Yukio Kasaya

Yukio Kasaya
Yukio Kasaya (1972)
nation	Japan
birthday	August 17, 1943
place of birth	Yoichi ,  Japan
size	170 cm
Career
National squad	since 1969
status	resigned
End of career	1973
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1972 Sapporo Normal hill  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1970 Vysoké Tatry Normal hill gold 1972 Sapporo Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	10. ( 1969/70 )

Yukio Kasaya (Japanese 笠 谷 幸 生Kasaya Yukio ; born August 17, 1943 in Yoichi , Hokkaidō ) is a former Japanese ski jumper .

Career

He was one of the most successful ski jumpers of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970 he was runner-up on the normal hill behind the Russian Gari Napalkow at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia . In 1971/72 he won the first three jumping competitions at the Four Hills Tournament and would have taken the overall victory, perhaps even as the first athlete to win all competitions, which Sven Hannawald only succeeded in 2001/02. Before the last competition in Bischofshofen , however, Kasaya (like the entire Japanese contingent) had to return to Japan on the instructions of the team leadership to prepare for the 1972 Winter Olympics , which took place in Sapporo , Japan . There he won the gold medal on the normal hill and became a Japanese national hero - the silver and bronze medals also went to Japan. Since the Nordic World Ski Championships were being held at the same time as the Olympic Games at that time, Kasaya became world champion on the normal hill with his victory. When jumping on the large hill on February 11, 1972, he was in second place after Wojciech Fortuna after the first run , but he failed the second round - also due to bad wind conditions - so that he fell back to 7th place in the classification.

statistics

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Oberstdorf	Germany	106.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 30, 1969	December 30, 1975

Web links

Commons : Yukio Kasaya  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Yukio Kasaya in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Yukio Kasaya in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Yukio Kasaya in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arbeiterzeitung Wien of February 12, 1972, page 14.