Takanobu Okabe

Takanobu Okabe 岡部 孝信
Country	Japan
Full name	岡部 孝信
Born	(1970-10-26) 26 October 1970 (age 46) Shimokawa, Japan
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in)
Personal best	217.5 m (714 ft) Planica, 17 March 2006
World Cup career
Seasons	1990-1991 1993-2003 2005-2010 2012-2014
Individual wins	5
Team wins	2
Indiv. podiums	23
Team podiums	6
Yellow bibs	1
Indiv. starts	215
Team starts	15
Medal record Men's ski jumping Olympic Games 1998 Nagano Team LH 1994 Lillehammer Team LH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 Thunder Bay Individual NH 1997 Trondheim Team LH 1995 Thunder Bay Team LH 2007 Sapporo Team LH 2009 Liberec Team LH
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Takanobu Okabe (岡部 孝信, Okabe Takanobu^?) (born 26 October 1970) is a Japanese former ski jumper.

His debut World Cup performance was on 16 December 1989 in Sapporo and at the moment he is the oldest ski jumper in a world of ski jumping. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the team large hill event at the Winter Olympics with a silver in 1994 and a gold in 1998.

Okabe had his biggest successes at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, winning five medals. This included a gold in the individual normal hill (1995), a silver in the team large hill (1997), and three bronzes in the team large hill (1995, 2007, 2009).

Okabe has five individual World Cup victories, three of which came on flying hills. At the time of his latest win in Kuopio on March 10, 2009 he was, at the age of 38 years and 135 days, the oldest ski jumper to ever win a World Cup competition. This record has since been beaten by his compatriot Noriaki Kasai.

On 12 March 2014, the International Ski Federation announced his retirement.

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