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Yukio Kasaya

1943 - 2024

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Yukio Kasaya (笠谷 幸生, Kasaya Yukio; August 17, 1943 – April 23, 2024) was a Japanese ski jumper. At the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo he became the first Japanese athlete to win a gold medal and the second Japanese (after Chiharu Igaya) to win any medal at the Winter Olympics. Previously he placed second at the 1970 World Championships and won the first three jumping events at the 1971/72 Four Hills Tournament. He also took part in the 1964, 1968, and 1976 Olympics and served as the Olympic flag bearer for Japan in 1976 and 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yukio Kasaya is the 17th most popular skier (up from 29th in 2019), the 959th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,011th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Yukio Kasaya ranks 17 out of 817. Before him are Birger Ruud, Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Jiří Raška, Marc Girardelli, Sonja Edström, and Gustav Thöni. After him are Noriaki Kasai, Hermann Maier, Hanni Wenzel, Juha Mieto, Bjørn Wirkola, and Karl Schranz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Yukio Kasaya ranks 294. Before him are Gilbert & George, Penny Marshall, Patricia Churchland, Ignacio Ramonet, Ronnie Spector, and Peter Sinfield. After him are William Calley, Leo Kinnunen, Valery Nepomnyashchy, Gianni Russo, Nolan Bushnell, and Hans Heyer. Among people deceased in 2024, Yukio Kasaya ranks 229. Before him are Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Jandira Martini, Alberto Colombo, Józef Szmidt, Frédéric Mitterrand, and Peter Sinfield. After him are William Calley, Mircea Diaconu, Wu Bangguo, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Roland Dumas, and Frans Janssens.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yukio Kasaya ranks 959 out of 6,245. Before him are Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Nakayama Yoshiko (1836), Peter Shirayanagi (1928), Oku Yasukata (1847), Kuniharu Nakamoto (1959), and Haruomi Hosono (1947). After him are Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889), Jien (1155), Keisuke Honda (1986), Akio Toyoda (1956), Noriaki Kasai (1972), and Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934).

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Among SKIERS In Japan

Among skiers born in Japan, Yukio Kasaya ranks 1. After him are Noriaki Kasai (1972), Chiharu Igaya (1931), Kazuyoshi Funaki (1975), Seiji Aochi (1942), Masahiko Harada (1968), Takanobu Okabe (1970), Ryoyu Kobayashi (1996), Hirokazu Yagi (1959), Hiroya Saitō (1970), Sara Takanashi (1996), and Akito Watabe (1988).

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