Kazuyoshi Funaki

Kazuyoshi Funaki 船木 和喜
Four Hills titles		1 (1998)
Nordic titles	1 (1997)
Medal record Men's ski jumping Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 1 0 World Championships 1 3 0 Ski Flying World Championships 1 0 0 Total 2 5 0 Olympic Games 1998 Nagano Individual LH 1998 Nagano Team LH 1998 Nagano Individual NH World Championships 1999 Ramsau Individual NH 1997 Trondheim Team LH 1999 Ramsau Team LH 2003 Val di Fiemme Team LH Men's ski flying World Championships 1998 Oberstdorf Individual
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Kazuyoshi Funaki (船木 和喜, Funaki Kazuyoshi) (born 27 April 1975) is a Japanese former

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Career

Funaki began ski jumping at the age of eleven. His birthplace Yoichi is also the home of

. Kasaya was also Funaki's role model.

Funaki had his first World Cup appearance on December 20, 1992 in Sapporo. His first World Cup victory was achieved on December 10, 1994 in the normal hill at Planica, Slovenia. Several weeks later, he was leading the Four Hills Tournament in total tour points after the third event. In the second part of the last event at Bischofshofen, he had the longest jump of 131.5 meters, but fell during the landing - and the overall tour victory went to Austrian Andreas Goldberger, and Funaki finished second.

Altogether Funaki won 15 World Cup career victories, his last on February 5, 2005 at Sapporo. He achieved his best results in the 1997/98 season with a second rank in the World Cup rankings. In that season he also won the Four Hills Tournament.

In 1997, Funaki won the ski jumping event at the

.

The high point of his career was in the

Salt Lake City

.

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he became the world champion of the individual normal hill in 1999 at Ramsau, Austria. And together with the Japanese team, he placed 2nd in the Team large hill in 1997, 1999 and 2003.

For his ski jumping successes, Funaki received the

in 1999.

While he does not compete in World Cup or Continental Cup events, Funaki still takes part in local Japanese competitions. In March 2019 he finished 10th and 42nd in FIS Race events in Sapporo.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF	NT	JP
1992/93	—	—	—	N/A	N/A
1994/95	4		7	N/A	N/A
1995/96	33	28	19	N/A	39
1996/97		10			4
1997/98				8	4
1998/99	4	5	4
1999/00	14	13	9	14	13
2000/01	30	46	40	—	N/A
2001/02	11	25	N/A	9	N/A
2002/03	30	33	N/A	34	N/A
2003/04	40	44	N/A	39	N/A
2004/05	30	52	N/A	57	N/A
2008/09	63	—	—	—	N/A
2009/10	—	—	—	—	N/A
2010/11	58	—	—	N/A	N/A
2011/12	—	—	—	N/A	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	1994/95	10 December 1994	Planica	Srednja Bloudkova K90	NH
2		4 January 1995	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze K110	LH
3	1996/97	14 December 1996	Harrachov	Čerťák K120	LH
4		4 January 1997	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze K110	LH
5		12 March 1997	Kuopio	Puijo K95 (night)	NH
6		14 March 1997	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken K112	LH
7	1997/98	29 December 1997	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze K115	LH
8		1 January 1998	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Große Olympiaschanze K115	LH
9		4 January 1998	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze K110	LH
10		25 January 1998	Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze K185	FH
11		21 March 1998	Planica	Bloudkova velikanka K120	LH
12	1998/99	10 January 1999	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120	LH
13		24 January 1999	Sapporo	Ōkurayama K120	LH
14		6 March 1999	Lahti	Salpausselkä K90 (night)	NH
15	2004/05	5 February 2005	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS134 (night)	LH

See also

• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games

References

• Kazuyoshi Funaki at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file at the Wayback Machine (archived February 24, 2007) (in Norwegian)
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file at the Wayback Machine (archived February 24, 2007) (in Norwegian)

External links

• Kazuyoshi Funaki at Olympics.com
• Kazuyoshi Funaki at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)