Ryōyū Kobayashi

He was born on 8 November 1996 in Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. He began skiing at the age of five but began ski jumping in the first grade, inspired by his older brother and Japanese ski jumper Junshiro Kobayashi. In 2015, he joined Japanese ski jumping team Tsuchiya Home Ski Team. He has two older siblings, Junshirō and Yūka, and a younger brother, Tatsunao; all of them are also ski jumpers. He attended Morioka Central High School, graduating in 2015. ==Career==

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Kobayashi competed in the men's normal hill, placing 7th, as well as the men's large hill, placing 10th. He also competed in the team event with teammates Taku Takeuchi, Noriaki Kasai, and Daiki Ito, finishing in 6th place. Kobayashi won his first Olympic gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in the men's normal hill event. He became the third Japanese athlete to win a gold medal in the individual ski jumping events at the Olympics, after Kazuyoshi Funaki in the individual large hill event in 1998, and Yukio Kasaya in the individual normal hill event in 1972. He also succeeded in the other event, the men's large hill, placing 2nd. ==Major tournament results==

Winter Olympics FIS Nordic World Ski Championships FIS Ski Flying World Championships == World Cup ==

Standings Individual wins Individual starts (245) ==References==