Ryōyū Kobayashi

Ryoyu Kobayashi is a Japanese ski jumper, born on 8 November 1996 in Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture. He has won 37 individual World Cup competitions, the World Cup overall title twice and the Four Hills Tournament three times, and is an individual Olympic gold medallist. In the 2018-19 season he won 13 individual events and all six available titles, including the World Cup overall, the Ski Flying World Cup, the Four Hills Tournament, the Raw Air tournament, the Planica7 tournament and the Willingen Five tournament. He is the third ski jumper to win all four events of the Four Hills Tournament. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing he won the normal hill gold and the large hill silver. His jump of 252 metres is the Japanese record, and in an unofficial event in Iceland in April 2024 he reached 291 metres. His brothers and sister also jump.