The oldest in the history of the players on the top step of the podium – Virtual Poland

PAP | added 2014-11-29 (19:30) 32 minutes ago

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Noriaki Kasai, who tie the Simon Ammann won the competition for the World Cup Ski Jumping in Kuusamo, is the oldest cup competition winner. He did it at 42 years, five months and 24 days. It is also the oldest in the history of the podium.
 
 Winners have a total of more than 75 years: 33-year-old Swiss and Japanese 42-year note gained 272.2 points.
 

Kasai was the leader after the first round (145 m), and the sixth Ammann (135.5 m). In the second series of the role is reversed. Excellent jump player born in Grabs, in the canton of St. Gallen, gave him a promotion to first place. Noriaki, who jumped the last, landed at 131.5 m, but tied the score past the judges notes.
 

This is the 76th career podium in the Swiss ski jumper, and 53 for the Japanese. At the highest level became the first 24 times, Kasai – 17.
 

The last time Ammann won the … Friday, also in the Finnish Kuusamo, and the player with the country, “the Rising Sun” on January 11 at the mammoth facility Kulm in Bad Mitterndorf in Austria. He was then 41 years, seven months and five days.
 

At the Olympics in Sochi Kasai, in his seventh appearance won the first Olympic medal in the individual competition (the second of his career, because in Lillehammer in 1994. Was second with the team). In Russia, the large object had to acknowledge the superiority of only Kamil Stoch, who preceded him by 1.3 percentage points.
 

Born in the Olympic year 1972 on the island of Hokkaido Shimokawie jumping adventure began at the age of nine. His first big success was the gold medal at the world championships flights on huge hill in Harrachov in 1992. A few weeks before his debut at the Games in Albertville.
 

Ammann, four-time Olympic champion (two gold in Salt Lake City in 2002 and two in Vancouver in 2010.), Also made the first jump of his career as a nine year old boy, in Wildhaus at the K-25. There noticed his talent and training included. He was the leader of the general classification of the World Cup in the 2009/2010 season, but never reached the triumph in the prestigious Four Hills Tournament. Often emphasizes that it is his dream sports.

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