Takashi Fujisawa

Takashi Fujisawa
nation	Japan
birthday	February 7, 1943
place of birth	Yoichi ,  Japan
size	160 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
society	Waseda University National Land Planning
National squad	since 1966
status	resigned
End of career	1972
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1966 Oslo Large hill

Takashi Fujisawa ( Japanese 藤 沢 隆 , Fujisawa Takashi ; born February 7, 1943 in Yoichi , Hokkaidō ) is a former Japanese ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Fujisawa started his career as a combiner. At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , he reached 20th place in the individual competition.

His first international tournament as a ski jumper denied Fujisawa with the Nordic World Ski Championships 1966 in Norway Oslo . There he won the silver medal behind the Norwegian Bjørn Wirkola on the large hill . He was the first medalist from Japan at world championships. In the same year he started for the first time in the Four Hills Tournament . His best placement was 13th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , he started in the ski jumping competitions. He reached the 26th place on the normal hill and 18th on the normal hill. On December 28, 1969, he was able to jump in Oberstdorf with the 8th place for the first time at the Four Hills Tournament in one jumping under the top ten. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1970 in Vysoké Tatry , Fujisawa jumped from the large hill to 6th place. In the Four Hills Tournament 1971/72 he was able to achieve the best individual result of his career at this tournament with 4th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He ended his active ski jumping career when he started at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo . There he could jump from the normal hill to the 23rd and from the large hill to the 14th place.

Web links

• Takashi Fujisawa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Takashi Fujisawa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )