Seiji Aochi
| Seiji Aochi | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Seiji Aochi | ||||||||||||||
| Born | June 21, 1942 Otaru, Hokkaido | ||||||||||||||
| Died | August 14, 2008 (aged 66) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Seiji Aochi (青地 清二, Aochi Seiji) (June 21, 1942 – August 14, 2008) was a Japanese ski jumper who competed in the early 1970s. His best finish was a bronze medal in the Individual normal hill event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.
Aochi attended Meiji University and then joined Snow Brand Milk Products Company. He joined the company's ski club and later stayed as a mentor to younger skiers.[1]
Aochi died of gastric cancer.
References
- S. Aochi at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Seiji Aochi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
 | This biographical article relating to Japanese ski jumping is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Categories:
- 1942 births
- 2008 deaths
- Skiers from Hokkaido
- Deaths from stomach cancer
- Japanese male ski jumpers
- Ski jumpers at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Ski jumpers at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ski jumpers for Japan
- Olympic medalists in ski jumping
- People from Otaru
- Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- 20th-century Japanese people
- Japanese ski jumping biography stubs