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Mt. Okura Ski Jump Stadium
The , also known as the is a ski jumping venue located in the Miyanomori area in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Owned mostly by Sapporo City, the ski jump is on the eastern slope of the Mt. Okura. The stadium has hosted a number of winter sports events including 1972 Winter Olympics and FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007. The area of stadium consists of the Winter Sports Museum, the Ōkurayama Crystal House, and the Mt. Okura Observation Platform, as well as the ski jump. The stadium has area of 8.2 ha which houses 50,000 people at a maximum during a competition, and the ski jump is categorized as the large hill jump. The total height of the jump hill from the top starting point to the bottom of the slope is 133 metres, also the distance to the K-spot (critical point) is 120 metres. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escalator
An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep the step tread horizontal. Escalators are often used around the world in places where lifts would be impractical, or they can be used in conjunction with them. Principal areas of usage include department stores, shopping malls, airports, transit systems (railway/railroad stations), convention centers, hotels, arenas, stadiums and public buildings. Escalators have the capacity to move large numbers of people. They have no waiting interval (except during very heavy traffic). They can be used to guide people toward main exits or special exhibits and may be weatherproofed for outdoor use. A non-functional escalator can function as a normal staircase, whereas many other methods of transport become useless when they break down or lose power. Design, components ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takanobu Okabe
(born 26 October 1970) is a Japanese former ski jumper. Career His debut World Cup performance was on 16 December 1989 in Sapporo and at the moment he is the oldest ski jumper in a world of ski jumping. 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 five medals. This included a gold in the individual normal hill (1995), a silver in the team large hill (1997), and three bronzes in the team large hill (1995, 2007, 2009). Okabe has five individual World Cup victories, three of which came on flying hills. At the time of his latest win in Kuopio on March 10, 2009 he was, at the age of 38 years and 135 days,http://infostradalive.com/2014/01/11/record-kasai-becomes-oldest-ski-jumper-to-win-wc-meet/ the oldest ski jumper to ever win a World Cup competition. This record has since been beaten by his compat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Roar Ljøkelsøy (born 31 May 1976) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 1993 to 2010, and twice finished runner up in the World Cup. Career He won his first individual World Cup event on 25 January 2003 and was a very consistent competitor in the 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons, finishing runner-up in both. In 2003–04 he won seven out of the last eleven competitions, finishing ten points short of eventual winner Janne Ahonen. In addition to winning eleven individual and three team World Cup events, Ljøkelsøy won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 2004. He then won the individual and team gold medal at the 2004 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica. At the 2005 Ski Jumping World Championships, Ljøkelsøy won a silver medal on the individual large hill and a bronze on the team large hill. In 2006, he retained his Ski Flying World Championship in Kulm, winning with over twenty points to the next competitor, despite feeling ill. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Weißflog
Jens Weißflog (, ; born 21 July 1964) is a German former ski jumper. He is one of the best and most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport. Only Finns Matti Nykänen and Janne Ahonen, Poles Adam Małysz and Kamil Stoch and Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer have won more World Cup victories. Career Weißflog was born in Erlabrunn (now a part of Breitenbrunn, Saxony) in the Erzgebirge range. As a 19-year-old he won the Four Hills Tournament for East Germany in 1983/84. Weißflog was known as "Floh" (flea in German) due to his slight stature and his light body. That same winter he won the combined World Cup and later the normal hill event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. The following winter was dominated by Weißflog and the outstanding Finn Matti Nykänen. The most remarkable part of his career is that he competed at the top level for twelve years. Neither the regime change from East Germany to the unified Germany in late 1990, nor the change in ski jumping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Higashi
(born 7 January 1972) is a Japanese former ski jumper. Career His debut World Cup performance was on 17 December 1988 in Sapporo. He won a silver medal in the team large hill at the 2003 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme and had his individual finish of 10th in the individual large hill at those same championships. Higashi also competed in the FIS Ski Flying World Championships The FIS Ski Flying World Championships is a ski flying event organised by the International Ski Federation and held every two years. The event takes place on hills much larger than ski jumping hills, with the K-point set between and . Unlike or ..., finishing 5th in the 2004 team event and 15th in the 1998 individual event. He also had six individual victories at various hill sizes from 1992 to 2004. World Cup Standings Wins External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Higashi, Akira 1972 births Living people Japanese male ski jumpers Skiers from Hokkaido FIS Nordic World Ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Rathmayr
Werner Rathmayr (born 26 January 1972) is an Austrian former ski jumper. Career He earned six World Cup wins between 1991 and 1992. Rathmayer's best finish at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships was 18th in Harrachov in 1992. Rathmayr did not participate in the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, despite being the World Cup leader. He is the only athlete in the history of Ski Jumping World Cup to do so, and one of only two athletes, who were the World Cup leaders during the Olympic Games, but finished without a single medal at the event (the other one is Jakub Janda, who did that in 2006). During one of the training rounds at the 1993 World Ski Championships, Rathmayr suffered a dangerous fall after which he was never able to come back to his form from 1992 and 1993. His best start after the fall was 7th place in Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primož Ulaga
Primož Ulaga (born 20 July 1962) is a Yugoslav/Slovenian former ski jumper. Career Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a silver medal in the team large hill competition at Calgary in 1988. Ulaga also won a silver medal at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1988 in Oberstdorf. His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth in the individual large hill event at Seefeld Seefeld may refer to: Places * Seefeld in Tirol, a tourist resort in Tyrol, Austria * Seefeld, Bavaria, a town in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany ** Seefeld Castle * Seefeld, Schleswig-Holstein, a municipality in Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Ho ... in 1985. He had nine world cup victories between 1981 and 1988. World Cup Standings Wins External links * (listed as YUG nationality) * 1962 births Living people Slovenian male ski jumpers Yugoslav male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of Yugoslavia Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia Ski jumpers at the 1984 Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Nykänen
Matti Ensio Nykänen (; 17 July 1963 – 4 February 2019) was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991. Widely considered to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time,"Matti Nykänen" . Retrieved 4 March 2017. Boswell, Thomas (24 February 1988) "Another Jump Begets Gold for Nykanen" '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Steiner
Manfred Steiner (born 27 November 1962) is an Austrian former ski jumper Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fina .... World Cup Standings Wins External links * 1962 births Living people People from Kufstein District Ski jumpers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Austrian male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers for Austria Sportspeople from Tyrol (state) 20th-century Austrian people {{Austria-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masahiro Akimoto (ski Jumper)
(born 3 September 1956) is a Japanese former ski jumper. Career He competed from 1980 to 1986. He finished fourth in the individual large hill event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Akimoto's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth in the team large hill events at Seefeld, Austria in 1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a .... He earned a total of four World Cup wins from 1980 to 1985. World Cup Standings Wins External links * Ski jumpers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Japanese male ski jumpers Living people 1956 births Olympic ski jumpers of Japan Sportspeople from Sapporo 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirokazu Yagi
(born 26 December 1959) is a Japanese former ski jumper. Career His best-known finish was a Silver Medal in the Individual Normal Hill at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, (Tied with Manfred Deckert of East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...). World Cup Standings Wins External links * * Japanese male ski jumpers 1959 births Living people Ski jumpers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Hokkaido Olympic ski jumpers for Japan Olympic medalists in ski jumping People from Otaru Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Japan 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
