Ski jumping: Ryoyu Kobayashi becomes 1st Japanese man to win 20 World Cups

Ryoyu Kobayashi became the first Japanese man to reach 20 individual ski jumping World Cup wins as he soared to victory in freezing conditions in Ruka, Finland on Saturday.Kobayashi beat Slovenian Anze Lanisek after racking up a total of 324.5 points on a first jump of 138.5 meters that put him 1.4 points behind Lanisek and a second of 143 meters to claim his first win of the season.Kobayashi leapfrogged countrymen and Nordic combined skiers Kenji Ogiwara and Akito Watabe to join an elite group of ski jumpers to boast at least 20 individual World Cup victories. With his 53 wins, Austrian Gr…READ FULL ARTICLE