Takanori Kono

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.

Takanori Kono

Takanori Kono on stamp of Azerbaijan
Medal record
Men's nordic combined
Olympic Games
1992 Albertville 3 x 10 km team
1994 Lillehammer 3 x 10 km team
1994 Lillehammer 15 km individual
World Championships
1993 Falun3 x 10 km team
1995 Thunder Bay4 x 5 km team

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
  1. 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.


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