Sara Takanashi

Sara Takanashi (高梨 沙羅, Takanashi Sara) (born 8 October 1996) is a Japanese ski jumper. She is one of the most successful female ski jumpers to date, as well as one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport, having won four World Cup overall titles (an all-time female record), seven World Championship medals, and a Winter Olympic medal. As of March 2022, Takanashi holds the record for the most individual World Cup wins, male or female, with 63.[2] She also has three Guinness World Records certificates for the most podium finishes in the Ski Jumping World Cup, the most individual victories by a female in the Ski Jumping World Cup, and the most Ski Jumping World Cup individual victories in a career (overall).[3]

Sara Takanashi
Takanashi in 2017
CountryJapan
Born (1996-10-08) 8 October 1996
Kamikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)[1]
Ski clubKuraray
World Cup career
Seasons2012–present
Individual wins63
Team wins3
Indiv. podiums113
Team podiums6
Indiv. starts173
Team starts12
Overall titles4 (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
Updated on 13 March 2022.

Career

Takanashi placed sixth in the 2011 World Championship in Oslo.[4] In the World Cup she debuted on 3 December 2011 in Lillehammer where she took fifth place.

During the 2013–14 season, Takanashi won 15 out of 18 individual World Cup ski jumping events. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, she was ranked third after her first jump in the medal round, but dropped to fourth place in the final round and missed the podium.[5]

In the 2015–16 season she won her third World Cup overall title.[6]

Takanashi also won the first-ever women's World Cup team competition in Hinterzarten on 16 December 2017. Her teammates included Yuki Ito, Kaori Iwabuchi and Yuka Seto.[7]

She won a bronze medal in the individual normal hill event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.[8]

Major tournament results

Winter Olympics

Year Place NH Mixed NH
2014 Sochi 4 N/A
2018 Pyeongchang N/A
2022 Beijing 4 4

FIS World Nordic Ski Championships

Year Place NH LH Team NH Mixed NH
2011 Oslo 6 N/A N/A N/A
2013 Val di Fiemme N/A N/A
2015 Falun 4 N/A N/A
2017 Lahti N/A N/A
2019 Seefeld 6 N/A 6 5
2021 Oberstdorf 4 5

World Cup

Standings

Season Overall ST AK L3 RA BB
2011–12 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2012–13 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2013–14 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2014–15 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2015–16 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2016–17 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2017–18 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2018–19 4 N/A N/A 28 7 6
2019–20 4 N/A N/A N/A 6 N/A
2020–21 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2021–22 5 33 N/A N/A

