Ryōyū Kobayashi
| Ryōyū Kobayashi 小林 陵侑 | |
|---|---|
Kobayashi in Wisła (2018) | |
| Country | Japan |
| Born | 8 November 1996 Hachimantai, Iwate, Japan |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Ski club | Team Roy |
| Personal best | 252 m (827 ft) Planica, 24 March 2019 |
| World Cup career | |
| Seasons | 2016–present |
| Indiv. starts | 225 |
| Indiv. podiums | 70 |
| Indiv. wins | 35 |
| Team starts | 50 |
| Team podiums | 8 |
| Overall titles | 2 (2019, 2022) |
| Four Hills titles | 3 (2019, 2022, 2024) |
| Ski Flying titles | 1 (2019) |
| Raw Air titles | 1 (2019) |
Medal record | |
| Updated on 13 March 2025. | |
Ryōyū Kobayashi (小林 陵侑, Kobayashi Ryōyū; born 8 November 1996) is a Japanese ski jumper.
As a ski jumper, he has won 35 World Cup individual competitions, the World Cup overall title twice, Four Hills Tournament three times, and is an individual Olympics gold medalist.
During his victorious 2018–19 World Cup season, Kobayashi scored 13 individual wins and won all six possible titles in a single season: the World Cup overall title, the Ski Flying World Cup overall, the Four Hills Tournament, the Raw Air tournament, the Planica7 tournament, and Willingen Five tournament.
He is the third ski jumper in history to win the 'Grand Slam' of all four events in the 4Hills Tournament, the gold medal at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing on the normal hill and the silver on the large hill.
With 252 metres (827 ft), the third longest jump in history, he is the current Japanese record holder. In a nonofficial event near Akureyri on Iceland, in April 2024 he achieved a distance of 291 m after being around 10 seconds in the air and landing smoothly. It was an unofficial world record. However, it is not being counted as a ski flying world record by FIS.