About Sara Takanashi
Sara Takanashi 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, seven World Championship medals, and two bronze Winter Olympics medals. As of March 2026, Takanashi holds the record for the most individual World Cup wins, male or female, with 63. 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). During the 2013–14 season, Takanashi won 15 out of 18 individual World Cup ski jumping events. With the Japan national team, Takanashi won the first-ever women's World Cup team competition in Hinterzarten on 16 December 2017. 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.
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