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WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS

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Mar 21, 2021
Magus Riiber holds off Akito Watabe to take 35th World Cup win
Norway's Jarl Magnus Riiber earned his 35th Nordic Combined World Cup win in Germany on Saturday, just managing to hold off Japan's fast-finishing Akito Watabe in a sprint to the line.
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Mar 5, 2021
Akito Watabe takes large hill bronze at world championships
Akito Watabe took bronze in the Nordic combined large hill individual Gundersen competition Thursday to reach the podium at a third straight Nordic World Ski Championships.
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Mar 4, 2021
Sara Takanashi claims large hill silver at world championships
Takanashi, who placed third on the normal hill last week, was looking to become the first Japanese woman to win an individual ski jumping world title.
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Feb 27, 2021
Akito Watabe places fifth at world championships as Jarl Magnus Riiber defends crown
Norway's Jarl Magnus Riiber defended his men's normal hill Nordic combined title in the individual Gundersen competition with Akito Watabe finishing fifth at the FIS Ski World Championships in Germany on Friday.
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Feb 26, 2021
Sara Takanashi finishes third at world ski jumping championships
Takanashi, who was unable to improve on her 100-meter first attempt on the normal hill, will have another chance to win gold at next week's big hill event.
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Feb 21, 2021
Asa Ando breaks ground with top-10 slalom finish at worlds
The 24-year-old achieved a best-ever result for a Japanese woman at the worlds, beating Emiko Okazaki's 13th-place runs at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics.
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Mar 3, 2019
Japan fails to end podium drought in Nordic combined team event at worlds
Japan fell behind and had to settle for fourth place in the Nordic combined men's team event Saturday at the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships, failing in its bid to reach the podium for the first time in 10 years.
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Feb 28, 2019
Sara Takanashi sixth in Seefeld as Maren Lundby wins first world title
Japan's four-time World Cup overall champion Sara Takanashi finished sixth in the women's ski jumping final won by Norway's Olympic champion Maren Lundby at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships in Austria on Wednesday.
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Feb 27, 2019
Japan lands sixth, Germany wins first women's team world title
Japanese ski jumpers finished in a disappointing sixth place on Tuesday as Germany claimed the first-ever women's team world title at the Nordic World Ski Championships.
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Feb 24, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi places fourth at world championships
Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi finished fourth in the men's large hill individual event on the fourth day of action at the two-week FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on Saturday.
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Nov 20, 2017
Junshiro Kobayashi wins first World Cup individual title
Junshiro Kobayashi claimed the men's ski jumping title Sunday at the 2017-18 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, topping the podium at the tournament for the first time.
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Mar 4, 2017
Watabe brothers nab sprint bronze
Akito Watabe and younger brother Yoshito earned the men's team sprint bronze on Friday at the Nordic World Ski Championships as Eric Frenzel and Johannes Rydzek rallied to secure victory for Germany.
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Feb 28, 2017
Takanashi reflects on performance at Nordic worlds
Ski jumper Sara Takanashi returned to Japan with mixed feelings on Tuesday after winning two bronze medals at last week's Nordic Ski World Championships in Lahti, Finland.
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Feb 25, 2017
Takanashi comes up short with third-place finish at worlds; Ito claims silver
Sara Takanashi missed out on Japan's first gold medal and failed to break her jinx at the Nordic Ski World Championships when she finished third in the women's ski jumping on Friday.
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Feb 24, 2017
Watabe finishes fifth at Nordic combined worlds
Akito Watabe came up well short in his bid for a first individual medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships, placing fifth in a Nordic combined event on Friday.
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Feb 23, 2013
Teenage ski jumper Takanashi back in spotlight at world championships
Newly crowned overall ski jumping World Cup champion Sara Takanashi will aim for her first gold medal at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships on Friday.

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