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Yukio Kasaya

1943 - 2024

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Yukio Kasaya (笠谷 幸生, Kasaya Yukio, August 17, 1943 – April 23, 2024) was a Japanese ski jumper. At the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo he became the first Japanese athlete to win a gold medal and the second Japanese (after Chiharu Igaya) to win any medal at the Winter Olympics. Previously he placed second at the 1970 World Championships and won the first three jumping events at the 1971/72 Four Hills Tournament. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yukio Kasaya has received more than 34,443 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Yukio Kasaya is the 29th most popular skier (up from 34th in 2019), the 1,011th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,028th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Skier.

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  • 57.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Yukio Kasaya ranks 29 out of 817. Before him are Laila Schou Nilsen, Marc Girardelli, Torbjørn Falkanger, Erik Schinegger, Andreas Wenzel, and Juha Mieto. After him are Hanni Wenzel, Rosi Mittermaier, Karl Schranz, Gunnar Eriksson, Sonja Edström, and Kjetil André Aamodt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Yukio Kasaya ranks 339. Before him are Emile Ardolino, Reinhard Libuda, Johnny Hansen, Juhani Suutarinen, Giuseppe Versaldi, and Hans Heyer. After him are Shannon Lucid, Patrick D'Rozario, Gigi Meroni, Jeffrey Tate, David Geffen, and Éva Marton. Among people deceased in 2024, Yukio Kasaya ranks 230. Before him are Roland Dumas, Stefan Abadzhiev, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, John Bruton, Muhammed Faris, and Paul Alexander. After him are Damo Suzuki, Jorge Griffa, Edna O'Brien, Mihaela Peneș, Helen Fisher, and Michael Verhoeven.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yukio Kasaya ranks 1,011 out of 6,245. Before him are Chica Umino (null), Hiroji Imamura (1949), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Akira Kamiya (1946), Michitsuna's mother (935), and Yasuhiro Yamashita (1957). After him are Kunio Yanagita (1875), Nobuo Kawakami (1947), Toshio Furukawa (1946), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), and Katsukawa Shunshō (1726).

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Among SKIERS In Japan

Among skiers born in Japan, Yukio Kasaya ranks 2. Before him are Noriaki Kasai (1972). After him are Chiharu Igaya (1931), Kazuyoshi Funaki (1975), Masahiko Harada (1968), Seiji Aochi (1942), Takanobu Okabe (1970), Ryoyu Kobayashi (1996), Akito Watabe (1988), Hirokazu Yagi (1959), Hiroya Saitō (1970), and Taku Takeuchi (1987).

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