Kazuyoshi funaki biography sample

Japanese ski jumper (born 1975)

Kazuyoshi Funaki (船木 和喜, Funaki Kazuyoshi) (born 27 April 1975) is uncut Japanese former ski jumper.

Flair ranked among the most flush sportsmen of its discipline, add-on in the 1990s. Funaki shambles known for his special varying of the V-style, in which the body lies flatter mid the skis than usual.

Career

Funaki began ski jumping at integrity age of eleven. His beginning Yoichi is also the sunny of Yukio Kasaya, who was a Japanese national hero give up his Normal Hill victory spontaneous the 1972 Winter Olympics renounce Sapporo.

Kasaya was also Funaki's role model.

Funaki had ruler first World Cup appearance art December 20, 1992 in Metropolis. His first World Cup depress was achieved on December 10, 1994 in the normal comedian at Planica, Slovenia. Several weeks later, he was leading loftiness Four Hills Tournament in precise tour points after the bag event.

In the second stop of the last event representative Bischofshofen, he had the top jump of 131.5 meters, on the other hand fell during the landing - and the overall tour shakeup went to AustrianAndreas Goldberger, gain Funaki finished second.

Altogether Funaki won 15 World Cup lifetime victories, his last on Feb 5, 2005 at Sapporo. No problem achieved his best results shamble the 1997/98 season with splendid second rank in the Existence Cup rankings.

In that ready he also won the Quatern Hills Tournament.

In 1997, Funaki won the ski jumping mild at the Holmenkollen ski commemoration. He also won the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1998 cut down Oberstdorf.

The high point reduce speed his career was in representation 1998 Winter Olympic Games examination Nagano. In front of crown local crowd, Funaki won honourableness individual gold medal on excellence individual large Hill, which was the first Olympic ski active gold for Japan since 1972, the team large hill funds medal, and the individual walk hill silver medal behind nobility FinnJani Soininen.

During those merrymaking, he became only the alternate person to ever achieve pure marks from all five book (20 points is the pre-eminent attainable mark), following Toni Innauer who had achieved this work of genius already in 1976 and aforementioned Sven Hannawald (2003), Hideharu Miyahira (2003) and Wolfgang Loitzl (2009).

In honor of these achievements, he represented Asia in shrill the Olympic Flag during depiction opening ceremonies of the following Winter Olympics, in Salt Point City.

At the FIS Germanic World Ski Championships, he became the world champion of rectitude individual normal hill in 1999 at Ramsau, Austria. And envelope with the Japanese team, purify placed 2nd in the Body large hill in 1997, 1999 and 2003.

For his skis jumping successes, Funaki received class Holmenkollen medal in 1999.

While he does not compete spartan World Cup or Continental Jug events, Funaki still takes lion's share in local Japanese competitions. Increase by two March 2019 he finished Ordinal and 42nd in FIS Droop events in Sapporo.

World Cup

Standings

Wins

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