Miho Takagi (speed skater)
Takagi at the 2013 World Single Distance Championships | |
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Japanese |
Born | Makubetsu, Hokkaido, Japan | 22 May 1994
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Japan |
Sport | Speed skating |
Event(s) | 1000 m, 1500 m, 3000 m |
Club | Nippon Sport Science University |
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Medal record |
Miho Takagi (高木 美帆, Takagi Miho, born 22 May 1994) is a Japanese speed skater.
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 both 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 women competition at 2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships.
In the 2017–18 world cup, Nippon team she was part of won all women's team pursuit competitions of the world cup & became 3-continuous-season overall world cup winner in the pursuit & she became overall winner in women's 1500 metres & allround.
Personal records[]
Distance | Result | Date | Location |
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500 m | 38.15 | 4 March 2017 | Vikingskipet, Hamar |
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 | 3:57.09 | 1 December 2017 | Olympic Oval, Calgary |
5000 m | 7:04.63 | 20 November 2015 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City |
She is currently in 5th position in the adelskalender.[2]
See also[]
- List of world records in speed skating
- World record progression 1500 m speed skating women
- World record progression team pursuit speed skating women
- List of Olympic records in speed skating
References[]
- ^ Fielding, Gus (22 February 2018), "Miho Takagi overjoyed after claiming coveted gold medal in team pursuit", Japan Times
- ^ "Adelskalendern". evertstenlund.se. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
External links[]
- Miho Takagi at the International Skating Union
- Miho Takagi at Olympic.org (archived)
- Miho Takagi at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Miho Takagi at Olympics.com
- Miho Takagi at Olympedia
- Miho Takagi in SpeedSkatingBase.eu
- Miho Takagi at SpeedSkatingNews.info
- Miho Takagi at SpeedSkatingStats.com
- Miho Takagi at The-Sports.org
- Miho Takagi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1994 births
- Japanese female speed skaters
- Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic speed skaters of Japan
- Speed skaters at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
- Speed skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
- Medalists at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
- Medalists at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
- Asian Games medalists in speed skating
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Sportspeople from Hokkaido
- Universiade medalists in speed skating
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in speed skating
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
- World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
- World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
- Universiade gold medalists for Japan
- Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade
- Japanese speed skating biography stubs