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| Full name | Noriaki Kasai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 June 1972 Shimokawa, Hokkaido Japan |
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| Height | 1,76 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Tsuchiya Home Ski Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skis | Fischer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 224 m (Planica 2010) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 1990-94, 1996- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Additional podiums | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total podiums | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Noriaki "Kamikaze" Kasai (葛西 紀明 Kasai Noriaki), born June 6, 1972 in Shimokawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, is a Japanese ski jumper.
Kasai holds a record for most performances in World Cup. To a date of March 23, 2011 he performed record 435 times in World Cup (396 individual & 39 team performances). He also holds a record for most seasons (22) with debut World Cup performance on December 3, 1989 in Thunder Bay.
He won his first major championship at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1992 in Harrachov, Czechoslovakia. At that time he was among the world's top jumpers, known for his extraordinary style, holding his body between his skis. In 1994, he was in the Japan team that won a silver medal in the team large hill at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he has a total of six medals in his collection. This includes two silvers (Team large hill: 1999, 2003) and four bronzes (Individual normal hill: 2003, Individual large hill: 2003, and Team large hill: 2007, 2009).
Kasai also won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1999.
Kasai has competed in six Olympics during his career - a record for a ski jumper - and earned his best individual finish of 5th in the individual large hill at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. In the 2010 Winter Olympics, at age thirty eight, he finished 8th on the large hill, having won the qualification with the second best jump overall,[1] and 17th on the normal hill.
He has fifteen additional individual victories at various jumping levels from 1993 to 2004.
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| Season | Date | Location |
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| 1991-92 | March 22, 1992 | Harrachov* (SF) |
| 1992-93 | January 1, 1993 | Ga-Pa |
| January 23, 1993 | Predazzo | |
| March 6, 1993 | Lahti | |
| 1993-94 | January 9, 1994 | Murau |
| 1997-98 | March 22, 1998 | Planica |
| 1998-99 | January 3, 1999 | Innsbruck |
| January 29, 1999 | Willingen | |
| January 31, 1999 | Willingen | |
| March 9, 1999 | Trondheim | |
| March 14, 1999 | Oslo | |
| March 21, 1999 | Planica (SF) | |
| 2000-01 | January 1, 2001 | Ga-Pa |
| January 21, 2001 | Park City | |
| 2002-03 | February 9, 2003 | Willingen |
| 2003-04 | February 28, 2004 | Park City |
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