Noriaki Kasai

Noriaki Kasai
Noriaki Kasai
Personal information
Full name Noriaki Kasai
Born 6 June 1972 (1972-06-06) (age 39)
Shimokawa, Hokkaido
Japan Japan
Height 1,76 m
Professional information
Club Tsuchiya Home Ski Team
Skis Fischer
Personal best 224 m (Planica 2010)
World Cup
Seasons 1990-94, 1996-
Wins 15
Additional podiums 29
Total podiums 44
Updated on October 7, 2011.

Noriaki "Kamikaze" Kasai (葛西 紀明 Kasai Noriaki?), born June 6, 1972 in Shimokawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, is a Japanese ski jumper.

Kasai holds a record for most performances in World Cup. To a date of March 23, 2011 he performed record 435 times in World Cup (396 individual & 39 team performances). He also holds a record for most seasons (22) with debut World Cup performance on December 3, 1989 in Thunder Bay.

He won his first major championship at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1992 in Harrachov, Czechoslovakia. At that time he was among the world's top jumpers, known for his extraordinary style, holding his body between his skis. In 1994, he was in the Japan team that won a silver medal in the team large hill at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he has a total of six medals in his collection. This includes two silvers (Team large hill: 1999, 2003) and four bronzes (Individual normal hill: 2003, Individual large hill: 2003, and Team large hill: 2007, 2009).

Kasai also won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1999.

Kasai has competed in six Olympics during his career - a record for a ski jumper - and earned his best individual finish of 5th in the individual large hill at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. In the 2010 Winter Olympics, at age thirty eight, he finished 8th on the large hill, having won the qualification with the second best jump overall,[1] and 17th on the normal hill.

He has fifteen additional individual victories at various jumping levels from 1993 to 2004.

Contents

World Cup

Victories

Season Date Location
1991-92 March 22, 1992 Czechoslovakia Harrachov* (SF)
1992-93 January 1, 1993 Germany Ga-Pa
January 23, 1993 Italy Predazzo
March 6, 1993 Finland Lahti
1993-94 January 9, 1994 Austria Murau
1997-98 March 22, 1998 Slovenia Planica
1998-99 January 3, 1999 Austria Innsbruck
January 29, 1999 Germany Willingen
January 31, 1999 Germany Willingen
March 9, 1999 Norway Trondheim
March 14, 1999 Norway Oslo
March 21, 1999 Slovenia Planica (SF)
2000-01 January 1, 2001 Germany Ga-Pa
January 21, 2001 United States Park City
2002-03 February 9, 2003 Germany Willingen
2003-04 Febraury 28, 2004 United States Park City
  • 1992 Harracov victory count both as Ski Flying World Championship title as well as World Cup victory; (SF - Ski Flying)

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References


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