Masahiro Akimoto (ski jumper)

Masahiro Akimoto (秋元 正博) (born 3 September 1956) is a Japanese former ski jumper.

Career
He competed from 1980 to 1986. He finished fourth in the individual large hill event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Akimoto's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth in the team large hill events at Seefeld, Austria in 1985. He earned a total of four World Cup wins from 1980 to 1985.