Norihito Kobayashi
Norihito Kobayashi (Japanese小林 范 仁, Norihito Kobayashi; born May 4, 1982 in Akita ) is a Japanese nordic combined.
Norihito Kobayashi operates his sport since 1995. He is a student and lives in Sapporo. He starts team for the Tokyo Biso ski. Kobayashi made his debut in the World Cup in February 2000 as 21 at a competition in the Gundersen method in his hometown of Sapporo. At the Junior World Championship in Karpacz 2001 he won the competition in the Gundersen method, and was third in the sprint. In Lahti, he was then employed at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 in the sprint, which he finished in 33rd place. The Junior World Championships in Schonach 2002 was less successful. Things went better for the Japanese in the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. In Soldier Hollow, he was the 17th of the sprints. After the games, Kobayashi launched by end of 2005 almost exclusively in B- World Cup. The Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme did not yield any results. In the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec 2009 he succeeded his biggest success when he was able to prevail as the final runner in the 4x5 - km relay in a photo finish against the German Tino Edelmann and thus led the Japanese combiner team to gold.
His international breakthrough had Norihito Kobayashi before the 2006 Olympics in Turin. In Harrachov he came in fourth in the sprint for the first time in the top ten, in Gundersen competition, he was named ninth. At the Olympics he reached shortly thereafter in Pragelato ranked 16th in the Gundersen competition and finished 18th in the sprint. With the season he finished sixth. In more than 70 World Cup starts Kobayashi came so far nine times in the top ten.
At the Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver Kobayashi reached 7th in the normal hill Gundersen.