Takanobu Okabe

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Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Gold	1998 Nagano	Team large hill
Silver	1994 Lillehammer	Team large hill
World Championships
Gold	1995 Thunder Bay	Individual normal hill
Silver	1997 Trondheim	Team large hill
Bronze	1995 Thunder Bay	Team large hill
Bronze	2007 Sapporo	Team large hill

Takanobu Okabe (born October 26, 1970) is a Japanese ski jumper who has competed from 1990.

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 four medals. This included a gold in the individual normal hill (1995), a silver in the team large hill (1997), and two bronzes in the team large hill (1995, 2007).

He also won twice in 1997 in ski flying.

[edit] External links

• FIS Profile

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Olympic Champions in men's ski jumping team large hill

1988 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Matti Nykänen, Tuomo Ylipulli, & Jari Puikkonen
1992 Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Mika Laitinen, Risto Laakkonen, & Toni Nieminen
1994 Germany Hansjörg Jäkle, Christof Duffner, Dieter Thoma, & Jens Weissflog
1998 Japan Takanobu Okabe, Hiroya Saito, Masahiko Harada, & Kazuyoshi Funaki
2002 Germany Sven Hannawald, Stephan Hocke, Michael Uhrmann, & Martin Schmitt
2006 Austria Andreas Widhölzl, Andreas Kofler, Martin Koch, & Thomas Morgenstern

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World champions in ski jumping individual normal hill

1962: Toralf Engan * 1966: Bjørn Wirkola * 1970: Gariy Napalkov * 1974: Hans-Georg Aschenbach * 1978: Matthias Buse * 1982: Armin Kogler * 1985: Jens Weissflog * 1987: Jiří Parma * 1989: Jens Weissflog * 1991: Heinz Kuttin * 1993: Masahiko Harada * 1995: Takanobu Okabe * 1997: Janne Ahonen * 1999: Kazuyoshi Funaki * 2001: Adam Małysz * 2003: Adam Małysz * 2005: Rok Benkovič * 2007: Adam Małysz