Yukio Kasaya

is a Japanese athlete.  He is best known as a ski jumper and as the winner of an Olympic gold medal.SportsReference.com (SR/Olympics), Yukio Kasaya ; retrieved 2012-7-26.

In the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Kasaya earned Japan's first Olympic Winter Games gold medal in the 70m ski jump.Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC),  "JOC History at a Glance"; retrieved 2012-7-26.
Kasaya took up ski jumping at the Taketsuru facility in his native Yoichi, which was built by the founder of Nikka Whisky Distilling Masataka Taketsuru. The facility was renamed after Kasaya in 1972.Taketsuru. skisprungschanzen.com Kasaya was a long-term employee of the Nikka distillery, eventually becoming its section head.Fröhliche Fassade. Der Spiegel (February 16, 1998)

Kasaya died in Sapporo on April 23, 2024, at the age of 80.
 Related pages
 Sports in Japan
 Japan at the Olympics

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Category:Olympic gold medalists for Japan
Category:Japanese skiers