The men's normal hill individual competition of the Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 5–6 February, at the Snow Ruyi hill in Zhangjiakou.[1] The event was won by Ryōyū Kobayashi of Japan became the Olympic champion. Manuel Fettner of Austria won the silver medal, and Dawid Kubacki of Poland the bronze medal. For Kobayashi and Fettner this was the first ever Olympic medal, and for Kubacki the first individual Olympic medal.
Kobayashi won the first spring, six points ahead of Peter Prevc. Kamil Stoch, the 2014 champion, was in the third position. In the second jump, Dawid Kubacki, wo was eight in the first round, jumped at 103 m and took the lead. Manuel Fettner, who was fifth, jumped at 104 m, and took the lead as well. Evgenii Klimov, Stoch, and Prevc all demonstrated jumps insufficient for a medal, but Kobayashi with a 99.5 m jump won gold. Kobayashi became the first Japanese athlete to win the ski jumping event after the 1998 games in Nagano, Japan, and second Japanese athlete to win the individual normal hill event after Yukio Kasaya in 1972. This was also the first time that a Japanese athlete won a gold medal in a ski jumping event outside of Japan.
