The men's ski jumping World Cup was held in Finland, and 51-year-old Noriaki Kasai passed the qualifying rounds and participated in the World Cup overseas for the first time in four seasons.
With this, he has updated his record for most World Cup appearances to 572.
The 24th individual competition of the Men's Ski Jumping World Cup was held on the 130m large hill in Lahti, Finland, on the 1st.
Kasai was selected to replace Naoki Nakamura, who withdrew from the World Cup trip due to back pain, and participated on the Japan national team this season along with Ryosuke Kobayashi, who is in second place in the individual overall rankings.
In the preliminaries, which were contested by 59 people, he marked 112 meters and placed 41st out of the 50 people who qualified, making him the first to compete in the World Cup overseas for the first time in four seasons since the tournament in Germany in December 2019. .
Although Kasai did not advance to the second round, where the top 30 players competed with a score of 117.50 meters, he finished 38th, but he updated his record for most World Cup appearances with 572.
On the other hand, Kobayashi jumped 127 meters in the first attempt, placing him in 8th place, and in his second attempt, he showed a huge jump of 131 meters, exceeding the hill size, earning a total of 254.9 points, moving up five places to take 3rd place. I did.