Sapporo host their 63rd and 64th individual World
Cup event. This venue has been visited ever since
the first World Cup in 1979/80. Hirokazu Yagi (JPN)
won the first event, on 12 January 1980.
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Last year, Jan Matura (CZE) claimed both victories
at Sapporo. A year earlier, both events were also
won by one jumper – Daiki Ito (JPN).
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Matti Nyka"nen (FIN) collected the most individual
WC wins at Sapporo – six. Nyka"nen (G6-S1-B1),
Roar Lj?kels?y (NOR, G5-S2-B1) and Thomas Morgenstern
(AUT, G3-S3-B2) the most medals – eight.
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Local hero Noriaki Kasai (JPN) became the oldest
individual World Cup event winner at 41 years and
213 days, at Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf on 11 January
2014.
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Kasai still looks for his first victory at Sapporo.
He claimed two silvers (2004, 2010) and a bronze
(2002).
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67 athletes are participating this weekend.
Many different World Cup event winners this season
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At Zakopane last Sunday, Anders Bardal (NOR) became
the 13th different individual World Cup event winner
of the season, surpassing the 12 total winners of
last season.
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Only in 1979/80 (16, record) and 2002/03 (14) there
have been more different individual winners (in
1986/87 also 13).
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There have been individual World Cup event winners
from eight countries this season, the most since
1986/87 (also 8).
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The individual World Cup season record of countries
winning one or more events is nine (1983/84). The
1979/80 season also saw eight.
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No jumper has won more than two individual events
this season. In all 33 previous World Cup seasons,
there has been at least one jumper with 3+ wins.
Thomas Diethart (AUT), Kamil Stoch (POL) and Gregor
Schlierenzauer (AUT) are the only ones with two
at the moment.
International top-7 in World Cup standings
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The first seven jumpers in the overall World Cup
standings have different nationalities: Stoch (POL),
Schlierenzauer (AUT), Prevc (SLO), Ammann (SUI),
Bardal (NOR), Kasai (JPN) and Wellinger (GER).
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Kamil Stoch (721 points) holds a 51-point lead in
the World Cup over Gregor Schlierenzauer (670).
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Stoch can become the second Polish overall World
Cup winner, after Adam Malysz, who won it a record-equalling
four times (2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2006/07).