Ski jumping

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 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 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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...