Sara Takanashi

Sara Takanashi 高梨 沙羅
Takanashi in 2014
Country	Japan
Born	8 October 1996 Kamikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Height	1.51 m (4 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)
Ski club	Kuraray
Personal best	141 m (463 ft) Sapporo, 2011
World Cup career
Seasons	2012–present
Individual wins	44
Team wins	1
Indiv. podiums	64
Team podiums	2
Yellow bibs	54
Indiv. starts	73
Team starts	2
Overall titles	3 (2013, 2014, 2016)
Medal record Ladies' ski jumping FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 Val di Fiemme Mixed NH 2013 Val di Fiemme Individual NH 2015 Falun Mixed NH
Updated on 28 February 2016.

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 athletes in the sport, having won three World Cup titles (2013, 2014 and 2016), three medals at the World Championships (2013 and 2015), and has won 44 individual World Cup competitions.

Career

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

Takanashi is the current women's record holder of the Kiremitliktepe Ski Jump (HS109) in Erzurum, Turkey with 110.5 m set at the 2012 FIS Junior World Ski Championships on 21 February.^[1]

Takanashi has a record of 30 World Cup victories followed by Sarah Hendrickson's record of 13 wins.^[2][3][4]

During the 2013/14 season in the lead up to the Winter Olympics, Takanashi won 15 out of 18 individual World Cup ski jumping events. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, she was ranked third after her first jump in the medal round with a jump of 100 meters for 124.1 points, but her second jump was only 98.5-meters, dropping her to 4th overall in the final standings and missing the podium.^[5]

In the 2015/16 she won her third and record world cup overall title four events before the end of the season.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
2015/16

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Size
1	2011/12	3 March 2012	Zaō	Yamagata HS 100	NH
2	2012/13	24 November 2012	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS 100	NH
3		14 December 2012	Ramsau	W90-Mattensprunganlage HS 98	NH
4		5 January 2013	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze HS 106	NH
5		13 January 2013	Hinterzarten	Rothaus-Schanze HS 108	NH
6		10 February 2013	Zaō	Yamagata HS 100	NH
7		10 February 2013	Zaō	Yamagata HS 100	NH
8		16 February 2013	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS 95	NH
9		17 February 2013	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS 95	NH
10	2013/14	7 December 2013	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS 100	NH
11		21 Dec 2013	Hinterzarten	Rothaus-Schanze HS 108	NH
12		22 Dec 2013	Hinterzarten	Rothaus-Schanze HS 108	NH
13		3 January 2014	Chaykovsky	Snezhinka HS 106	NH
14		11 January 2014	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS 100	NH
15		12 January 2014	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS 100	NH
16		18 January 2014	Zaō	Yamagata HS 100	NH
17		19 January 2014	Zaō	Yamagata HS 100	NH
18		1 February 2014	Hinzenbach	Langenwaldschanze HS 94	NH
19		2 February 2014	Hinzenbach	Langenwaldschanze HS 94	NH
20		1 March 2014	Râșnov	Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS 100	NH
21		2 March 2014	Râșnov	Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS 100	NH
22		8 March 2014	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS 134	LH
23		15 March 2014	Falun	Lugnet HS 98 (night)	NH
24		22 March 2014	Planica	Bloudkova velikanka HS 139	LH
25	2014/15	10 January 2015	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS 100	NH
26		11 January 2015	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS 100	NH
27		8 February 2015	Râșnov	Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS 100	NH
28		14 February 2015	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS 95	NH
29		15 February 2015	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS 95	NH
30		13 March 2015	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS 134	LH
31	2015/16	4 December 2015	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS 100 (night)	NH
32		13 December 2015	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS 97	NH
33		16 January 2016	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS 100	NH
34		17 January 2016	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS 100	NH
35		22 January 2016	Zaō	Yamagata HS 106 (night)	NH
36		23 January 2016	Zaō	Yamagata HS 106 (night)	NH
37		30 January 2016	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS 106	NH
38		31 January 2016	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS 106	NH
39		4 February 2016	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS 134 (night)	LH
40		6 February 2016	Hinzenbach	Aigner-Schanze HS 94	NH
41		7 February 2016	Hinzenbach	Aigner-Schanze HS 94	NH
42		19 February 2016	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS 100	NH
43		27 February 2016	Almaty	Sunkar HS 106	NH
44		28 February 2016	Almaty	Sunkar HS 106	NH

Inidividual starts (73)

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	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

References

1. "Erzurum Kiremitliktepe-TürkTelekom Ski Jumping Towers". Ski Jumping Hill Archive. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
2. "Takanashi gets another World Cup win". The Sydney Morning Herald. 12 January 2014.
3. "Japan's Takanashi lifts 7th Ski Jumping World Cup". Bangkok Post. 18 Jan 2014.
4. "Takanashi wins women's ski jump World Cup event". Ctpost.com. 19 January 2014.
5. "Ski jump favorite Takanashi fails to land medal". The Japan Times (The Japan Times). 2014-02-12. Retrieved 2016-01-24.

External links

• Sara Takanashi at the International Ski Federation
• Official website (Japanese)