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Noriaki Kasai

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Noriaki Kasai is a Japanese ski jumper, born on 6 June 1972, whose career spanned 35 World Cup seasons from 1988-89 to 2025-26. He made his World Cup debut on 17 December 1988 in Sapporo at the age of 16. He won the 1992 Ski Flying World Championships in Harrachov, won the 1999 Nordic Tournament, and took the individual large hill silver and a team bronze at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, becoming the oldest ski jumper to win an Olympic medal. He competed in a record seventh Olympics in 2014 and was honoured with two Guinness World Records certificates in 2016 for the most individual World Cup starts in any World Cup discipline, reaching 579 individual starts. He also became the oldest World Cup winner on 29 November 2014 in Ruka, sharing the win with Simon Ammann.

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Birth Year
1972 1
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1994 Winter Olympics, Competitions
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2010 Winter Olympics, Competitions
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2014 Winter Olympics, Competitions
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2018 Winter Olympics, Competitions
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Ski Jumping, Sports
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Japan

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    is a Japanese ski jumper
  • Competed In: 1994 Winter Olympics, 1994: Olympic team medal
    In 1994, he was a member of the Japanese national team that won a silver medal in the team large hill and finished fifth in the individual large hill at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer
  • Competed In: 2010 Winter Olympics, 1999: Nordic Tournament
    At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished eighth on the large hill and 17th on the normal hill
  • Competed In: 2014 Winter Olympics, 2014: Oldest Olympic medalist
    At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi he competed in a record seventh Olympics and took the silver medal in the large hill individual and the bronze in team large hill
  • Competed In: 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018 Olympics
    Kasai finished 21st in the normal hill event at the 2018 Winter Olympics
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