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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 ...
Miho Takagi earns silver ahead of Nao Kodaira in 1,000-meter race
Miho Takagi and Nao Kodaira claimed silver and bronze, respectively, on Sunday in the women's 1,000-meter race won by Austria's Vanessa Herzog at the season-opening event of the ISU speedskating World Cup. Herzog crossed the line in 1 minute, 14.568 seconds at Meiji Hokkaido Tokachi ...
Nao Kodaira opened her World Cup season with another 500-meter victory on Friday, while her compatriots captured their eighth straight World Cup women's team pursuit win. Skating on home ice at Tokachi Oval, the defending Olympic 500-meter champion won in 37.496 seconds, 0.54 ahead of ...
Olympic champ Nao Kodaira triumphs in first 500-meter race of season
Nao Kodaira opened the new season on a strong note Friday, topping the podium in the women's 500 meters at the Japan Cup. The Pyeongchang Olympic gold medal-winning speedskater, competing in her first official meet of the season, won the race in 37.78 seconds at ...
Miho Takagi became the first Japanese to win an overall speedskating World Cup championship on Sunday. On the final day of the season at the World Cup Final, Takagi remained perfect in the World Cup women's 1,500 meters, winning her fifth race of the season ...
Miho Takagi became the first Japanese woman to win the speedskating allround world championships after beating defending champion Ireen Wust in a thrilling 1,500-meter race on Saturday. The 1,500 win was partial revenge for Takagi, who had to settle for silver behind Wust over the ...
Miho Takagi took a big lead over six-time champion Ireen Wust of the Netherlands after the first races of the three-day World Allround Speed Skating Championships on Friday. Takagi clocked 39.01 seconds in the women's 500 meters on the outdoor track in the Amsterdam Olympic ...
