Ski Jumping
Ren Nikaido
- Normal Hill
- Large Hill
- Ski Flying
- Team
- Nationality
- Japan
- Hometown
- Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
- Height
- 166 cm
- Born
- 24 May 2001
- Turned pro
- 2020
- Primary discipline
- Normal Hill
About Ren Nikaido
Japanese ski jumper from Ebetsu, Hokkaido, whose father Manabu was himself a world-championship-level ski jumper. Competing for the Nippon Beer ski jumping team - established in autumn 2022 after the company's president learned of him through the Sapporo Ski Federation, making Nikaido its first signed athlete - he has competed on the World Cup since 2020, won a Grand Prix individual event in Rasnov in 2022, and became Japanese national champion in 2023. Broke out in 2025-26, finishing the World Cup season 4th overall with 1,109 points. At the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics, won three medals: individual large hill silver, individual normal hill bronze, and Team Normal Hill bronze (with Japan), while placing 6th in the Super Team large hill.
2025-26 World Cup: 4th overall, 1,109 points (FIS official cup standings). Career: 2022 Grand Prix individual winner (Rasnov); 2023 Japanese national champion. 2026 Olympics (Milano Cortina): silver individual large hill; bronze individual normal hill; bronze Team Normal Hill (with Japan); 6th Super Team large hill - three Olympic medals total.
Sponsors: Fischer (skis)
Setup
1 item
Skis
Fischer Ski jumping
- Ski Jumping
Skis per FIS's official athlete database (Skis: Fischer), corroborated by Fischer's own official athlete page for Nikaido (fischersports.com/athlete/ren-nikaido).
Ski jumping race ski from Fischer's ski jumping athlete roster, distinct from the brand's existing alpine and cross-country race-ski entries. Starting the 2025-26 season, Fischer Sports' ski jumping skis carry a co-branding partnership with the unrelated German fastening-technology company 'fischer Group', featuring the fischer Group's 'DuoPower' anchor-product branding on the skis alongside the Fischer Sports logo - this is a sponsorship/branding tie-up, not a new ski model name.
Setup verified 18 July 2026
Sources
- https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=jp&competitorid=194909&type=result
- https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/cup-standings.html?cupcode=WC&disciplinecode=SJ&gendercode=M&seasoncode=2026§orcode=JP
- https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=JP&competitorid=194909&raceid=7585
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Nikaid%C5%8D
- https://www.fischersports.com/athlete/ren-nikaido