Ryoyu Kobayashi ties Japan best with 19th Nordic World Cup win
Ryoyu Kobayashi won the ski flying World Cup event in Planica, Slovenia, on Thursday for his 19th victory on the tour, tying the record for most by a Japanese man in Nordic skiing. With his 19th individual win, the 24-year-old Kobayashi drew level with Kenji ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi surpasses Noriaki Kasai with record 18th World Cup win
Ryoyu Kobayashi broke the record for most ski jumping World Cup wins by a Japanese man on Friday, claiming his 18th career crown in Rasnov, Romania. The 24-year-old overtook eight-time Olympian Noriaki Kasai, who has 17 World Cup victories, by winning the first and only ...
Kobayashi, the overall World Cup winner two seasons ago, drew level with veteran Noriaki Kasai after his 17th career victory and first of the season.
Ryoyu Kobayashi finishes behind Stefan Kraft in latest World Cup event
Defending ski jumping World Cup men's champion Ryoyu Kobayashi finished second on Sunday behind World Cup leader Stefan Kraft of Austria. On a day when the second round of jumps had to be abandoned due to strong wind, Kobayashi leapt 242.5 meters but got relatively ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi third in Ski Jumping World Cup, Austria's Stefan Kraft triumphs in Sapporo
Ryoyu Kobayashi finished third in Sunday's FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Sapporo as Austria's Stefan Kraft won the second of two competitions held in the northern Japan city over the weekend. Kraft, Saturday's runner-up, was the standout performer in difficult conditions on Okurayama Hill, ...
Defending champ Ryoyu Kobayashi places fourth in Four Hills Tournament
Ryoyu Kobayashi fell short in the defense of his Four Hills Tournament title after finishing fourth overall in the famous weeklong ski jumping competition. Kobayashi landed jumps of 135.5 and 138.0 meters in the final large-hill event in Bischofshofen on Monday to earn an overall ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi secured his third World Cup win of the season on Sunday as the reigning overall title holder comfortably won the Four Hills Tournament opener in Oberstdorf. Having become only the third jumper in history to sweep all four events at a Four Hills ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi claimed his second victory of the season on Sunday to boost his prospects of retaining the overall World Cup title. The 23-year-old reigning overall World Cup champion, who won last weekend at Klingenthal in Germany, overcame difficult conditions to record jumps of 132.5 ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi soars to victory for second straight Ski Jumping Grand Prix title
Ryoyu Kobayashi won his second straight FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix event on home soil Saturday to conclude a two-day series. The podium looked the same for the second day in a row and was topped by Kobayashi with jumps of 136 and 129.5 meters. ...
Newly crowned World Cup ski jumping champion Ryoyu Kobayashi earned his 13th victory in Sunday's season finale in Slovenia. The 22-year-old totaled 464.9 points on his two jumps to win the season's 28th event handily over Slovene Domen Prevc, who was second with 444.0, and ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi leaps into rarefied air with 20th podium finish
Ryoyu Kobayashi secured his 20th podium of the season when he finished runner-up to German Markus Eisenbichler in the first of two flying hill individual competitions at the season-ending round of the ski jumping World Cup on Friday. According to the International Ski Federation, Kobayashi ...
Japanese ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi soared to his 19th podium of the season when he finished runner-up to Slovenian teenager Domen Prevc in a flying hill World Cup event in Norway on Sunday. While 19-year-old Prevc earned 454.7 points behind jumps of 241 and 232.5 ...
