Olympia 2018: Most frequent starter at winter games: Kasai with eighth participation

The seemingly young Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai is the first athlete in Olympic history to officially participate in the Winter Games for the eighth time in Pyeongchang with his first jump from the normal hill.

The now 45-year-old made his Olympic debut in 1992 in Albertville, and has been with him ever since. Kasai won silver with the team in 1994 and silver in 2014 on the big hill, plus team bronze four years ago.

The German record participant is the same age speed skater Claudia Pechstein. The five-time Olympic gold medallist from Berlin also made her seventh Olympic participation perfect on Saturday with her 3,000 m run. Also Pechstein had her first Olympic start in 1992. Only in Vancouver 2010 she was not there.

Just like Pechstein, only ski jumper Janne Ahonen from Finland, who left the ski jump on Saturday like Kasai, and tobogganist Albert Demtschenko (Russia) on seven Olympic starts.