Sara Takanashi

Sara Takanashi 高梨 沙羅
Takanashi in 2014
Country	Japan
Born	(1996-10-08) 8 October 1996 (age 20) 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	78
Team podiums	2
Yellow bibs	73
Indiv. starts	89
Team starts	2
Overall titles	4 (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
Medal record 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 26 February 2017.

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 athletes in the sport, having won four World Cup titles (2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017) and three medals at the World Championships (2013 and 2015). Takanashi holds the record of 53 World Cup individual victories.

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.

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.