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 ...
Olympic champion Nao Kodaira won the first of two women's 500-meter races at a World Cup round in Norway on Saturday to continue her two-year undefeated run over the distance. Kodaira, who won her 37th consecutive race in the 500, clocked 37.25 seconds at the ...
Chinese speedskating legend Yang Yang finds her calling on road to 2022 Beijing Winter Games
She was China's first Winter Games gold medalist, a two-time Olympic champion and regarded as one of the finest short-track speedskaters of all time. Few know better than Yang Yang what it takes to succeed at the pinnacle of sport. Now retired, the 42-year-old is harnessing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Putting Japan's Olympic success into words
Team Japan amassed 13 medals in Pyeongchang, its best ever Winter Games medal haul.
