Miho Takagi (speed skater)

Miho Takagi
nation	Japan
birthday	22nd May 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Makubetsu , Japan
size	163 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 5 × 5 × 4 × JWM medals 5 × 6 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang Team tracking silver 2018 Pyeongchang 1500 m bronze 2018 Pyeongchang 1000 m  Individual distance world championships gold 2015 Heerenveen Team tracking silver 2016 Kolomna Team tracking bronze 2016 Kolomna Mass start silver 2017 Gangneung Team tracking bronze 2017 Gangneung 1500 m gold 2019 Inzell Team tracking silver 2019 Inzell 1500 m gold 2020 Salt Lake City Team tracking bronze 2020 Salt Lake City 1500 m  All around world championships bronze 2017 Hamar All-around gold 2018 Amsterdam All-around silver 2019 Calgary All-around  Sprint World Championships silver 2019 Heerenveen sprint gold 2020 Hamar sprint  Winter Asian Games bronze 2011 Astana Team tracking gold 2017 Obihiro 1500 m gold 2017 Obihiro 3000 m gold 2017 Obihiro Mass start silver 2017 Obihiro 1000 m  Speed ​​skating junior world championship silver 2009 Zakopane Team tracking silver 2010 Moscow Team tracking silver 2011 Seinäjoki Team tracking gold 2012 Obihiro 1000 m gold 2012 Obihiro All-around silver 2012 Obihiro Team tracking bronze 2012 Obihiro 2 × 500 m gold 2013 Klobenstein 1500 m gold 2013 Klobenstein All-around gold 2013 Klobenstein Team tracking silver 2013 Klobenstein 1000 m silver 2013 Klobenstein 3000 m
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup 2010/11  World Cup victories 26 (including 11 individual wins)  Grand toilet 1. ( 2017/18 )  Total toilet 1000 2. ( 2016/17 , 2018/19 )  Total toilet 1500 1. (2017/18)  Total toilet 3000/5000 9. (2017/18)  Total toilet mass start 4. ( 2015/16 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1000 meters 1 8th 2  1500 meters 9 5 1  3000 meters 1 0 1  Team competition 15th 3 0  Mass start 0 0 1
last change: March 8, 2020

Miho Takagi ( Japanese 高木 美 帆 , Takagi Miho ; born May 22, 1994 in Makubetsu on Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese speed skater.

Career

At the Junior World Championships 2009 in Zakopane ( Poland ) she was able to achieve second place with the Japanese team.

Her greatest success so far is her qualification for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games as the youngest Japanese speed skater of all time at the age of 15. She was able to achieve 23rd place in the individual competitions over 1500 meters and 35th place over 1000 meters. She was also a replacement for the Japanese team, which was ultimately decorated with silver . In 2010 Takagi attended Satsunai Middle School ( Tokachi Sub-Prefecture ). In 2011 she won the silver medal in the team run and the bronze medal over 2 × 500 m at the speed skating junior world championships. 2012 and 2013 she won the gold medal in the all-around competition, in 2012 the gold medal over 1000 m and the silver medal in the team run and in 2013 the gold medal over 1500 and in the team run as well as two silver medals over 1000 and 3000 m at the speed skating junior world championships.

Together with her sister Nana Takagi and Ayaka Kikuchi , she won the team pursuit gold medal at the 2015 World Speed ​​Skating Individual Distance Championships and finished fourth in the mass start .

In the 2015/16 season, Takagi won her first World Cup victories in the team pursuit in Inzell and two in Heerenveen . In addition, she was third in the mass start in Heerenveen. At the 2016 World Individual Distance Championships in Kolomna , she won the bronze medal in the mass start and the silver medal in the team pursuit. At the beginning of March 2016 she was sixth at the all- around world championship in Berlin . In the 2016/17 season she won five World Cups, two of them in singles and also came second twice and third three times. She thus reached third place in the World Cup over 1500 m and second place in the World Cup over 1000 m and in the overall World Cup. In February 2017, she won the bronze medal in the 1500 m and the silver medal in the team pursuit at the individual distance world championships in Gangwon . At the subsequent Asian Winter Games in Obihiro , she won the silver medal over 1000 m and the gold medal over 1500 m, 3000 m and in the mass start. At the all-around world championship in Hamar in early March 2017 , she was third. In the following season she won ten times in the World Cup, including six times in the individual, winning the overall World Cup and the World Cup over 1500 m. At the season highlight, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won the gold medal in the team pursuit, the silver medal over the 1500 meter distance and the bronze medal over the 1000 meter distance. In March 2018 she won the gold medal at the all- around world championships in Amsterdam .

