Yukiya SATO

Japan

Ski Jumping

Date of Birth: 19 Jun 1995

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Place of birth: ISHIKARI

Birth Country:

Japan

Residence: SAPPORO

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank
Ski Jumping	Men's Normal Hill Individual	32
	Men's Large Hill Individual	15
	Men's Team JPN Japan	5
	Mixed Team JPN Japan	4

Schedule

Location	Event	Status
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Normal Hill Individual Trial Round for Qualification	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Normal Hill Individual Qualification Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Normal Hill Individual Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Normal Hill Individual 1st Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Mixed Team Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Mixed Team 1st Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Mixed Team Final Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual Trial Round for Qualification	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual Qualification Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual 1st Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual Final Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Team Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Team 1st Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Team Final Round	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Youth Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	Medium Hill, Individual	2012	Innsbruck, AUT	260.1
5	Medium Hill, Team	2012	Innsbruck, AUT	576.0

World Championship
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	Large Hill Team	2019	Seefeld, AUT	920.2
4	Large Hill Team	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	1017.5
5	Normal Hill Team	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	940.3
5	Normal Hill Team	2019	Seefeld, AUT	928.6
7	Large Hill	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	256.7
7	Normal Hill	2019	Seefeld, AUT	210.5
16	Normal Hill	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	244.3
21	Large Hill	2019	Seefeld, AUT	221.4

Four Hill Tournament
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
4	Large Hill	2022	Bischofshofen, AUT	281.1
5	Large Hill	2021	Innsbruck, AUT	245.6
6	Large Hill	2022	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	267.9
6	Large Hill	2019	Innsbruck, AUT	231.4
7	Large Hill	2020	Oberstdorf, GER	280.1
9	Large Hill	2021	Bischofshofen, AUT	270.5
10	Large Hill	2022	Bischofshofen, AUT	262.9
12	Large Hill	2020	Bischofshofen, AUT	271.3
15	Large Hill	2019	Oberstdorf, GER	255.0
16	Large Hill	2022	Oberstdorf, GER	252.8
17	Large Hill	2019	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	236.3
18	Large Hill	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	260.7
23	Large Hill	2019	Bischofshofen, AUT	224.7
27	Large Hill	2020	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	247.2
30	Large Hill	2021	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	211.9
46	Large Hill	2020	Innsbruck, AUT	92.7

World Cup Rankings Overview
Season	Overall
2021/2022	14
2020/2021	11
2019/2020	13
2018/2019	23

Best Performance per Season in World Cup Events from 2018/2019
Season	Normal Hill	Large Hill	Flying Hill	Normal Hill Team	Large Hill Team	Flying Hill Team
2021/2022		1 x 5th			1 x 2nd
2020/2021	1 x 33rd	1 x 4th	2 x 6th	1 x 4th	3 x 5th	1 x 2nd
2019/2020	1 x 10th	2 x 1st	1 x 27th		1 x 3rd
2018/2019		1 x 3rd	1 x 10th		1 x 2nd	1 x 4th

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location	Result
2	Large Hill Team	2021/2022	Bischofshofen, AUT	1006.4
3	Large Hill Team	2021/2022	Zakopane, POL	1034.1
5	Large Hill Team	2021/2022	Willingen, GER	724.0
5	Large Hill	2021/2022	Willingen, GER	103.0
5	Large Hill Team	2021/2022	Wisla, POL	787.3
9	Large Hill	2021/2022	Bischofshofen, AUT	271.1
10	Large Hill	2021/2022	Nizhny Tagil, RUS	213.4
10	Large Hill	2021/2022	Four Hills Tournament, FIS	1064.7
10	Large Hill	2021/2022	Ruka, FIN	265.0
13	Large Hill	2021/2022	Titisee-Neustadt, GER	255.2

Hobbies:

Philosophy (Athlete, Sep 2021)

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

Nihon High school in Sapporo, part of Nihon University. (meg-snow.com)

Languages spoken:

Japanese

Club name:

Megmilk Snow Brand Ski Team

Coach:

Team: Hideharu Miyahira (JPN)
Personal: Takaobu Okabe (JPN)
Ski: Slatner

Debut:

2010 Continental Cup in Kranj (Normal hill - 54th)
2015 World Cup in Sapporo (Large hill - 39th)

National team:

2010

Ambition:

Season 2021/22 goals: Top-10 World Cup ranking.
Career goal: Overall World Cup victory. (Athlete, Sep 2021)

Training:

Core training and running (Athlete, Sep 2021)

Memorable:

His first ever jump at a ski flying hill. (Athlete, Sep 2021)

Hero:

Football player Keisuke Honda (JPN) former Japanese team player, scored 37 team goals, currently playing for Baku (AZE) and also head-coach for Cambodia. His best years were 2014-17, playing for AC Milan.

Influence:

Football player Cristiano Ronaldo (POR), voted world's best soccer player twice (2016, 2017), five-time winner of the Champions League, one-time winner of the UEFA European Cup (2016), currently playing for Manchester United.

General Interest

COACH
Japanese coach Hideharu Miyahira (JPN) is one of only seven ski jumpers who received 20 points, the highest mark from all five judges, which is considered the “perfect jump.” Miyahira had his perfect jump on 8 Feb 2003 in Willingen, but he did not win the competition, he finished sixth. Made his one and only Olympic Winter Games appearance at Salt Lake City 2002 where he was a member of the fifth-placed team, and individually was 24th in the large hill.

NO RELATION
Not related to Japanese ski jumper Keiichi Sato.

Milestones

OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Individual bronze medal in the Innsbruck 2012 Youth Olympic Winter Games.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
A member of the bronze medal-winning team in 2019 and with five top-seven results at two World Championships (2019, 2021), and no podium finishes.

Has two top-six results in Ski Flying Championships 2020.

Competed at three Junior World Championships (2012, 2013, 2015) with four top-10 results, the best of which is a fourth place in 2015.

WORLD CUP
In four seasons in the World Cup, he finished fourth or fifth 15 times with the team and six times in individual events. Nine times he made it to the podium (six team, three individual). First individual World Cup win in Nizhny Tagil in December 2019, coming from behind in the large hill event in earning 251.6 points to finish 1.5 ahead of Germany’s Karl Geiger. His second career individual World Cup came in his hometown of Sapporo in 2020 when he landed a strong second jump at Okurayama Hill having been sixth after the first round of jumps, and landed a 138.5m second jump that earned him 127.3 points for a total of 244.3.

SEASON 2021/22
Competed in the last two legs of the Summer Grand Prix and won the normal hill event in Hinzenbach. Finished overall 15th with only two participations.
In winter he finished top-10 seven times, his best result a fourth place in Bischofshofen (large hill).
In the four team competitions of the season (one of them was mixed team), he finished fifth two times, on the podium two times, third place in Zakopane and second in Bischofshofen.
Currently ranked 14th in the overall World Cup.

OTHER
Two-time Asian Winter Games champion in 2017 (normal hill, team).

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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