Japanese Olympian Ryoyu Kobayashi smashes ski jump world record

The Japanese Olympic champion Ryoyu Kobayashi has broken the world record for the longest ski jump after reaching a distance of 291 meters in Akureyri, Iceland.
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Kobayashi, who has 32 individual wins and two overall World Cup titles as well as individual gold and silver medals at the 2022 Olympics, shattered the ski flying and ski jump world record by 37.5m, previously held by the Austrian Stefan Kraft, who reached 253.5 meters in 2017. 'Of course the fact that I was able to make history here is nothing short of spectacular, but this was not possible without the support of everyone that's involved in the challenge,' Kobayashi said. 'This record will be my source of strength going forward.'
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Ryoyu Airlanes

[@mpalomeque]

To put this into perspective: An American football field measures 109.72 meters (sky jump world record 291 meters).

[@verkat3rt]

You can't compare this with Stefan Kraft without mentioning that the jump was done on a special ramp. It is still the longest jump and an insane performance of Kobayashi but Stefan did his record under FIS conditions with an official rampsize and therefore he remains undefeated with his record.

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This is not a ‘what type of ramp’ record 🙄

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The Jinx part 3 made in Japan