Nana Takagi
Nana Takagi in 2018
Personal information
NationalityJapanese
Born (1992-07-02) 2 July 1992
Makubetsu, Japan
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight45 kg (99 lb)
Sport
CountryJapan
SportSpeed skating
EventMass start
ClubNidec Sankyo Corporation
Retired2022
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking14 (mass start)
Medal record
Women's speed skating
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2018 PyeongchangMass start
Gold medal – first place2018 PyeongchangTeam pursuit
Silver medal – second place2022 BeijingTeam pursuit
World Single Distances Championships
Gold medal – first place2015 HeerenveenTeam pursuit
Gold medal – first place2019 InzellTeam pursuit
Gold medal – first place2020 Salt Lake CityTeam pursuit
Silver medal – second place2016 KolomnaTeam pursuit
Silver medal – second place2017 GangneungMass start
Silver medal – second place2017 GangneungTeam pursuit

Nana Takagi (髙木 菜那) (born 2 July 1992) is a Japanese former speed skater who is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.[1]

Career

Takagi has won a pair of silver medals at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships, in two team pursuit events.[2]

She made her World Cup debut in November 2013. As of September 2014, Takagi has one World Cup podium finish, as part of the Japanese team pursuit squad at Heerenveen in 2013–14. Her best individual finish is 5th in a 5000 m race at Astana in 2013–14. Her best overall finish in the World Cup is 14th, in the 2013–14 mass start.[2]

Takagi competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Japan. In the 1500 metres she placed 32nd. She was also part of the Japanese team pursuit squad, which won their semi-final, before losing to the Netherlands in the semi-final and to Russia in the bronze medal final, ending up 4th overall.[3][4]

In 2015 Nana Takagi became a world champion, when in the 2015 World Single Distance Championships she won the gold medal in the team pursuit where she participated together with her sister Miho Takagi and compatriot Ayaka Kikuchi.

In 2018, Takagi was part of the Japanese team that won the Olympics women team pursuit gold medal.[5] Takagi won a second gold medal at the 2018 Olympics in the Women's mass start event.[6]

World Cup podiums

Date Season Location Rank Event[2]
16 March 20142011–12Heerenveen3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Team pursuit

See also

References

  1. ↑ Athlete Profiles – Nidec Sankyo Speed Skating Team
  2. 1 2 3 "SpeedSkatingStats.com Biography".
  3. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nana Takagi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "Nana Takagi". Sochi2014.com. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi. 19 March 2014. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014.
  5. ↑ Fielding, Gus (22 February 2018), "Miho Takagi overjoyed after claiming coveted gold medal in team pursuit", Japan Times
  6. ↑ Jennings, Simon (24 February 2018), "Speed skating: Japan's Takagi surges to mass start gold", Reuters
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