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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 ...
Sara Takanashi places second in normal hill event on World Cup circuit
Sara Takanashi finished second in the women's normal hill individual competition on Friday as Norway's Maren Lundby claimed her sixth straight World Cup victory. Takanashi grabbed her second World Cup silver in a row with jumps of 90.0 and 88.5 meters for a total of ...
Matti Nykanen, the four-time Olympic ski jumping champion whose personal life was affected by alcohol problems, has died. He was 55. Nykanen, who also won seven World Championship gold medals, died Sunday, the International Ski Federation (FIS) said. The cause of death was not immediately ...
Sara Takanashi finishes second as Maren Lundby wins fifth straight World Cup meet
Sara Takanashi finished second in the women's normal hill individual competition on Sunday as Norway's Maren Lundby claimed her fifth straight World Cup victory. Takanashi landed on the podium for the sixth time this season after posting jumps of 88.0 and 89.0 meters to net ...
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, ...
Ski jumping: Kobayashi misses out on historical World Cup 7-peat
Ryoyu Kobayashi saw his World Cup winning streak end Sunday when he finished seventh in the second men's large hill individual competition of the weekend, won by Poland's Dawid Kubacki. Kobayashi, who became the fifth male ski jumper to win six consecutive International Ski Federation ...
Ryoyu Kobayashi jumps to sixth straight victory on World Cup circuit
Ryoyu Kobayashi added a sixth straight ski jumping World Cup win to his resume on Saturday in Italy. The 22-year-old Kobayashi landed jumps of 135 and 136 meters to lead the pack with 315.0 points in Val Di Fiemme, becoming the fifth person to win ...
