Esmee Visser wins women's 5,000 as Dutch claim more speedskating gold
Esmee Visser continued the Netherlands' unrivaled run in Pyeongchang Olympic speed skating Friday, winning the 5,000-meter gold medal, her country's sixth at Gangneung Oval at these games. Up against the sport's royalty in Martina Sablikova and Claudia Pechstein, the diminutive Dutchwoman separated herself from the ...
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 ...
Japan women set team pursuit world record at Speedskating World Cup
Japan triumphed in the women's team pursuit event at the Speedskating World Cup on Friday, setting a world record by 0.02 seconds. Miho Takagi, her older sister Nana and Ayano Sato breezed to victory with a time of 2 minutes, 55.77 seconds, breaking Canada's 2009 ...
Takagi ends Japan's medal drought at all-around speedskating worlds
Miho Takagi became the first Japanese speedskater in 17 years to win a medal at the world all-around championships when she captured the bronze on Sunday. Ireen Wust of the Netherlands claimed her sixth world title and Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic took silver ...
Miho Takagi claimed her third speedskating medal at the Asian Winter Games on Tuesday with a victory in the women's 1,500 meters, while Nao Kodaira earned her second gold after beating two-time defending Olympic champ Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea in the 500-meter competition. In ...
Oshigiri pulls out of World Allround Speed Skating Championships with groin injury
Misaki Oshigiri will miss next month's World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Norway because of a groin injury, the Japan Skating Federation said Saturday. Nana Takagi will take Oshigiri's place on the Japan women's squad for the March 4-5 championships in Hamar. Oshigiri hurt her groin ...
Misaki Oshigiri, Miho Takagi and Nana Takagi combined to earn Japan the women's team pursuit overall title on Saturday in the final World Cup meet of the season. Japan came from behind to beat the Dutch team of Antoinette de Jong, Marrit Leenstra and Ireen ...
Japan overcame the Netherlands to capture the gold medal in the women's team pursuit at the World Cup speed skating competition on Saturday. The Japanese team of Nana Takagi, Miho Takagi and Misaki Oshigiri clocked 2 minutes, 59.08 seconds and finished 0.61 seconds ahead of ...
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 ...
