Sara_Takanashi

Sara Takanashi

Sara Takanashi

Japanese ski jumper

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 April 2024, 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]

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Career

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

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

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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

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World Cup

Standings

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Individual wins

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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
2011–12 Lillehammer Hinterzten Hinterzten Val di Fiemme Val di Fiemme Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Oslo
5 17 2 – – – – 2 2 1 2 2 2
2012–13 Lillehammer Sochi Sochi Ramsau am Dachstein Schonach Schonach Hinterzten Hinterzten Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Trondheim Oslo
1 2 3 1 1 4 2 1 12 5 1 1 1 1 2 2
2013–14 Lillehammer Hinterzten Hinterzten Chaykovsky, Perm Krai Chaykovsky, Perm Krai Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Planica Planica Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Râșnov Râșnov Oslo Falun Planica
1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2014–15 Lillehammer Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Oberstdorf Oberstdorf Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Râșnov Râșnov Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Oslo
3 1 1 7 3 5 3 8 2 1 1 1 1
2015–16 Lillehammer Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Oberstdorf Oberstdorf Oslo Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Lahti Almaty Almaty
1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 1 1 1
2016–17 Lillehammer Lillehammer Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Oberstdorf Oberstdorf Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Râșnov Râșnov Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Pyeongchang Pyeongchang Oslo
1 1 3 1 1 1 2 4 5 2 2 1 1 1 – – 2 1 2
2017–18 Lillehammer Lillehammer Lillehammer Hinterzarten Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Râșnov Râșnov Oslo Oberstdorf Oberstdorf
4 4 3 3 3 2 4 3 3 4 7 4 4 1 1
2018–19 Lillehammer Lillehammer Lillehammer Prémanon Prémanon Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Râșnov Râșnov Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Oberstdorf Oberstdorf Oslo Lillehammer Trondheim Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Chaykovsky, Perm Krai Chaykovsky, Perm Krai
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 Lillehammer Lillehammer Klingenthal Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Râșnov Râșnov Oberstdorf Oberstdorf Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Ljubno ob Savinji Oslo Lillehammer
9 3 4 4 5 2 4 4 9 16 4 4 4 5 1 8
2020–21 Ramsau am Dachstein Ljubno ob Savinji Titisee-Neustadt Titisee-Neustadt Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Râșnov Râșnov Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Chaykovsky, Perm Krai Chaykovsky, Perm Krai
3 4 7 2 DQ 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 7
2021–22 Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Lillehammer Lillehammer Klingenthal Klingenthal Ramsau am Dachstein Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Willingen Willingen Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Lillehammer Lillehammer Oslo Oslo Oberhof Oberhof
6 5 6 8 5 4 4 5 1 – – – – 1 4 3 1 4 7
2022–23 Wisła Wisła Lillehammer Lillehammer Titisee-Neustadt Villach Villach Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Zaō Onsen Hinterzarten Hinterzarten Willingen Willingen Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Râșnov Râșnov Oslo Oslo Lillehammer Lillehammer Lahti
6 5 18 16 14 11 14 5 10 11 10 9 30 4 4 3 3 8 11 – – – – 10 11 11
2023–24 Lillehammer Lillehammer Engelberg Engelberg Garmisch-Partenkirchen Oberstdorf Villach Villach Sapporo Sapporo Zaō Onsen Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Willingen Willingen Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Lahti Oslo Oslo Trondheim Trondheim Vikersund Planica
12 6 21 11 6 19 9 11 4 7 11 8 6 2 4 12 9 6 7 10 9 17 6 4

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