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 warmed up for the defense of his Four Hills ski jumping title with a victory in Klingenthal, Germany, on Sunday that gave him the World Cup lead. The 23-year-old, who last season became just the third man to complete a Four Hills clean-sweep, ...
Ski jumper Yukiya Sato claimed his first World Cup win on Saturday, coming from behind in the men's large hill event in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. Sato earned 251.6 points to finish 1.5 ahead of Germany's Karl Geiger. Australia's Philipp Aschenwald took third with 249.4 points. The ...
Sara Takanashi won the FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix title for the eighth straight year despite not participating in the final women's competition in the Czech Republic on Sunday. Takanashi's two wins at earlier events in Germany and France were enough to clinch the title ...
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 ...
Sara Takanashi landed in third place at a women's World Cup meet on Saturday as Germany's Juliane Seyfarth picked up her third straight win on the inaugural Blue Bird Tour in Russia. Takanashi posted jumps of 95.5 and 94.5 meters on the normal hill in ...
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 ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi claims 12th victory this season on World Cup circuit
Ryoyu Kobayashi scored his 12th victory on the 2018-19 World Cup circuit on Thursday, a feat only three men had achieved before him. The 22-year-old became the first non-European to win the men's ski jumping World Cup overall title on Sunday, and in January completed ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi placed third in the men's large hill individual event at the FIS ski jumping World Cup in Lillehammer on Tuesday, the 17th time he has finished on the podium this season. In the event won by Stefan Kraft of Austria, who beat home ...
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 ...
