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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.

Miho Takagi

Takagi at the 2013 World Single Distance Championships
Personal information
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1994-05-22) 22 May 1994 (age 28) Makubetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
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
Medal record Women's speed skating Representing  Japan Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang Team pursuit 2022 Beijing 1000 m 2018 Pyeongchang 1500 m 2022 Beijing 500 m 2022 Beijing 1500 m 2022 Beijing Team pursuit 2018 Pyeongchang 1000 m World Allround Championships 2018 Amsterdam Allround 2019 Calgary Allround 2022 Hamar Allround 2017 Hamar Allround World Single Distances Championships 2015 Heerenveen Team pursuit 2019 Inzell Team pursuit 2020 Salt Lake City Team pursuit 2016 Kolomna Team pursuit 2017 Gangneung Team pursuit 2019 Inzell 1500 m 2016 Kolomna Mass start 2020 Salt Lake City 1000 m 2017 Gangneung 1500 m World Sprint Championships 2020 Hamar Sprint 2019 Heerenveen Sprint Asian Games 2017 Sapporo 1500 m 2017 Sapporo 3000 m 2017 Sapporo Mass start 2017 Sapporo 1000 m 2011 Astana/Almaty Team pursuit Winter Universiade Trentino 2013 1000 m

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 the women's competition at the 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.

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 3 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 other 3 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
2010 Vancouver	—	35th	23rd	—	—	—
2018 Pyeongchang	—	Bronze	Silver	5th	—	Gold
2022 Beijing	Silver	Gold	Silver	6th	—	Silver

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
• List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games

References

External links

• Miho Takagi at the International Skating Union
• Miho Takagi at Olympedia

На других языках

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[de] Miho Takagi (Eisschnellläuferin)

Miho Takagi (jap. 高木 美帆, Takagi Miho; * 22. Mai 1994 in Makubetsu auf Hokkaidō) ist eine japanische Eisschnellläuferin.

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- [en] Miho Takagi (speed skater)

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[it] Miho Takagi

Miho Takagi (高木 美帆 Takagi Miho?; Makubetsu, 22 maggio 1994) è una pattinatrice di velocità su ghiaccio giapponese.

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[ru] Такаги, Михо

Михо Такаги (яп. 髙木 美帆; 22 мая 1994) — японская конькобежка, двукратная олимпийская чемпионка, чемпионка мира в классическом многоборье (2018), чемпионка мира в спринтерском многоборье (2020), трёхкратная чемпионка мира в командной гонке (2015, 2019 и 2020), трёхкратная победительница Азиатских игр, действующая рекордсменка мира на дистанции 1500 метров. Занимает второе место в рейтинге Adelskalender, уступая только Синди Классен.

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