Ryoyu Kobayashi breaks European lock on men's World Cup title
Ryoyu Kobayashi made history on Sunday by becoming the first non-European to win the men's ski jumping World Cup overall title. Kobayashi finished fifth in the large hill event in Oslo, but nevertheless built an unassailable lead — 500 points over second-place Kamil Stoch of ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi leads Japan to silver during World Cup team event
Ryoyu Kobayashi helped Japan's men claim silver in a World Cup ski jumping team event on Saturday. The team of Kobayashi, his older brother Junshiro, Yukiya Sato and Noriaki Kasai claimed 456.8 points to finish behind Norway, which captured the gold with 469.8. Austria took ...
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 team captures bronze at Nordic World Ski Championships
Japan, anchored by overall World Cup leader Ryoyu Kobayashi, finished third in the men's team competition on Sunday and claimed the country's first medal of the 2019 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Japan — composed of Kobayashi, his older brother Junshiro, Daiki Ito and Yukiya ...
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. While Kobayashi failed to become the first Japanese man in 20 years to win an individual ...
Kobayashi leaps into rarefied air with 11th World Cup win of season
Ryoyu Kobayashi won his 11th event on the 2018-2019 World Cup circuit on Sunday, the third day of competition in Willingen, becoming the sixth ski jumper in history, and the first Japanese, to post 11 wins in a single season. Kobayashi, who had the longest ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi ties national record with 15th World Cup podium
Ryoyu Kobayashi landed on the ski jumping World Cup podium for the 15th time this season following his third-place finish in Willingen, Germany. The 22-year-old has now equaled the record number of podium finishes in a single season by a Japanese skier, set by Kazuyoshi ...
Japan's Sara Takanashi overcame difficult weather Sunday to claim her first World Cup victory of the season and end Maren Lundby's winning streak. At Ljubno's Savina Ski Jumping Center, Takanashi triumphed in severe wind conditions that saw qualification cancelled and caused several delays over the ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi lifts Japan to third at World Cup team event
Overall leader and breakout talent Ryoyu Kobayashi helped Japan's men reach their first World Cup team podium of the season on Sunday. Kobayashi's final 125-meter jump lifted Japan over favorites Poland as the team came back from fourth place in the first round to end ...
Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi won the flying hill event held in the German resort of Oberstdorf Saturday for his 10th victory of the World Cup season. Kobayashi, who scored 427.0 points with jumps of 224 and 234 meters on the 235-meter hill, extended his lead ...
Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi finished third in the competition in Sapporo on Sunday, landing on the ski jumping World Cup podium for the first time in four meets. Kobayashi recorded jumps of 124.5 and 129.5 meters in the large hill individual event to finish with a ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi moved by hero's welcome upon return to Japan
Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi said he was "surprised" to be greeted by so many television cameras and reporters at Haneda airport on Tuesday as he returned home midway through his remarkable breakout season. Kobayashi has won nine events on the World Cup circuit this season, ...
