Sara Takanashi – wikipedia

Sara takanashi
Sara takanashi in seefeld (2019)
Nation	Japan  Japan
Birthday	October 8, 1996 (26 years)
Place of birth	KAMIKAWA, JAPAN
Size	152 cm
Profession	Sports student
Career
National ball	since 2009
Status	active
Medal mirror
Ski jumping World Cup / A-Class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	0 December 3, 2011
World Cup victory (single)	63  (Details)
World Cup victory (team)	0 3  (Details)
Overall World Cup	0 first. (2012/13, 2013/14, 2015/16, 2016/17)
Raw Air	0 2. (2022)
Blue Bird Tour	0 2. (2021)
Podium first. 2. 3. Jumping 63 30 22 Team jump 2 first first  Mixed-Teamspringen first first 0
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	15. August 2012
Grand Prix victory (single)	26  (Details)
Grand Prix victory (team)	0 3  (Details)
Overall rating Grand Prix	0 first. (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Podium first. 2. 3. Jumping 26 5 2  Mixed-Teamspringen 3 3 0
SkiSprung-Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	0 March 3, 2009
COC victory (single)	0 9  (Details)
Overall rating COC	0 2. (2013/14)
Podium first. 2. 3. Jumping 9 7 3
Last change: February 5, 2023

Sara takanashi (jap. Takanashi Sara , TAKANASHI SARA , * October 8, 1996 in Kamikawa, Hokkaidō Prefecture) is a Japanese ski jumper. She was five times junior world champion and vice world champion in 2013 and 2021. The sports student is by far the most successful athlete in the World Ski jumping World Cup and thus also exceeds the male record winner Gregor Schlierenzauer (53 individual victories).

On March 3, 2009, Takanashi made her debut in the SkiSprung continental Cup for the season finale of the 2008/09 season in Zaō. In both jumps, she managed to reach the dot length. She therefore ended her first season in 54th place in the overall ranking. In the follow -up season, she was able to constantly increase her performance and regularly reached placements among the top ten. At the 2010 Junior World Cup in Hinterzarten, she reached seventh place from the normal hill. On March 2, 2010, she made the podium for the first time with third place in Zaō. She finished the 2009/10 season in 15th place in the Continental Cup overall ranking.

On December 3, 2011, she made her debut in the newly created women’s World Cup in Lillehammer and became fifth. She celebrated her first World Cup victory in Yamagata on March 3, 2012. At the 2012 Olympic Youth Winter Games in Innsbruck, she won gold in individual jumping. The premiere of the Mixed team competition as part of the summer Grand Prix on August 14, 2012 in Couchevel won Takanashi with the Japanese team. ^[first]

On January 24, 2013, Sara Takanashi won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Liberec. ^[2] She defended her title after she was successful in Erzurum in 2012.

At the Nordic World Ski World Championships in Val di Fiemme, she won the gold medal in the mixed team competition with the Japanese team. ^[3] Two days earlier, in the individual competition behind the American Sarah Hendrickson, she took second place. ^[4]

With a total of eight World Cup victories, she won the World Cup overall ranking of the 2012/13 season. At the Summer Grand Prix 2013, Takanashi won in four out of six competitions and again the Grand Prix rating. Also in 2014, 2015 and 2016, she was able to win the overall Grand Prix ranking.

On January 28, 2014, she won the junior world championship title in the Junior World Cup in Val di Fiemme for the third time in a row, ^[5] And just jumped the team title 2 days later with their teammates. ^[6] With now 5 titles, in individual and team competitions, she is the most successful athlete at Junior World Championships in ski jumping alongside Heinz Kuttin. Takanashi is the only person to have won three single gold medals at this tournament.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics, she only took fourth place, but Takanashi won 15 of the 18 competitions in the World Cup season at that time and was on the podium for all jumping. In the 2014/15 season, she achieved second place in the overall World Cup behind Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, winning six daily victories. At the Nordic World Ski World Championships in Falun in Swedish, she was again unable to win a medal in fourth place. Together with Yūki Itō, Noriaki Kasai and Taku Takeuchi, she won the bronze medal in the mixed team competition.

