Evergreen Noriaki Kasai rewrote his own record as the oldest jumper to finish on a World Cup medal podium on Sunday, placing third in the season's final event at the age of 44 years and nine months. The Japanese jumper leaped 239.0 meters to score ...
Noriaki Kasai finished second in the flying hill individual event in Norway on Sunday to eclipse his own record as the oldest skier to finish on a World Cup podium. At 44 years and 9 months, Kasai, who last rewrote the mark a year ago, ...
Noriaki Kasai missed the final podium of the World Cup season by 1.2 points on Sunday. In the 29th and final event of the season, the 43-year-old Kasai leapt 227 and 231.5 meters to score 404.2 points at the K-200, 225 hill, but could not ...
Noriaki Kasai was seventh in his 501st World Cup event in his penultimate outing of the season Friday. Kasai had his back to the wind and uncharacteristically wavered in his first attempt, settling for 216.5 meters. But he adjusted well for the second to leap ...
Ski jumper Noriaki Kasai settled for sixth but was all smiles after competing in a record 500th World Cup event on Thursday. The 43-year-old Kasai, provided with a special No. 500 saddlecloth decorated with a spreading golden eagle design, landed two 225-meter jumps for 397.9 ...
Despite a valiant effort from Kei Nishikori, Japan lost to Britain 3-1 in their Davis Cup World Group first-round tie in Birmingham, England, on Sunday. With Japan trailing 2-1 entering the reverse singles on the final day, Nishikori needed to beat Andy Murray and then ...
Veteran Noriaki Kasai scored his fifth podium finish of the season in finishing third at a World Cup meet on Friday. The 43-year-old Kasai had a first jump of 128.5 meters and nailed the day's longest effort of 134 to move up from fourth to ...
Japan placed third behind Norway and Germany in the World Cup men's team ski jumping competition on Monday. The team of Taku Takeuchi, Kento Sakuyama, Daiki Ito and Noriaki Kasai collected a combined total of 935.4 points for their efforts on the 127-meter hill for ...
Veteran Noriaki Kasai secured his third straight bronze medal at a World Cup event on Friday. The 43-year-old Kasai posted a first jump of 231.5 meters and moved up from fifth place with a second effort of 230 meters on the K-200 flying hill for ...
Veteran Noriaki Kasai provided the highlight of the day with a World Cup hill-record-equaling 143-meter jump to place third for the second event in a row in Norway on Wednesday. The 43-year-old Sochi Olympic silver medalist was 10th after his first jump of 127 meters ...
Evergreen Noriaki Kasai finished fourth in Saturday's World Cup competition, while teammate Daiki Ito was fifth. Peter Prevc won his eighth jump of the season, leading a trio of Slovenes on the podium with 299.0 points on Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium's 134-meter, K-120 hill. His ...
Ski jumper Noriaki Kasai revealed Wednesday that his younger sister, Kumiko Maekawa, died earlier this month at the age of 38. "I'm right in the middle of the season and I can't afford to keep dragging around this sorrow," Kasai wrote a day after attending ...
