Miho Takagi (speed skater)

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Miho Takagi
Takagi at the 2013 World Single Distance Championships
Personal information
NationalityJapanese
Born (1994-05-22) 22 May 1994 (age 29)
Makubetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
CountryJapan
SportSpeed skating
Event(s)1000 m, 1500 m, 3000 m
ClubNippon Sport Science University
Medal record
Women's speed skating
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2022 Beijing 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2018 Pyeongchang 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Pyeongchang 1000 m
World Single Distances Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Heerenveen Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2019 Inzell Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2020 Salt Lake City Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2024 Calgary 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2024 Calgary 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2016 Kolomna Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2017 Gangneung Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2019 Inzell 1500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Kolomna Mass start
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Gangneung 1500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Salt Lake City 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Heerenveen 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Heerenveen 1500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Calgary Team pursuit
World Sprint Championships
Gold medal – first place 2020 Hamar Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2024 Inzell Sprint
Silver medal – second place 2019 Heerenveen Sprint
World Allround Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Amsterdam Allround
Silver medal – second place 2019 Calgary Allround
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hamar Allround
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Hamar Allround
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sapporo 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sapporo 3000 m
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sapporo Mass start
Silver medal – second place 2017 Sapporo 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Astana/Almaty Team pursuit
Four Continents Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Salt Lake City 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2024 Salt Lake City 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2024 Salt Lake City Team sprint
Winter Universiade
Gold medal – first place Trentino 2013 1000 m

Miho Takagi (高木 美帆, Takagi Miho, born 22 May 1994) is a Japanese speed skater. She has won a total of seven medals at the Olympics, two of them gold.

Career

At the age of 15, Takagi represented Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics, finishing 35th in the women's 1000 metres and 23rd in the 1500 metres. In 2012 and 2013, she won the World Junior Speed Skating Championships.

After participating in several world cup and world championship events, she became a world champion when in the 2015 World Single Distance Championships she won the gold medal in the team pursuit where she participated together with her sister Nana Takagi and compatriot Ayaka Kikuchi.

In competition in Salt Lake City of 2017–18 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, she with Nana & Ayano Sato won women's team pursuit with the world record of 2 minutes & 50.87 seconds.

In the 2018 Olympics, Takagi won the silver medal in the women's 1500-metre speed skating event and the bronze medal in the women's 1000-metre speed skating event. Takagi was also part of the Nippon team that won the 2018 Olympics women's team pursuit with a time of 2 minutes & 53.89 seconds, the Olympic record & the sea-level world best.[1]

She won the women's competition at the 2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships.

In the 2017–18 world cup, the Nippon team she was part of won all women's team pursuit competitions of the world cup & became a 3-continuous-season overall world cup winner in the pursuit & she became overall winner in women's 1500 metres & allround.

She finished second in the 2019 World Allround Speed Skating Championships.

Takagi set a world record in the women's 1500 meters in 2019 with a time of 1:49.83 in Salt Lake City, Utah.[2]

At 2022 Winter Olympics, Takagi earned three silver medals in 1500m, 500m, and team pursuit. At the point when she earned her third medal in the 2022 games, which was her sixth overall, she became the Japanese female athlete with the biggest number of Olympic medals earned, surpassing three other athletes, Miya Tachibana and Miho Takeda in synchronized swimming, and Ryoko Tani in Judo, all of those who have earned 5 Olympic medals each in summer games. Takagi also won her second Olympic gold, and the first one in an individual event, in 1000m with a new Olympic record time of 1:13:19.

Personal records

Distance Result Date Location
500 m 37.12 13 February 2022 Beijing National Speed Skating Oval, Beijing
1000 m 1:11.71 9 March 2019 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
1500 m 1:49.83 10 March 2019 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
3000 m 3:55.45 10 December 2021 Olympic Oval, Calgary
5000 m 7:01.97 6 March 2022 Hamar Olympic Hall, Hamar

She is currently in 2nd position in the adelskalender.[3]

Olympic Games

7 medals – (2 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze)

Event 500 m 1000 m 1500 m 3000 m 5000 m Team pursuit
Canada 2010 Vancouver 35th 23rd
South Korea 2018 Pyeongchang Bronze Silver 5th Gold
China 2022 Beijing Silver Gold Silver 6th Silver

See also

References

  1. ^ Fielding, Gus (22 February 2018), "Miho Takagi overjoyed after claiming coveted gold medal in team pursuit", The Japan Times
  2. ^ "Miho Takagi achieves world record in 1500 meters", The Japan Times, 11 March 2019
  3. ^ "Adelskalender Small Combination Women". severtstenlund.se. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

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