In the 2015/16 following season, Takanashi won the overall World Cup for the third time in four years. She achieved 14 wins in 17 competitions and was just not on the podium. In the 2016/17 season, Takanashi’s dominance declined a little again, ^[7] Nevertheless, after 17 out of 19 planned competitions she became an overall World Cup winner. ^[8] At the Nordic World Ski World Championships in Lahti, she was again unable to win the gold medal in the individual competition, but had to be satisfied with bronze behind Carina Vogt and Yūki Itō. ^[9] In the mixed team competition, she formed the Japanese team together with Yūki ITō, Taku Takeuchi and Daiki Itō. The quartet won the bronze medal behind the teams from Germany and Austria.

In the 2017/18 season, Sara Takanashi’s dominance was completely broken. She was able to achieve her first two season victories in the team competition. On December 16, 2017, the first team competition took place in Hinterzarten. Together with Yūki Itō, Kaori Iwabuchi and Yūka Setō, she was able to win this competition. ^[ten] On January 20, she was also able to win the second team competition in Yamagata at home with the Japanese team. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, she took third place behind Maren Lundby from Norway and the German Katharina Althaus and was able to win her first Olympic medal. ^[11] At the World Cup final in Oberstdorf on March 24th and 25th, 2018, she scored her only two individual World Cup victories of the season and the 54th and 55th of her career. With the 54th victory on the first day, she exceeded the Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer (53 World Cup victory) and thus became the most successful ski jumper, measured by individual World Cups. She ended the season for the first time since 2012 as the third in the overall World Cup after four victories (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017) and a second place (2015).

In the 2018/19 season, she achieved the 56th individual World Cup victory on the normal hill in Ljubno on February 10th. She ended a series of six wins by Norwegian Maren Lundby. At the 2019 skiing championships in Seefeld in Tirol, she was sixth in the individual competition and with the Japanese women’s team and finished fifth in the final mixed team competition.

At the 2021 world championships in Oberstdorf, she was second in the individual competitions of the large and third by the normal hill. With the Japanese women’s team, she became fourth and finished fifth in the mixed team competition. At the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, she became fourth with the Japanese mixed team and in the individual competition.

World Cup victory in singles [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

World Cup victory in the team [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

No.	Datum	Location	Type
0 first.	December 6, 2013	Norway Lillehammer	Normal hill Mixed-Team
0 2.	December 16, 2017	Germany Rear	Normal hill Team
0 3.	January 20, 2018	Japan  Yamagata	Normal hill Team

Grand Prix victory in singles [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Grand Prix victory in the team [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

No.	Datum	Location	Type
0 first.	14. August 2012	France  Courchevel	Normal hill Mixed-Team
0 2.	July 27, 2013	Germany Rear	Normal hill Mixed-Team
0 3.	8. September 2018	Russia Tchaikovski	Large hill Mixed-Team

Continental Cup victory in singles [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

