World Cup ranking, in which he was unmatched in first place. Kobayashi is the first non-European to win the overall World Cup. With victories in the individual in Trondheim and the prologue of ski flying in Vikersund, second places in the team competition in Oslo, the prologues in Lillehammer and Trondheim as well as in ski flying in Vikersund and a third place in the jumping in Lillehammer, he was able to end up with a 2.9 point lead won the Raw Air for the first time in front of the Austrian Stefan Kraft , who had led up to the last competition.

Jump style

Ryōyū Kobayashi's strength is his precise and powerful jump, which enables him to build up his jumping system quickly.

Private

Ryōyū Kobayashi has an older brother, Junshirō (* 1991), an older sister, Yuka (* 1994), and a younger brother, Tatsunao (* 2001), who are also active as ski jumpers.

In an interview, he referred to himself as a "neo-Japanese" without specifying exactly what he meant by that. In the media, his public appearances, such as the emotional cheering, are interpreted as a deviation from traditional Japanese restraint .

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
01.	November 24, 2018	Kuusamo	Large hill
02.	November 25, 2018	Kuusamo	Large hill
03.	02nd December 2018	Nizhny Tagil	Large hill
04th	December 16, 2018	Engelberg	Large hill
05.	December 30, 2018	Oberstdorf	Large hill
06th	01st January 2019	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
07th	04th January 2019	innsbruck	Large hill
08th.	0January 6, 2019	Bischofshofen	Large hill
09.	January 12, 2019	Predazzo	Large hill
10.	02nd February 2019	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
11.	17th February 2019	Willingen	Large hill
12.	March 14, 2019	Trondheim	Large hill
13.	March 24, 2019	Planica	Ski jump
14th	15th December 2019	Klingenthal	Large hill
15th	22nd December 2019	Engelberg	Large hill
16.	29th December 2019	Oberstdorf	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
01.	August 24, 2018	Hakuba	Large hill
02.	August 25, 2018	Hakuba	Large hill
03.	23 August 2019	Hakuba	Large hill
04th	August 24, 2019	Hakuba	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2015/16	42.	0055
2017/18	24.	0187
2018/19	01.	2085
2019/20	03.	1178

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2016	14th	165
2017	15th	149
2018	07th	294
2019	04th	261

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
2016/17	43.	0305.3
2017/18	22nd	0815.9
2018/19	01.	1098.0
2019/20	04th	1096.0

Raw air placements

season	space	Points
2017	39.	0939.4
2018	11.	2140.1
2019	01.	2461.5

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Ruka	Finland	147.5 m ( HS : 142 m)	November 25, 2018	current
Engelberg	Switzerland	144.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	December 16, 2018	current
Val di Fiemme	Italy	136.0 m ( HS : 135 m)	January 12, 2019	current
Seefeld	Austria	108.5 m ( HS : 109 m)	February 28, 2019	2nd March 2019
Seefeld	Austria	113.0 m ( HS : 109 m)	2nd March 2019	current
Planica	Slovenia	252.0 m ( HS : 240 m)	March 24, 2019	current

Web links

Commons : Ryōyū Kobayashi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ryōyū Kobayashi in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ryoyu Kobayashi on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The highest and fastest. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 23, 2018, accessed on January 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ 小林 陵 侑 、 好 機 逃 さ ず 2 連 覇 ス キ ー 国体 ・ 少年 複合 . (No longer available online.) In: Iwate Nippo WebNews. February 23, 2015, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; Retrieved March 19, 2016 (Japanese). 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.  
3. ↑ Next win: Record for Kobayashi. Sport1.de, January 12, 2019, accessed on January 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ "" Completely irregular ": German ski jumpers go empty-handed" , on www.tagesspiegel.de, accessed on March 3, 2019.
5. ↑ Sigi Lützow: The Tour and Her New Sun , derstandard.at from December 28, 2018, accessed on January 4, 2019.
6. ↑ 【ジ ャ ン プ】 小林 兄弟 が 初 ワ ン ツ ー 、 弟 ・ 陵 侑 が Ｖ！ 兄 ・ ・ 潤 志 郎 ２ 位 . (No longer available online.) In: Sports Hochi. February 14, 2016, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; Retrieved March 19, 2016 (Japanese). 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.  
7. ↑ Ryoyu Kobayashi: The slightly crazier Japanese , tagesspiegel.de on January 2, 2019, accessed on February 20, 2020.
8. ↑ Kobayashi - a phenomenon in the ski jumping scene , kicker.de on January 6, 2019, accessed on February 20, 2020.