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Nana Takagi

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Country
  
Japan

Role
  
Speed Skater

Sport
  
Height
  
1.55 m

Weight
  
47 kg

Name
  
Nana Takagi


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Born
  
2 July 1992 (age 31) (
1992-07-02
)
Makubetsu, Japan

Profiles


Highest world ranking
  
14 (mass start)

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Nana Takagi (髙木 菜那) (born 2 July 1992) is a Japanese speed skater who is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.

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Biography

Takagi has won a pair of silver medals at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships, in two team pursuit events.

She made her World Cup debut in November 2013. As of September 2014, Takagi has one World Cup podium finish, as part of the Japanese team pursuit squad at Heerenveen in 2013–14. Her best individual finish is 5th in a 5000 m race at Astana in 2013–14. Her best overall finish in the World Cup is 14th, in the 2013–14 mass start.

Takagi competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Japan. In the 1500 metres she placed 32nd. She was also part of the Japanese team pursuit squad, which won their semi-final, before losing to the Netherlands in the semi-final and to Russia in the bronze medal final, ending up 4th overall.

In 2015 Nana Takagi became a world champion, when in the 2015 World Single Distance Championships she won the gold medal in the team pursuit where she participated together with her sister Miho Takagi and compatriot Ayaka Kikuchi.

References

Nana Takagi Wikipedia