Sara Takanashi

Sara Takanashi 高梨 沙羅
Takanashi in Hinzenbach, 2017
Country	Japan
Born	(1996-10-08) 8 October 1996 Kamikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Height	1.51 m (4 ft 11 in)
Ski club	Kuraray
Personal best	141 m (463 ft) Sapporo, 10 January 2011
World Cup career
Seasons	2012–present
Individual wins	53
Team wins	1
Indiv. podiums	79
Team podiums	2
Yellow bibs	74
Indiv. starts	90
Team starts	2
Overall titles	4 (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
Medal record Women's ski jumping World Championships 2013 Val di Fiemme Mixed NH 2013 Val di Fiemme Individual NH 2015 Falun Mixed NH 2017 Lahti Individual NH 2017 Lahti Mixed NH
Updated on 12 March 2017.

Sara Takanashi (高梨 沙羅, Takanashi Sara) (born 8 October 1996) is a Japanese ski jumper. She is the most successful female ski jumper to date, as well as one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport, having won four World Cup titles (an all-time record shared with Matti Nykänen and Adam Małysz) and five World Championship medals. In her six-year World Cup career, Takanashi has never finished lower than third in the overall season-long standings. As of March 2017 she also shares the record for most individual World Cup victories—53—with Gregor Schlierenzauer.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

In the 2015/16 season 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	03 !
2012/13	01 !
2013/14	01 !
2014/15	02 !
2015/16	01 !
2016/17	01 !

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2011/12	3 March 2012	Zaō	Yamagata HS100	NH
2	2012/13	24 November 2012	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS100	NH
3		14 December 2012	Ramsau	W90-Mattensprunganlage HS98	NH
4		5 January 2013	Schonach	Langenwaldschanze HS106	NH
5		13 January 2013	Hinterzarten	Rothaus-Schanze HS108	NH
6		10 February 2013	Zaō	Yamagata HS100	NH
7		10 February 2013	Zaō	Yamagata HS100	NH
8		16 February 2013	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95	NH
9		17 February 2013	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95	NH
10	2013/14	7 December 2013	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS100	NH
11		21 Dec 2013	Hinterzarten	Rothaus-Schanze HS108	NH
12		22 Dec 2013	Hinterzarten	Rothaus-Schanze HS108	NH
13		3 January 2014	Chaykovsky	Snezhinka HS106	NH
14		11 January 2014	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS100	NH
15		12 January 2014	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS100	NH
16		18 January 2014	Zaō	Yamagata HS100	NH
17		19 January 2014	Zaō	Yamagata HS100	NH
18		1 February 2014	Hinzenbach	Langenwaldschanze HS94	NH
19		2 February 2014	Hinzenbach	Langenwaldschanze HS94	NH
20		1 March 2014	Râșnov	Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100	NH
21		2 March 2014	Râșnov	Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100	NH
22		8 March 2014	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134	LH
23		15 March 2014	Falun	Lugnet HS98 (night)	NH
24		22 March 2014	Planica	Bloudkova velikanka HS139	LH
25	2014/15	10 January 2015	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS100	NH
26		11 January 2015	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS100	NH
27		8 February 2015	Râșnov	Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100	NH
28		14 February 2015	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95	NH
29		15 February 2015	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95	NH
30		13 March 2015	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134	LH
31	2015/16	4 December 2015	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS100 (night)	NH
32		13 December 2015	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS97	NH
33		16 January 2016	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS100	NH
34		17 January 2016	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS100	NH
35		22 January 2016	Zaō	Yamagata HS106 (night)	NH
36		23 January 2016	Zaō	Yamagata HS106 (night)	NH
37		30 January 2016	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS106	NH
38		31 January 2016	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS106	NH
39		4 February 2016	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134 (night)	LH
40		6 February 2016	Hinzenbach	Aigner-Schanze HS94	NH
41		7 February 2016	Hinzenbach	Aigner-Schanze HS94	NH
42		19 February 2016	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS100	NH
43		27 February 2016	Almaty	Sunkar HS106	NH
44		28 February 2016	Almaty	Sunkar HS106	NH
45	2016/17	2 December 2016	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS100 (night)	NH
46		3 December 2016	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS100 (night)	NH
47		11 December 2016	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS100 (night)	NH
48		7 January 2017	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS137 (night)	LH
49		8 January 2017	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS137 (night)	LH
50		29 January 2017	Râșnov	Trambulina Valea Cărbunări HS100	NH
51		4 February 2017	Hinzenbach	Aigner-Schanze HS94	NH
52		5 February 2017	Hinzenbach	Aigner-Schanze HS94	NH
53		16 February 2017	Pyeongchang	Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre HS109	NH

Inidividual starts (90)

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sara Takanashi.

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