Takanori Kono
| Takanori Kōno 河野 孝典 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Takanori Kono stamp of Azerbaijan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 March 1969 Nozawaonsen, Nagano, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Takanori Kono (河野 孝典, Kōno Takanori) (born March 7, 1969) is a former Japanese nordic combined skier who competed during the 1990s, winning at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, the Winter Olympics, and the Holmenkollen ski festival.
Kono won three medals at the Winter Olympics, including two golds (3 x 10 km team: 1992, 1994) and a silver (15 km individual: 1994). He also won two gold medals in the team event at the world championships (3 x 10 km: 1993, 4 x 5 km: 1995).
Kono also won the Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1993, becoming the first Asian to win at the prestigious event.
Kono was Deputy Vice Mayor of the Athletes Village at the 1998 Winter Olympics.[1]
He is now coach for the Japanese Nordic combined team, a role he has had since 2006.
References
[edit]- ^ Hanazawa, Nahomi (1999). The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun (ed.). Official Report of the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, Vol. 2: Sixteen Days of Glory (PDF). Translated by Norman Kong. Nagano (Japan): NAOC. p. 243. ISBN 4784098267.
External links
[edit]- Takanori Kono at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
- Takanori Kono at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1969 births
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
- Japanese male Nordic combined skiers
- Living people
- Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Japan
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
- Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Winter World University Games medalists in Nordic combined
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan
- Competitors at the 1989 Winter Universiade
- Competitors at the 1991 Winter Universiade
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