And then, down a 120-meter ski jump came a man named Kazuyoshi Funaki. Funaki soared into the light wind and came down 142.5 meters later, an Olympic champion. The Japanese star who hails from a ...

Olympic gold medalist Kazuyoshi Funaki rallied up the participants as the event’s special MC. Ryota Takasaka, a 21-year-old track and field athlete and university student, took the title in the ...

With two-time ski jumping gold medalist Kazuyoshi Funaki co-hosting the event, it was the perfect setting for the launch, with sun and 20ºC temperatures not only great for the runners ...

Ski-jumper Kazuyoshi Funaki, a double-gold medal winner at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, has been named captain of the Japanese team for the upcoming Winter Asian Games in Aomori, Japanese sports ...

The International Olympic Committee will award Japanese ski jumper Kazuyoshi Funaki the Olympic Order for his outstanding performance at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, the Japanese ...