Takanobu Okabe

Takanobu Okabe is a Japanese former ski jumper, born on 26 October 1970, whose World Cup debut was on 16 December 1989 in Sapporo. He competed at three Winter Olympics and won two medals in the team large hill event, a silver in 1994 and a gold in 1998. His biggest successes came at the Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won five medals: gold in the individual normal hill in 1995, silver in the team large hill in 1997, and bronzes in the team large hill in 1995, 2007 and 2009. He has five individual World Cup victories, three on flying hills, and his last, in Kuopio on 10 March 2009, made him at 38 years the oldest ski jumper to win a World Cup competition at that time. He retired in March 2014.