Hiroshi Yoshizawa

Hiroshi Yoshizawa (Japanese吉 沢 広 司, Hiroshi Yoshizawa, born May 5, 1931) is a former Japanese skiers who was active in ski jumping and Nordic combined.

Career

Yoshizawa started at the age of 20 years at the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 for his first international tournament as a special Springer. He landed on the normal hill on points with the Frenchman André Monnier on the 36th.

In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1954 in Falun, he reached in the individual competition on the normal hill after jumps of 70 and 72.5 meters the 46th place.

Two years later, Yoshizawa started in the Olympic Winter Games 1956 in Cortina d' Ampezzo. He first came here in two Nordic disciplines. After he arrived in the individual competition on the normal hill rank 13, he started promising in the individual competition of the Nordic combined. After the jump he was on the good fifth place and had thus still medal chances. However, he had during the subsequent 18- km cross-country skiing, give up and could not finish the race.

Yoshizawa won four titles at Japanese Championships.