Japan earns Nordic combined silver at World Cup season opener
Japan's men's team won silver at the FIS Nordic combined World Cup season opener on Sunday, stepping onto the podium for the first time in five years. The team of two-time Olympic silver medalist Akito Watabe, his younger brother Yoshito, Hideaki Nagai and Go Yamamoto ...
Japan will take the fight to Germany once again at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Thursday in the Nordic combined team event. Since Akito Watabe succumbed to the Germans in both the normal hill and large hill individual events, coach Keizo Masaki will be counting on ...
Akito Watabe earns second consecutive Nordic combined silver medal
Just 4.8 seconds separated Akito Watabe from Olympic gold at the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Wednesday, as the Nordic combined athlete was left stranded when defending champion Eric Frenzel turned on the final-kilometer afterburners to claim the championship. Frenzel became just the third man to ...
Akito Watabe extends Nordic combined World Cup winning streak to four
Akito Watabe won his fourth straight Nordic combined World Cup on Saturday, after sweeping the men's event in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. Watabe jumped 130.5 meters and finished the 10-km race in 24 minutes, 14.6 seconds. Norway's Jan Schmid was 1:12.6 behind for second place, while ...
Akito Watabe and younger brother Yoshito earned the men's team sprint bronze on Friday at the Nordic World Ski Championships as Eric Frenzel and Johannes Rydzek rallied to secure victory for Germany. Frenzel and Rydzek proved to be unbeatable again, coming from behind to beat ...
Yoshito Watabe sits seventh after first day of World Cup Nordic Combined event
Yoshito Watabe was seventh on Friday, the first day of a World Cup Nordic Combined event in Sapporo. The younger of two brothers competing on the World Cup circuit, Watabe was first after the ski jumping at Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium, but was unable to ...
Watabe brothers assigned to Nordic combined individual hill competition
Nordic combined medal hopeful Akito Watabe, his brother Yoshito, Taihei Kato and Hideaki Nagai, will represent Japan in the individual normal hill competition on Wednesday, coach Shuhei Narita said Tuesday. "I feel good," Akito Watabe said at the last practice before the competition, where he ...
Akito Watabe will take his third crack at an Olympic medal when the Nordic combined competition begins at the Sochi Games on Feb. 12. Watabe, who competed for Japan at the 2006 Turin Games and again at Vancouver in 2010, is going in search of ...
