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Masahiko Harada

1968 - Today

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Masahiko Harada (原田 雅彦, Harada Masahiko) (born 9 May 1968) is a Japanese former ski jumper. He is best remembered for a meltdown at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, which cost the Japanese national team a victory, and his subsequent redemption at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano; the latter of which led to him being affectionately called "Happy Harada". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Masahiko Harada is the 199th most popular skier (down from 168th in 2024), the 1,933rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,615th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Masahiko Harada ranks 199 out of 817. Before him are Stein Eriksen, Perrine Pelen, Inger Helene Nybråten, Giorgio Di Centa, Andreas Felder, and Marco Albarello. After him are Michèle Jacot, Paul Frommelt, Petra Majdič, Yelena Vyalbe, Rok Petrovič, and Lise-Marie Morerod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Masahiko Harada ranks 411. Before him are Oleh Luzhny, Nadia Farès, Francois Botha, Clovis Cornillac, Wu'erkaixi, and Adílson Batista. After him are Uwe Rösler, Jorge Salinas, Tsuyoshi Kitazawa, Tomas Svensson, Tsunku, and Patricia Tarabini.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masahiko Harada ranks 1,933 out of 6,245. Before him are Takehiro Kato (1974), Christopher Zeeman (1925), Hidehiko Yoshida (1969), Hirohito Nakamura (1974), Takashi Sambonsuge (1978), and Brian Tee (1977). After him are Hiromi Uehara (1979), Shiro Hashizume (1928), Yuji Oe (1986), Hiroyuki Morita (1964), Seigo Narazaki (1976), and Jun Fukuyama (1978).

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Among SKIERS In Japan

Among skiers born in Japan, Masahiko Harada ranks 6. Before him are Yukio Kasaya (1943), Noriaki Kasai (1972), Chiharu Igaya (1931), Kazuyoshi Funaki (1975), and Seiji Aochi (1942). After him are Takanobu Okabe (1970), Ryoyu Kobayashi (1996), Hirokazu Yagi (1959), Hiroya Saitō (1970), Sara Takanashi (1996), and Hideharu Miyahira (1973).

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