Noriaki Kasai

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Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Silver	1994 Lillehammer	Team large hill
World Championships
Silver	1999 Ramsau	Team large hill
Silver	2003 Val di Fiemme	Team large hill
Bronze	2003 Val di Fiemme	Individual normal hill
Bronze	2003 Val di Fiemme	Individual large hill
Men's ski jumping
World Championships
Gold	1992 Harrachov	Ski-flying hill

Noriaki Kasai (born June 6, 1972 in Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese ski jumper. He won his first major championships in 1992 when he won the Ski-flying World Championships in Harrachov, Czechoslovakia that year. In 1994, he followed that up by tacking a silver medal in the team K120 at the Lillehammer olympics. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he won a total of four medals in his collection. This includes two silver medals in the team large hill event (1999, 2003) and two bronze medals in 2003 (Individual normal hill and individual large hill).

Kasai also won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1999.

Kasai competed in five Olympics during his career, earning his best individual finish of 5th in the individual large hill at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. He has fifteen additional individual victories at various jumping levels from 1993 to 2004.