In the 2018/19 season Takagi won three World Cup victories in the team pursuit, one in the team sprint and two over 1500 m. In addition, she was second four times over 1000 m and second twice over 1500 m and thus took second place in the overall World Cup over 1000 m and over 1500 m. At the 2019 World Speed ​​Skating Championships in Inzell , she won the silver medal in the 1500 m and the gold medal in the team pursuit. In addition, she was there sixth over 3000 m and fourth over 1000 m. At the end of February 2019, she won the silver medal at the Sprint World Championship in Heerenveen . She also won the silver medal at the 2019 All Around World Championship in Calgary .

Takagi is Japanese champion over 1000 m (2018, 2019), over 1500 m (2017, 2018, 2019), over 3000 m (2017, 2018, 2019) and in the four-way fight (2016, 2017).

Personal bests

• 500 m 37.22 sec. (installed on March 2, 2019 in Calgary)
• 1000 m 1: 11.71 min. (installed on March 9, 2019 in Salt Lake City)
• 1500 m 1: 49.83 min. (installed on March 10, 2019 in Salt Lake City)
• 3000 m 3: 57.09 min. (installed on December 1, 2017 in Calgary)
• 5000 m 7: 02.72 min. (installed on March 3, 2019 in Calgary)

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2010 Vancouver : 2nd place team pursuit, 23rd place 1500 m, 35th place 1000 m
• 2018 Pyeongchang : 1st place team pursuit, 2nd place 1500 m, 3rd place 1000 m

Individual distance world championships

• 2011 Inzell : 4th place team pursuit, 12th place 1500 m, 18th place 1000 m
• 2012 Heerenveen : 7th place team pursuit, 9th place 1500 m, 16th place 1000 m
• 2013 Sochi : 7th place team pursuit, 13th place 1500 m
• 2015 Heerenveen : 1st place team pursuit, 4th place mass start
• 2016 Kolomna : 2nd place team pursuit, 3rd place mass start, 6th place 3000 m, 8th place 1500 m, 8th place 1000 m
• 2017 Gangwon : 2nd place team pursuit, 3rd place 1500 m, 6th place 1000 m, 8th place 3000 m, 21st place mass start
• 2019 Inzell : 1st place team pursuit, 2nd place 1500 m, 4th place 1000 m, 6th place 3000 m
• 2020 Salt Lake City : 1st place team pursuit, 3rd place 1000 m, 4th place 1500 m

Sprint World Championships

• 2011 Heerenveen : 19th place sprint all-around
• 2012 Calgary : 19th place sprint all-around
• 2019 Heerenveen : 2nd place sprint all-around
• 2020 Hamar : 1st place sprint all-around

All-around world championships

• 2014 Heerenveen : 12th place in the small four-way fight
• 2015 Calgary : 11th place Small Quadruple
• 2016 Berlin : 6th place in the small four-way fight
• 2017 Hamar : 3rd place in the small four-way fight
• 2018 Amsterdam : 1st place in the small four-way fight
• 2019 Calgary : 2nd place Small Quadruple

World Cup victories

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	3rd December 2016	Astana	1000 m
2.	4th December 2016	Astana	1500 m
3.	November 11, 2017	Heerenveen	1500 m
4th	18th November 2017	Stavanger	1500 m
5.	1st December 2017	Calgary	3000 m
6th	3rd December 2017	Calgary	1500 m
7th	December 9, 2017	Salt Lake City	1500 m
8th.	18th March 2018	Minsk	1500 m
9.	December 8, 2018	Tomaszów Mazowiecki	1500 m
10.	March 10, 2019	Salt Lake City	1500 m
11.	February 8, 2020	Calgary	1500 m

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	5th December 2015	Inzell	Team tracking 1
2.	December 12, 2015	Heerenveen	Team tracking 2
3.	March 12, 2016	Heerenveen	Team tracking 1
4th	3rd December 2016	Astana	Team tracking 1
5.	December 9, 2016	Heerenveen	Team tracking 3
6th	March 11, 2017	Heerenveen	Team tracking 1
7th	November 11, 2017	Heerenveen	Team tracking 3
8th.	2nd December 2017	Calgary	Team tracking 2
9.	December 8, 2017	Salt Lake City	Team tracking 3
10.	17th March 2018	Minsk	Team tracking 4
11.	16th November 2018	Obihiro	Team tracking 3
12.	23rd November 2018	Tomakomai	Team tracking 3
13	7th December 2018	Tomaszów Mazowiecki	Team tracking 3
14th	December 9, 2018	Tomaszów Mazowiecki	Team sprint 5
15th	15th December 2019	Nagano	Team tracking 3

¹With Nana Takagi and Misaki Oshigiri .

²With Ayaka Kikuchi and Nana Takagi.

³With Nana Takagi and Ayano Satō .

^4th With Ayano Satō and Ayaka Kikuchi.

⁵With Konami Soga and Ayano Satō.

Web links

• Profile at Speedskatingnews

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NBC-Olympics: Takagi, 15, makes Japan's Olympic team ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ NBC-Olympics: Miho Takagi ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Vancouver 2010: Speed ​​Skating, Ladies' Team Pursuit