Kazuya Yoshioka

Kazuya Yoshioka (Japanese吉冈 和 也, Kazuya Yoshioka; born September 9, 1978 in Otaru, Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese ski jumper. He is employed as Noriaki Kasai at Tsuchiya Holdings and lives in Otaru.

Career

Yoshioka won with the Japanese youth team in 1995 behind Germany and Austria the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Sweden Gaellivare. In the same year he had in his home in Sapporo his first appearance in a World Cup competition. With number 18, he gained his first World Cup points. After he was able to improve this result again two years later with number 14, he became an integral part of the Japanese World Cup team.

In 1998, Yoshioka recorded several top - ten finishes and finished at the Four Hills Tournament ninth overall. This result he could improve in its most successful season in 1998 and finished sixth overall. In the World Cup he was Thirteenth. These good results he could the next few years repeated only rarely. Only in 2001 did he could erspringen two top ten results. In Park City, he celebrated his first and only podium finish. In the victory of Adam Malysz he finished third, which secured him a place in the Japanese team at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001. From the normal hill he could occupy the 19th place and missed with the team in fourth place just a medal.

In the following years, his results were getting worse. In 2002 he was laboriously qualify for the second round just yet, so he is no longer a member of the Japanese World Cup team since 2003. So Yoshioka launched in recent years in the Continental Cup and the FIS Cup.

In the Asian Winter Games 2011 in Almaty, whose jump competitions were held at the newly built jumps of Gorney giant complex, Yoshioka won behind the Kazakhs Yevgeny Ljowkin the silver medal on the normal hill. From the large hill and with the team he was able to secure the title and each won gold.

Achievements

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