Miho Takagi ended the 2018-2019 World Cup in style on Sunday, setting a world record on her way to winning the competition's final 1,500-meter race of the season. Takagi clocked 1 minute, 49.83 seconds to claim the World Cup Final victory on the Utah Olympic ...
Japanese speedskaters set national marks in long track competition
Nao Kodaira, Miho Takagi and Tatsuya Shinhama all set national records on the first day of the ISU long track World Cup speed skating finals on Saturday. Kodaira slashed 0.03 second off her own mark when she clocked 36.47 seconds to win the first women's ...
Martina Sablikova overtakes Miho Takagi to win allround speedskating world title
Miho Takagi fell short in her bid for back-to-back titles at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships on Sunday, finishing second behind the Czech Republic's Martina Sablikova. Defending champion Takagi came into the final day of competition in Calgary with the overall lead, having won ...
Miho Takagi races to top of leaderboard after first day first day of allround world championships
Defending champion Miho Takagi won the 500-meter race by a wide margin to claim the lead in the women's competition on Saturday, the first day of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships. Martina Sablikova will go into the final day of the tournament in second ...
Nao Kodaira claimed the women's overall title for the first time in two years at the ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Heereveen on Sunday. Kodaira, who pulled out of the competition before the final event last year due to illness, won the 500-meter ...
Nao Kodaira won the first 500-meter race and finished fourth in the 1,000 to position herself at the top of the women's standings at the ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships on Saturday. Kodaira clocked 37.27 seconds for gold in the 500 ahead of Austria's ...
Pyeongchang Olympic silver medalist Miho Takagi finished second in the women's 1,500-meter race on Sunday, the final day of the ISU World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships. Takagi clocked 1 minute, 53.32 seconds at the Max Aicher Arena in Inzell for silver but was once ...
Olympic champion Nao Kodaira's two-year undefeated run in the 500-meter race came to an end Friday when she finished second at the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships. Kodaira, who won her 37th consecutive race over the distance since March 2016 on Feb. 2, ...
Nao Kodaira won her sixth national sprint championship on Sunday, beating Miho Takagi by a narrow margin. Kodaira kept her lead from the previous day by winning the women's 500 meters and placing runner-up in the 1,000 at Meiji Hokkaido Tokachi Oval. She scored a two-day ...
Miho Takagi earned her third gold medal of the week Sunday when she led Japan to victory in the women's team sprint at the ISU World Cup in Poland. On the final day of action at Arena Lodowa, the team of Takagi, Konami Soga and ...
Miho Takagi clinched her first gold of the season when she cruised to victory in the 1,500 meters on the third stop of the ISU World Cup circuit on Saturday in Poland. Takagi, the silver medalist in the women's 1,500 at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics ...
Japan dominated the men's and women's team pursuit events on the opening day of the third World Cup meet of the season on Friday. The women's team of Miho Takagi, her sister Nana, and Ayano Sato stormed to victory in 3 minutes, 2.49 seconds at ...
