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Japan wins speedskating World Cup women's team pursuit in new world-record time

More Sports / Winter Sports Dec 3, 2017

Japan wins speedskating World Cup women's team pursuit in new world-record time

Japan won the women's team pursuit event in a new world-record time at a speedskating World Cup meet on Saturday. Miho Takagi, her older sister Nana and Ayaka Kikuchi secured victory in 2 minutes, 53.88 seconds, rewriting the record of 2:55.77 that the Takagi sisters ...

More Sports / Winter Sports Feb 15, 2015

Japan women's speedskaters earn team pursuit gold

The Japan women's speedskating team won its first gold medal Saturday in the team pursuit at the world single distance championships. On the third day of the meet, Ayaka Kikuchi and the Takagi sisters, Nana and Miho, cut a winning time of 3 minutes, 1.53 ...

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