The sushi-powered Japanese ski jumping team of veteran Noriaki Kasai, Daiki Ito, Taku Takeuchi and Shohei Tochimoto secured a podium finish in third at a World Cup event in Finland on Saturday.
Kasai was the team's standout with leaps of 125.5 and 126 meters as the Sochi Olympic bronze medalists accumulated a total of 1031.7 points to finish behind winner Norway (1069.1) and Germany (1040.2).
"It's a happy day for us and we are very satisfied," said Sochi individual large hill silver medalist Kasai, part of the team that missed out on a team medal in fourth place at the world ski championships in Falun, Sweden, a week earlier.
"After Falun we were tired, but we stayed in Helsinki for three days and went to a Japanese restaurant. That gave us power for today. The Finnish sushi was good, but not as good as in Japan," he was quoted as saying on the International Ski Federation's website.