Ryoyu Kobayashi on Saturday added the Beijing Olympic men's ski jumping large hill silver medal to the normal hill gold he won six days ago.
Kobayashi became the second Japanese to medal on both hills at the same Olympics — after Kazuyoshi Funaki in 1998 — but failed in his bid to be the first to win both.
The Japan ace took the lead with the longest first-round jump of 142 meters, worth 147.0 points, at Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre, but could not match Norway's Marius Lindvik's 151.3-point final leap.