World Cup positions [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Grand Prix positions [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Continental Cup positions [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Ski jump record [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Location	Widening	set up on	Record up to
Austria  Ramsau	94,5 m (HS: 98 m)	February 19, 2011	February 19, 2011
Austria  Ramsau	96,5 m (HS: 98 m)	February 19, 2011	February 20, 2011
Austria  Ramsau	97,5 m (HS: 98 m)	February 20, 2011	February 20, 2011
Austria  Ramsau	102,0 m (HS: 98 m)	February 20, 2011	current
Austria Seefeld in Tyrol	76,0 m (HS: 75 m)	February 12, 2012	February 12, 2012
Austria Seefeld in Tyrol	79,5 m (HS: 75 m)	February 12, 2012	current
Japan  Yamagata	102,5 m (HS: 100 m)	March 3, 2012	January 22, 2016
Norway Oslo	108,0 m (HS: 106 m)	March 9, 2012	current
Kazakhstan  Almaty	105,0 m (HS: 106 m)	22. September 2012	22. September 2012
Kazakhstan  Almaty	105,5 m (HS: 106 m)	22. September 2012	23. September 2012
Kazakhstan  Almaty	107,0 m (HS: 106 m)	23. September 2012	current
Russia Tchaikovski	104,0 m (HS: 102 m)	January 4, 2013	current
Germany Rear	109,5 m (HS: 108 m)	January 12, 2013	current
Czech Republic Liberec	104,5 m (HS: 100 m)	January 23, 2013	January 26, 2013
Norway Trondheim	105,0 m (HS: 105 m)	15 March 2013	current
Norway Oslo	134,0 m (HS: 134 m)	March 17, 2013	February 4, 2016
Germany Rear	104,0 m (HS: 108 m)	July 26, 2013	July 27, 2013
Germany Rear	105,5 m (HS: 108 m)	July 27, 2013	July 28, 2018
Russia Nischni Tagil	93,0 m (HS: 100 m)	13. September 2013	13. September 2013
Russia Nischni Tagil	96,0 m (HS: 100 m)	13. September 2013	13. September 2013
Russia Nischni Tagil	96,5 m (HS: 100 m)	13. September 2013	13. September 2013
Russia Nischni Tagil	98,5 m (HS: 100 m)	13. September 2013	current
Japan Sapporo	106,0 m (HS: 103 m)	January 11, 2014	current
Slovenia Planica	102,5 m (HS: 104 m)	January 26, 2014	current
Romania Râşnov	100,5 m (HS: 100 m)	March 1, 2014	current
Slovenia Planica	135,0 m (HS: 139 m)	March 22, 2014	current
Russia Tchaikovski	103,5 m (HS: 102 m)	4. September 2015	10. September 2016
Russia Nischni Tagil	98,0 m (HS: 100 m)	December 13, 2015	December 13, 2015
Russia Nischni Tagil	99,0 m (HS: 100 m)	December 13, 2015	December 10, 2016
Japan  Yamagata	106,0 m (HS: 103 m)	January 22, 2016	current
Germany Oberstdorf	104,0 m (HS: 106 m)	January 30, 2016	January 30, 2016
Germany Oberstdorf	107,0 m (HS: 106 m)	January 30, 2016	February 25, 2021
Norway Oslo	137,5 m (HS: 134 m)	February 4, 2016	current
Austria  Hinzenbach	98,0 m (HS: 94 m)	February 7, 2016	current
Finland Loose	96,5 m (HS: 100 m)	February 19, 2016	February 19, 2016
Finland Loose	99,5 m (HS: 100 m)	February 19, 2016	current
Kazakhstan  Almaty	107,0 m (HS: 106 m)	February 27, 2016	February 28, 2016
Russia Tchaikovski	106,5 m (HS: 102 m)	10. September 2016	10. September 2017
Russia Nischni Tagil	102,0 m (HS: 100 m)	December 10, 2016	current
Germany Oberstdorf	127,5 m (HS: 137 m)	January 6, 2017	January 7, 2017
Germany Oberstdorf	131,0 m (HS: 137 m)	January 7, 2017	January 7, 2017
Russia Tchaikovski	108,0 m (HS: 102 m)	10. September 2017	current
Germany Rear	108,0 m (HS: 108 m)	July 26, 2019	current

1. ↑ Japan first winner in the mixed competition. In: Berkutschi.com. 14. August 2012, accessed on June 3, 2015 .
2. ↑ Strong thanks Ist Junioren-Weltmeister. In: Skispringen.com. January 24, 2013, accessed on June 3, 2015 .
3. ↑ Japan first mixed team world champion. In: Berkutschi.com. February 24, 2013, accessed on June 3, 2015 .
4. ↑ Sarah Hendrickson crowns the world champion. In: Berkutschi.com. February 22, 2013, accessed on June 3, 2015 .
5. ↑ Sara Takanashi votes to the junior world champion. In: Skispringen.com. January 28, 2014, accessed on June 3, 2015 .
6. ↑ Junior World Cup: Japan wins team competition. In: Skispringen.com. January 29, 2014, accessed on June 3, 2015 .
7. ↑ Takanashi fetches 50th World Cup victory, Iraschko-Stolz third , APA message on derStandard.at from January 29, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2017.
8. ↑ Takanashi fetches the fourth overall World Cup victory , APA message on derStandard.at from February 15, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2017.
9. ↑ Ski jumper Vogt wins gold again. SPIEGEL ONLINE, February 24, 2017, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
10. ↑ Sebastian Theuner: Japan wins the first team competition of the ski jumpers in Hinterzarten. skispringen.com, December 16, 2017, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
11. ↑ Althaus wins silver – Lundby flies to gold. Kicker, February 12, 2018, accessed on March 6, 2018 .