Yukio Kasaya, winner of the normal hill event, was the first ever Winter Olympic gold medalist for Japan, while Wojciech Fortuna was the first ever Winter gold medalist for Poland.
At the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia, he finished second in the individual normal hill behind Gariy Napalkov (Soviet Union).
Yukio Mishima | Yukio Hatoyama | Yukio Tani | Yukio Ozaki | Yukio Ninagawa | Yukio Kasaya | Yukio Hattori | Yukio Aoshima | 26 May 1945. Corporal Yukio Araki, holding a puppy, with four other pilots of the 72nd ''Shinbu'' Squadron at Kaseda, Kagoshima |