Salt Lake City dual gold medallist Simon Ammann of Switzerland posted his fourth win of the season at the World Cup ski jumping here in Sapporo on Sunday.
The 28-year-old Swiss scored 293.1 points from two jumps of 139.5 and 135.0 metres, beating Japan's veteran Noriaki Kasai in second place on 255.7 points.
It was Ammann's 12th World Cup win since his first victory at Oslo in 2002.
Martin Koch of Austria finished third with 255.4 points.
"I think I'm on the right way towards the Olympics. I needed to make good jumps to gain confidence. It gives me a lot of confidence that I was able to do it," said Ammann.
Ammann, the 2007 world champion in Sapporo, also stretched his lead in the overall standings with a total of 939 points.
Torino Olympic champion Thomas Morgenstern of Austria, the winner in Sapporo on Saturday, was second with 796 points and his compatriot, Andreas Kofler, third with 587 points.
It was the 15th leg of the 24-round World Cup series with the next round moving to Zakopane in Poland on Friday.
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