Nordic combined skier Akito Watabe won his first World Cup event in two seasons on Sunday, moving to within one win of equaling Kenji Ogiwara's Japan record of 19 World Cup victories. The win at Lahti was Watabe's first since he won the season-ending individual ...
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. Team Japan, composed of brothers ...
Japan earns Nordic combined silver at World Cup season opener
Japan's men's team won silver at the FIS Nordic combined World Cup season opener on Sunday, stepping onto the podium for the first time in five years. The team of two-time Olympic silver medalist Akito Watabe, his younger brother Yoshito, Hideaki Nagai and Go Yamamoto ...
Akito Watabe finishes Nordic combined World Cup championship season in style
Akito Watabe overcame a 9-second deficit to win the season's final Nordic combined World Cup race on Sunday. It was the eighth win of the season for Watabe, who had already clinched the World Cup championship, and the 17th time he has stood atop a ...
Japan will take the fight to Germany once again at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Thursday in the Nordic combined team event. Since Akito Watabe succumbed to the Germans in both the normal hill and large hill individual events, coach Keizo Masaki will be counting on ...
Akito Watabe looks for answers after missing podium in Nordic combined
With the gold medal he has been waiting for his entire career at stake, Akito Watabe went all in to win the Nordic combined large hill 10-km final. "I was speaking with (coach Takanori Kono) and we were saying that if we want to win ...
Germany records clean sweep in Nordic combined large hill event
Akito Watabe had his heart broken for the second time at the Pyeongchang Olympics, missing gold again on Tuesday, this time in the Nordic combined large hill 10-km event. Watabe opened the cross-country leg with a 31-second lead over German gold medalist Johannes Rydzek after ...
Akito Watabe earns second consecutive Nordic combined silver medal
Just 4.8 seconds separated Akito Watabe from Olympic gold at the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Wednesday, as the Nordic combined athlete was left stranded when defending champion Eric Frenzel turned on the final-kilometer afterburners to claim the championship. Frenzel became just the third man to ...
Akito Watabe extends Nordic combined World Cup winning streak to four
Akito Watabe won his fourth straight Nordic combined World Cup on Saturday, after sweeping the men's event in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. Watabe jumped 130.5 meters and finished the 10-km race in 24 minutes, 14.6 seconds. Norway's Jan Schmid was 1:12.6 behind for second place, while ...
Akito Watabe picked up his third straight Nordic combined World Cup win on Sunday and became only the second athlete to sweep the three-day Seefeld Triple event in Austria. The 29-year-old Sochi silver medalist, who will represent Japan in his fourth straight Winter Olympics at ...
Akito Watabe captures second Nordic combined title of season
Akito Watabe claimed his second Nordic combined World Cup title of the season on Friday, winning the opener of a three-day event. Watabe's ski jump of 104.5 meters earned 137.1 points, putting him in second place behind Norway's Jarl Magnus Riiber with a 21-second time ...
Akito Watabe places third in Nordic combined's World Cup opener
Akito Watabe finished third in Nordic combined's World Cup season opener on Friday. Watabe, who won two medals at March's world championships, was third after a 125.0-meter ski jump. He started the 5-km cross-country race with a 33 second deficit, and crossed the line in ...
