is a Japanese

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. She has won a total of seven medals at the Olympics, two of them gold.

Career

At the age of 15, Takagi represented

Japan at the 2010 Winter Olympics Japan participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ninety-four athletes participated in all sports except ice hockey. Japanese athletes earned five medals at the games, including three silver and two bronze, sho ...

, finishing 35th in the women's 1000 metres and 23rd in the

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. In 2012 and 2013, she won the

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. After participating in several world cup and world championship events, she became a world champion when in the 2015 World Single Distance Championships she won the gold medal in the

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where she participated together with her sister

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and compatriot Ayaka Kikuchi. In competition in Salt Lake City of

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, she with Nana & Ayano Sato won women's team pursuit with the world record of 2 minutes & 50.87 seconds. In the 2018 Olympics, Takagi won the silver medal in the women's 1500-metre speed skating event and the bronze medal in the women's 1000-metre speed skating event. Takagi was also part of the Nippon team that won the 2018 Olympics women's team pursuit with a time of 2 minutes & 53.89 seconds, the Olympic record & the sea-level world best. She won the women's competition at the 2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships. In the 2017–18 world cup, the Nippon team she was part of won all women's team pursuit competitions of the world cup & became a 3-continuous-season overall world cup winner in the pursuit & she became overall winner in women's 1500 metres & allround. She finished second in the 2019 World Allround Speed Skating Championships. Takagi set a world record in the women's 1500 meters in 2019 with a time of 1:49.83 in Salt Lake City, Utah. At

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Bei ...

, Takagi earned three silver medals in

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, 500m, and

. At the point when she earned her third medal in the 2022 games, which was her sixth overall, she became the Japanese female athlete with the biggest number of Olympic medals earned, surpassing three other athletes,

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and

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, and

Ryoko Tani is a retired Japanese female judoka and a politician. Competing in the extra-lightweight (48 kg) class, she won a record seven world titles and five Olympic medals including two golds at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. After her retirement, ...

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, all of those who have earned 5 Olympic medals each in summer games. Takagi also won her second Olympic gold, and the first one in an individual event, in

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with a new Olympic record time of 1:13:19.

Personal records

She is currently in 2nd position in the adelskalender.

Olympic Games

''7 medals – (2 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze)''

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Career

Personal records

Olympic Games

See also

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