(1931-05-20) May 20, 1931 (age 93) Tomari, Kunashiri (ja), Hokkaidō, Japan
Occupation
Alpine skier
Height
1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines
Slalom, giant slalom, Downhill, combined
Club
Dartmouth College
Olympics
Teams
3 – (1952, 1956, 1960)
Medals
1 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams
4 – (1952, 1956, 1958, 1960) includes Olympics
Medals
2 (0 gold)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing Japan
Olympic Games
1956 Cortina
Slalom
World Championships
1958 Bad Gastein
Slalom
1956 Olympic slalom medalists: Stig Sollander, Toni Sailer (gold), and IgayaIgaya training on the roof of his house in 1951
Chiharu Igaya,OLY[1] (猪谷 千春, Igaya Chiharu, born May 20, 1931) is a former Olympic alpine ski racer and silver medalist from Japan. He competed in three Winter Olympics (1952, 1956, 1960).[2]
^Olympians: Olympians for Life – website of the WOA
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Chiharu Igaya". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
ChiharuIgaya, OLY (猪谷 千春, IgayaChiharu, born May 20, 1931) is a former Olympic alpine ski racer and silver medalist from Japan. He competed in three...
hiragana or katakana. Chiharu Araki (千陽, born 1982), Japanese politician Chiharu Icho (千春, born 1981), Japanese wrestler ChiharuIgaya (千春, born 1931), Japanese...
Japan competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. ChiharuIgaya won the nation's first ever medal and the first Asian medalist at the...
many of whom were in reality paid by the state to train full-time. ChiharuIgaya won the first Winter Olympics medal for Japan and the continent of Asia...
Japanese athlete to win a gold medal and the second Japanese (after ChiharuIgaya) to win any medal at the Winter olympics. Previously he placed second...
Japan had never won a gold medal, and had won only one medal (silver by ChiharuIgaya in 1956) overall, in the Winter Olympics. The host country's fans in...
slalom; the men swept the medals and the women took silver and bronze. ChiharuIgaya won the first Winter Olympics medal for Japan when he placed second...
in the team standings. Repeat individual champions were Dartmouth's ChiharuIgaya (Alpine, Slalom), Denver's Willis Olson (Jumping, third consecutive)...
was carried around the stadium by eight former Japanese Olympians: ChiharuIgaya, Yukio Kasaya, Akitsugu Konno, Yoshihiro Kitazawa, Hatsue Nagakubo-Takamizawa...
Lu Chengrong Yu Zaiqing Guy Drut Jean-Claude Killy Henri Sérandour ChiharuIgaya Shunichiro Okano Sinan Erdem Věra Čáslavská Alexandre de Merode Mohamad...
Guttorm Berge Norway 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo details Toni Sailer Austria ChiharuIgaya Japan Stig Sollander Sweden 1960 Squaw Valley details Ernst Hinterseer...
September 20, 1997 85 minutes Spur to Glory: The IgayaChiharu Story 栄光へのシュプール 猪谷千春物語 (Eikō e no Spur: IgayaChiharu Monogatari) Japan Masaharu Okuwaki Mushi...
Corcoran". US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2021-12-21. "ChiharuIgaya". US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame. "Liz McIntyre". US Ski & Snowboard...
the session organisation, a perfect 6. Lambis Nikolaou of Greece and ChiharuIgaya from Japan were elected as Vice presidents. Singapore's IOC member,...
four seconds. Sunday, 2 February In the opening race of the championships, Igaya of Japan, the 1956 Olympic silver medalist, led after the first run in an...
television writer, lyricist) Member - Tadao Ando (architect) Member - ChiharuIgaya (honorary member of IOC) Member - Shunichiro Okano (honorary member...
team standings. The sole repeat individual champion was Dartmouth's ChiharuIgaya in the slalom, his third consecutive and sixth individual NCAA title...
(downhill, slalom) and Nordic (cross country, jumping) Dartmouth's ChiharuIgaya, a Japanese national, claimed three of the individual titles: alpine...
professional skier Charles S. Feeney (1943) – president of the National League ChiharuIgaya (1957) – Olympic medalist for alpine skiing George Munroe (1943) – professional...
candidate cities Other members Anita L. Defrantz · James L. Easton · ChiharuIgaya · Shun-Ichiro Okano · João Havelange · Carlos Arthur Nuzman · Juan...
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