Ski jumper Ryosuke Kobayashi achieves a new world record with an amazing “flying distance of 291m” The challenge video has been viewed over 6.8 million times in half a day | ORICON NEWS

Red Bull athlete Ryosuke Kobayashi (27), a ski jumper who won a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, on the 24th at a ski jumping hill specially built on a snowy mountain at the Fryðarfjall ski resort in Akureyri, northern Iceland. , setting a new world record with an amazing flight distance of 291 meters (according to the company and measured by experts on site). This record, which broke her previous world record by 37.5 meters, was a great achievement that greatly expanded the possibilities of ski jumping.

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The background to achieving this record was the reckless challenge of overcoming the constraint that there are no ski jumps with a hill size (the limit of a safe landing area) of 300 meters.

Kobayashi’s long-held dream was to “break the limits” in sports and accomplish a feat that no one else had achieved. In order to make that dream come true, this project was born from the idea that if there was no jumping hill that could break the world record, let’s build one. This time, the jump hill, which was built just for Kobayashi against the backdrop of the magnificent nature of Iceland, took over two months to construct on a natural snowy mountain after two years of research.

The jump starts at an altitude of 1,115 meters and descends at a slope of up to 36 degrees, over 360 meters of elevation difference. A typical large hill jump is about 140 meters long, and the flying hill, the largest ski jump, is 185 meters long. In preparation for this grueling challenge, Kobayashi has been training at the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center in Austria and wind tunnel training in Sweden since 2023.

After arriving in Iceland, Kobayashi set a new world record by jumping 256 meters on April 23rd. After that, he set new records one after another with 259 meters and 282 meters, and on the 24th he achieved a new world record of 291 meters.

In this jump, Kobayashi reached a maximum speed of approximately 107 km/h at the moment of takeoff, and flew through the air for approximately 8 seconds (normal large hill jumps take about 4 to 5 seconds). About breaking the world record, Kobayashi said, “It’s been a dream of mine for many years.I’ve always wanted to jump farther than anyone else, and I wanted to continue pushing the limits of ski jumping.It’s a scale I’ve never experienced before. I was blessed with the best team and it was a dream come true.”

In addition, the challenge video posted on Red Bull’s Instagram has been viewed more than 6.8 million times in half a day (as of April 25, 2024) and has become a hot topic on social media.