Eddie the Eagle

Eddie the Eagle is, for me, one of sport's most lovable underdogs ever. At the 1988 Calgary Olympics, Michael Edwards became the first Brit to compete in Olympic ski jumping, and he finished dead last, yet the world adored him. What I find genuinely inspiring is that he had no funding, thick glasses, and barely any training, but he jumped anyway out of sheer determination. He even held the British ski jumping record for over a decade. The Cheltenham-born athlete proved that the Olympic spirit isn't only about winning, and the 2016 film about him captured that beautifully. A reminder that courage counts.

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Name (English)

Eddie the Eagle

Name (Japanese)

マイケル・エドワーズ

Reading

まいける・えどわーず

Born

December 5, 1963 (age 62)

Origin

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Height

173 cm

Occupation

ski jumper / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit

University

De Montfort University

• Official sitehttps://eddie-the-eagle.co.uk
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20the%20Eagle
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550548

Tags

• ski jumper
• singer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.