Miho Takagi (speed skater)
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22 May 1994 Makubetsu, Hokkaido, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 Nippon 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 | 1:12.63 | 10 December 2017 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake city |
| 1500 m | 1:51.49 | 9 December 2017 | 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 |
See also
References
- ↑ Fielding, Gus (February 22, 2018), "Miho Takagi overjoyed after claiming coveted gold medal in team pursuit", The Japan Times