Individual wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2011–123 March 2012   ZaōYamagata HS100NH
2 2012–1324 November 2012   LillehammerLysgårdsbakken HS100NH
3 14 December 2012   RamsauW90-Mattensprunganlage HS98NH
4 5 January 2013   SchonachLangenwaldschanze HS106NH
5 13 January 2013   HinterzartenRothaus-Schanze HS108NH
6 10 February 2013   ZaōYamagata HS100NH
7 10 February 2013   ZaōYamagata HS100NH
8 16 February 2013   Ljubno ob SavinjiSavina Ski Jumping Center HS95NH
9 17 February 2013   Ljubno ob SavinjiSavina Ski Jumping Center HS95NH
10 2013–147 December 2013   LillehammerLysgårdsbakken HS100NH
11 21 December 2013   HinterzartenRothaus-Schanze HS108NH
12 22 December 2013   HinterzartenRothaus-Schanze HS108NH
13 3 January 2014   ChaykovskySnezhinka HS106NH
14 11 January 2014   SapporoMiyanomori HS100NH
15 12 January 2014   SapporoMiyanomori HS100NH
16 18 January 2014   ZaōYamagata HS100NH
17 19 January 2014   ZaōYamagata HS100NH
18 1 February 2014   HinzenbachAigner-Schanze HS94NH
19 2 February 2014   HinzenbachAigner-Schanze HS94NH
20 1 March 2014   RâșnovTrambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100NH
21 2 March 2014   RâșnovTrambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100NH
22 8 March 2014   OsloHolmenkollbakken HS134LH
23 15 March 2014   FalunLugnet HS98NH
24 22 March 2014   PlanicaBloudkova velikanka HS139LH
25 2014–1510 January 2015   SapporoMiyanomori HS100NH
26 11 January 2015   SapporoMiyanomori HS100NH
27 8 February 2015   RâșnovTrambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100NH
28 14 February 2015   Ljubno ob SavinjiSavina Ski Jumping Center HS95NH
29 15 February 2015   Ljubno ob SavinjiSavina Ski Jumping Center HS95NH
30 13 March 2015   OsloHolmenkollbakken HS134LH
31 2015–164 December 2015   LillehammerLysgårdsbakken HS100NH
32 13 December 2015   Nizhny TagilTramplin Stork HS97NH
33 16 January 2016   SapporoMiyanomori HS100NH
34 17 January 2016   SapporoMiyanomori HS100NH
35 22 January 2016   ZaōYamagata HS106NH
36 23 January 2016   ZaōYamagata HS106NH
37 30 January 2016   OberstdorfSchattenbergschanze HS106NH
38 31 January 2016   OberstdorfSchattenbergschanze HS106NH
39 4 February 2016   OsloHolmenkollbakken HS134LH
40 6 February 2016   HinzenbachAigner-Schanze HS94NH
41 7 February 2016   HinzenbachAigner-Schanze HS94NH
42 19 February 2016   LahtiSalpausselkä HS100NH
43 27 February 2016   AlmatySunkar HS106NH
44 28 February 2016   AlmatySunkar HS106NH
45 2016–172 December 2016   LillehammerLysgårdsbakken HS100NH
46 3 December 2016   LillehammerLysgårdsbakken HS100NH
47 11 December 2016   Nizhny TagilTramplin Stork HS100NH
48 7 January 2017   OberstdorfSchattenbergschanze HS137LH
49 8 January 2017   OberstdorfSchattenbergschanze HS137LH
50 29 January 2017   RâșnovTrambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100NH
51 4 February 2017   HinzenbachAigner-Schanze HS94NH
52 5 February 2017   HinzenbachAigner-Schanze HS94NH
53 16 February 2017   PyeongchangAlpensia Ski Jumping Centre HS109NH
54 2017–1824 March 2018   OberstdorfSchattenbergschanze HS106NH
55 25 March 2018   OberstdorfSchattenbergschanze HS106NH
56 2018–1910 February 2019   Ljubno ob SavinjiSavina Ski Jumping Center HS94NH
57 2019–209 March 2020   LillehammerLysgårdsbakken HS140LH
58 2020–216 February 2021   HinzenbachAigner-Schanze HS90NH
59 7 February 2021   HinzenbachAigner-Schanze HS90NH
60 19 February 2021   RâșnovTrambulina Valea Cărbunării HS97NH
61 2021–221 January 2022   Ljubno ob SavinjiSavina Ski Jumping Center HS94NH
62 2 March 2022  LillehammerLysgårdsbakken HS140LH
63 6 March 2022  OsloHolmenkollbakken HS134LH

Individual starts

winner (1); second (2); third (3); did not compete (–); disqualified (DQ)
Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Points
2011–12 639
5 17 2 2 2 1 2 2 2
2012–13 1297
1 2 3 1 1 4 2 1 12 5 1 1 1 1 2 2
2013–14 1720
1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2014–15 973
3 1 1 7 3 5 3 8 2 1 1 1 1
2015–16 1610
1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 1 1 1
2016–17 1455
1 1 3 1 1 1 2 4 5 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 2
2017–18 916
4 4 3 3 3 2 4 3 3 4 7 4 4 1 1
2018–19 1190
3 DQ 11 2 3 11 8 2 6 3 7 4 2 2 1 4 3 4 14 6 9 5 3 8
2019–20 785
9 3 4 4 5 2 4 4 9 16 4 4 4 5 1 8
2020–21 862
3 4 7 2 DQ 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 7
2021–22 843
6 5 6 8 5 4 4 5 1 1 4 3 1 4 7

References

  1. "Sara TAKANASHI". Olympic Channel. Archived from the original on 12 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  2. "Athlete: Takanashi Sara – all wins". fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  3. "A Japanese ski jumper breaks record to win 3 Guinness titles". The Indian Express. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  4. "World Ski Championships Oslo (NOR)". fis-ski.com.
  5. Gallagher, Jack (12 February 2014). "Ski jump favorite Takanashi fails to land medal". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  6. "Takanashi wraps up third World Cup title". The Japan Times. 19 February 2016. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  7. "Japan rules in first ever Ladies' Team event". fis-ski.com. 16 December 2017. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  8. Trevelyan, Mark (12 February 2018). "Ski jumping: Norway's Lundby flies through blizzard to take gold". Reuters. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
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