Nao Kodaira
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| Native name | 小平 奈緒 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 May 1986 Chino, Nagano, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nao Kodaira (Japanese: 小平 奈緒; born 26 May 1986) is a Japanese long track speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances.
She is the 2018 Olympic champion in the 500 m distance. Kodaira is the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic gold medal in speed skating.
In 2009, she graduated from Shinshu University with a bachelor's degree in education.
Career[]
At the 2010 Winter Olympics she won a silver medal in the team pursuit event. She placed 5th in the 1000 and the 1500 m events and 12th in the 500 m one at the Olympics. At the 2014–15 World Cup stop in Seoul, South Korea, on 21 November 2014, she won the 500 m event, and she has a total of 25 podium placings in the world cup. At the 2015 world single distance championships, she won the bronze medal in the 500 m event.
At the 2017 world single distance championships, she became the first Japanese woman to win an individual single distance world title winning the women's 500 m event.[1] She won also silver medal in the 1000 m event at the championships. At the world sprint championships in the year, she won the women's competition. In the season, she became overall winner of ISU World Cup 500 m cup.
Kodaira took the top step also in every single ISU world cup one in the 2017–18 season ahead of the Olympics.[2]
She is the current world record holder in the 2×500 metres and the sprint combination,[3] and the former world record holder in the 1000 metres[4] and the team sprint, as well as the current Olympic and Japanese record holder in the 500 metres.[5][6]
At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Kodaira won gold medal in the women's 500 m event and silver one in the women's 1000 m event respectively. In the former, she also set an Olympic record and became the first woman to break the 37-second barrier at sea level, as well as the first female Japanese Olympic champion in speed skating.[7]
Records[]
Personal records[]
| Personal records[8] | ||||
| Speed skating | ||||
| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 m | 36.39 | 16 March 2019 | Olympic Oval, Calgary | Current Japanese record.[6] |
| 500 m (sea level) | 36.94 | 18 February 2018 | Gangneung Oval, Gangneung | Current sea-level world best, current Olympic record.[5] |
| 2×500 m | 73.55 | 26 February 2017 | Olympic Oval, Calgary | Current world record.[9] |
| 1000 m | 1:11.77 | 9 March 2019 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City | |
| 1500 m | 1:52.82 | 16 February 2020 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City | |
| Team sprint | 1:26.82 | 14 November 2015 | Olympic Oval, Calgary | Former world record.[10][11] |
| Sprint comb. | 146.390 | 25–26 February 2017 | Olympic Oval, Calgary | Current world record.[3] |
World records[]
| World records[10] | ||||
| Speed skating | ||||
| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000 m | 1:12.09 | 10 December 2017 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City | World record until beaten by Brittany Bowe on 9 March 2019.[4] |
Olympic records[]
| Olympic records | ||||
| Speed skating | ||||
| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
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| 500 m | 36.94 | 18 February 2018 | Gangneung Oval, Gangneung | Current Olympic record.[5] |
References[]
- ^ "Kodaira captures women's 500-meter title at world championships". Japan Times. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ "ISU RESULTS". isuresults.eu. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Evolution of the world record Sprint combination Women". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Evolution of the world record 1000 meters Women". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Olympic Records". SpeedskatingResults.com. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "National Records – Japan (JPN)". speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ Harris, Beth (18 February 2018), "Japan's Nao Kodaira wins 500-meter speedskating gold over South Korea's Lee Sang-hwa", Chicago Tribune
- ^ "Nao Kodaira". speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ "Speed Skating – Records – Historical World Record 2 x 500m – Ladies". ISU. 26 February 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Nao Kodaira". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ "ISU World Cup Speed Skating Calgary – Result Team Sprint Ladies". ISU. 1 December 2017. Archived from the original on 3 December 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
External links[]
- Nao Kodaira at the International Skating Union
- Nao Kodaira at Olympic.org (archived)
- Nao Kodaira at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Nao Kodaira at Olympics.com
- Nao Kodaira at Olympedia
- Nao Kodaira in SpeedSkatingBase.eu
- Nao Kodaira at SpeedSkatingNews.info
- Nao Kodaira at SpeedSkatingStats.com
- Nao Kodaira at The-Sports.org
- Nao Kodaira at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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