The ski jumping World Cup opened in Poland, and the women's ace, Sara Takanashi, ranked 6th, the highest among Japanese athletes, and the men's ace, Ryoyu Kobayashi, ranked 7th, the highest among Japanese athletes.

The jump women's World Cup held its first individual match on the 5th in Poland on a large hill with a hill size of 134 meters.



Due to the earliest schedule so far, it was held without snow, and four Japanese players participated, including Takanashi, who is aiming for the overall victory for the first time in six seasons, and Yuki Ito, who finished 8th overall last season.



Of these, Takanashi, who has 63 World Cup wins, the most among men and women, flew 121 meters over the K point in the first time and was in 3rd place, 4.2 points behind the top.



In the second race, he hit 122 meters in the rain, but was unable to improve his ranking, and was 6th in the first race of the season with a total of 233.1 points.



Other Japanese competitors included Ito in 13th, Yuka Seto in 17th, and World Cup debutant Rinko Miyajima in 28th.



The victory was Norwegian Sirie Opsett's second World Cup victory.

Ryoyu Kobayashi is the top Japanese player in 7th place

The jumping men's World Cup held its first individual match on the 5th in Poland on a large hill with a hill size of 134 meters.



The Japanese players are Kobayashi, who won two medals at the Beijing Olympics this year and is aiming for his third overall victory in the World Cup for the second consecutive season this season, and Nikaido, who was selected for the World Cup for the first time this season. 6 people including lotus player participated.



Among them, Kobayashi, who has won the most wins among Japanese men with 27 wins in total, was 22nd in the first time, unable to increase the flight distance to 119 meters in difficult conditions with rapidly changing wind directions.



In the second round, in an advantageous headwind, I increased the flight distance to 128m 50, and the total points were 240.5, which greatly improved my ranking and finished 7th in the first match.



Other Japanese


players include Junshiro Kobayashi, the older brother of Kobayashi, 19th,


Nikaido 28th ,


Naomi Nakamura 30th


, Yukiya Sato and Keiichi Sato, who are the top 30 for the second time. I couldn't proceed.



The winner was Polish veteran David Kuwazki.