Sara Takanashi

Sara Takanashi
Takanashi in Hinzenbach, 2017
Born (1996-10-08) 8 October 1996
Kamikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)[1]
Ski clubKuraray
Personal best188 m (617 ft)
Vikersund, 17 March 2024
World Cup career
Seasons2012–present
Indiv. starts241
Indiv. podiums116
Indiv. wins63
Team starts19
Team podiums6
Team wins3
Overall titles4 (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
Medal record
Representing Japan
Women's ski jumping
Olympic Games
2018 Pyeongchang Individual NH
World Championships
2013 Val di Fiemme Mixed team NH
2013 Val di Fiemme Individual NH
2021 Oberstdorf Individual LH
2015 Falun Mixed team NH
2017 Lahti Individual NH
2017 Lahti Mixed team NH
2021 Oberstdorf Individual NH
Youth Olympic Games
2012 Innsbruck Individual NH
Updated on 21 March 2025.

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 July 2025, 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]

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]

With the Japan national team, Takanashi 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

Year Place NH Mixed
2014 Sochi 4 N/A
2018 Pyeongchang N/A
2022 Beijing 4 4

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

Year Place NH LH Team Mixed
2011 Oslo 6 N/A N/A N/A
2013 Val di Fiemme N/A N/A
2015 Falun 4 N/A N/A
2017 Lahti N/A N/A
2019 Seefeld 6 N/A 6 5
2021 Oberstdorf 4 5
2023 Planica 20 — — —
2025 Trondheim 14 12 5 5

World Cup

Standings

Season Position Points
2011–12 3 639
2012–13 1 1,297
2013–14 1 1,720
2014–15 2 973
2015–16 1 1,610
2016–17 1 1,455
2017–18 3 916
2018–19 4 1,190
2019–20 4 785
2020–21 2 862
2021–22 5 843
2022–23 10 674
2023–24 9 799
2024–25 12 601

Individual 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 ob Savinji Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
9 17 February 2013   Ljubno ob Savinji Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
10 2013–14 7 December 2013   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS100 NH
11 21 December 2013   Hinterzarten Rothaus-Schanze HS108 NH
12 22 December 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 Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH
19 2 February 2014   Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze 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 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 ob Savinji Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
29 15 February 2015   Ljubno ob Savinji Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
30 13 March 2015   Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH
31 2015–16 4 December 2015   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS100 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 NH
36 23 January 2016   Zaō Yamagata HS106 NH
37 30 January 2016   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH
38 31 January 2016   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH
39 4 February 2016   Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 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 NH
46 3 December 2016   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS100 NH
47 11 December 2016   Nizhny Tagil Tramplin Stork HS100 NH
48 7 January 2017   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS137 LH
49 8 January 2017   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS137 LH
50 29 January 2017   Râșnov Trambulina Valea Cărbunării 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
54 2017–18 24 March 2018   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH
55 25 March 2018   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH
56 2018–19 10 February 2019   Ljubno ob Savinji Savina Ski Jumping Center HS94 NH
57 2019–20 9 March 2020   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
58 2020–21 6 February 2021   Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS90 NH
59 7 February 2021   Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS90 NH
60 19 February 2021   Râșnov Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS97 NH
61 2021–22 1 January 2022   Ljubno ob Savinji Savina Ski Jumping Center HS94 NH
62 2 March 2022  Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
63 6 March 2022  Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH

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
5 17 2 – – – – 2 2 1 2 2 2
2012–13
1 2 3 1 1 4 2 1 12 5 1 1 1 1 2 2
2013–14
1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2014–15
3 1 1 7 3 5 3 8 2 1 1 1 1
2015–16
1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 1 1 1
2016–17
1 1 3 1 1 1 2 4 5 2 2 1 1 1 – – 2 1 2
2017–18
4 4 3 3 3 2 4 3 3 4 7 4 4 1 1
2018–19
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
9 3 4 4 5 2 4 4 9 16 4 4 4 5 1 8
2020–21
3 4 7 2 DQ 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 7
2021–22
6 5 6 8 5 4 4 5 1 – – – – 1 4 3 1 4 7
2022–23
6 5 18 16 14 11 14 5 10 11 10 9 30 4 4 3 3 8 11 – – – – 10 11 11
2023–24
12 6 21 11 6 19 9 11 4 7 11 8 6 2 4 12 9 6 7 10 9 17 6 4
2024–25
10 17 14 4 12 15 11 11 30 14 8 11 7 7 – – 6 6 6 9 5 15 14 8

References

  1. ^ "Sara TAKANASHI". Olympic Channel. Archived from the original on 12 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Athlete: Takanashi Sara – all wins". fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  3. ^ "A Japanese ski jumper breaks record to win 3 Guinness titles". The Indian Express. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  4. ^ "World Ski Championships Oslo (NOR)". fis-ski.com.
  5. ^ Gallagher, Jack (12 February 2014). "Ski jump favorite Takanashi fails to land medal". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  6. ^ "Takanashi wraps up third World Cup title". The Japan Times. 19 February 2016. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Japan rules in first ever Ladies' Team event". fis-ski.com. 16 December 2017. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  8. ^ Trevelyan, Mark (12 February 2018). "Ski jumping: Norway's Lundby flies through blizzard to take gold". Reuters. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
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