Daiki Ito

Shimokawa, Hokkaido — even the name sounds cold, and that's exactly the kind of place that produces a ski jumper. Daiki Ito spent two decades as one of Japan's most reliable fliers on the World Cup circuit, from 2002 to 2022, the kind of guy who quietly racks up results while flashier names grab the headlines. There's something almost meditative about ski jumping that suits someone from a small northern town: you train obsessively, you stand alone at the top of a terrifying ramp, and then in about five seconds everything you've built either works or it doesn't. 172 cm is on the compact side, but in jumping it's technique and nerve that matter, and on both counts he held his own on the world stage for a long time.

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Daiki Ito is a Japanese former ski jumper born on December 27, 1985, in Shimokawa, Hokkaido. He attended Hokkaido Shimokawa Commercial High School, a region known for producing elite ski jumping talent. Standing 172 cm tall, he competed at five Winter Olympics from Turin 2006 to Beijing 2022, won team bronze at Sochi 2014 and mixed team gold at the 2013 World Championships, and now works as a coach.

Name (English)

Daiki Ito

Name (Japanese)

伊東大貴

Reading

いとう だいき

Born

December 27, 1985 (age 40)

Origin

Shimokawa, Hokkaido, Japan

Height

172cm

Occupation

Ski Jumper

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

High school

Hokkaido Shimokawa Commercial High School

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E6%9D%B1%E5%A4%A7%E8%B2%B4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721282

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Ski Jumper

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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