Hideharu Miyahira

Hideharu Miyahira (Japanese宫 平 秀 治, Miyahira Hideharu; born December 21, 1973 in Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a former Japanese ski jumper.

Career

The greatest sporting successes of his career was able to reach 1999 Miyahira. In the Four Hills Tournament, he was able to achieve as third in the competition in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen his first podium finishes in the World Cup. He finished the tour as third overall. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 in Ramsau he won when jumping from the normal hill behind his compatriot Kazuyoshi Funaki the silver medal. In the team competition on the large hill he could also win the silver medal with the Japanese team behind Germany. From the large hill he won the bronze medal behind Martin Schmitt and Sven Hanna forest. At the season finale in Slovenia Planica he celebrated his first and only World Cup victory. This success secured him third place in the overall standings of the ski flying World Cup. He finished the season with a fifth place in the overall World Cup.

In the summer of 2000 Miyahira won the competition of the Ski Jumping Grand Prix in Courchevel - and Sapporo and finished the Summer Grand Prix in third place overall. In the World Cup 2000 and 2001 seasons, he has had some top ten rankings. But in 2003 he was with three podium finishes, including on 9 February with second place in Willingen, draw attention to themselves again. On February 8, he also finished sixth in Willingen, for his second jump he was doing five times the grade 20 - a rating that have so far received only five jumpers. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme, he won with the Japanese team the silver medal on the large hill. When jumping on the normal hill he just missed a medal, finishing 0.5 points behind his teammate Noriaki Kasai fourth place. From the large hill he reached the fifth place.

Miyahira belonged to the lightweight ski jumpers. As the BMI rule was introduced in ski jumping in the spring of 2004, stating that Springer including their sports equipment with a BMI of less than 20 must start with shorter skis, Miyahira lost connection to the world's best. Although he was still in the summer of 2004 in Innsbruck at the Ski Jumping Grand Prix show in 2004 third place and with the Japanese team in Hinterzarten second place, but in the subsequent World Cup season in 2005, he qualified often only laboriously of the second passage top 30 jumpers. In the 2006 season, he started only at a World Cup competition. In Sapporo, he finished 16th place. On 5 March 2006, he played with the FIS Cup in Sapporo his last international competition.

Since the season 2010/11 Miyahira is active in the coach of the Japanese national team.

Achievements

World Cup wins

World Cup rankings

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