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Noriaki Kasai

Noriaki Kasai
葛西 紀明
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Country  Japan
Full name 葛西 紀明
Born (1972-06-06) 6 June 1972 (age 44)
Shimokawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Height 176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Ski club Tsuchiya Home Ski Team
Personal best 240.5 m (789 ft) National record
Vikersund, 15 Feb 2015
Kulm, 15 Jan 2016
World Cup career
Seasons 19891994
1996–present
Individual wins 17
Team wins 3
Indiv. podiums 61
Team podiums 17
Indiv. starts 516 World Record
Team starts 59 World Record
Nordic titles 1 (1999)
Updated on 22 January 2017.

Noriaki Kasai (葛西 紀明 Kasai Noriaki?, born 6 June 1972) is a Japanese ski jumper. He is a 1992 ski flying world champion, 1999 Nordic Tournament winner and holds many records. In 2016 he was honoured with a Guinness World Records certificate for the most World Cup individual starts not just in ski jumping but in all world cup disciplines run by International Ski Federation.

He currently holds the record of 516 individual starts and has been competing in his 28th season in the World Cup in four different decades: the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. He holds the world record for the longest jump for athletes over 35 and 40 years old with 240.5 meters (789 ft), which he set and then tied in Vikersund in 2015 and in Kulm in 2016. He has the record number of appearances in ski jumping at the olympics, the Nordic world championships and the ski flying world championships. He is the oldest ski jumping Olympic medalist at 41 years and 256 days old, the oldest individual World Cup winner at 42 years and 176 days old, the oldest ski jumper on World Cup individual podium and the oldest World Cup performer ever at 44 years and 230 days old.

Kasai made his World Cup debut on 17 December 1988 in Sapporo, Japan at the age of 16 reaching 31st place. A year later he performed in his first Nordic World Championships in Lahti, Finland.


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