Nana Takagi

{{Infobox speed skater

| name = Nana Takagi

| image = Nana Takagi 2018.jpg

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| caption = Nana Takagi in 2018

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| nationality = Japanese

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|7|2|df=y}}

| birth_place = Makubetsu, Japan

| height = 1.55 m

| weight = 45 kg

| country = Japan

| event = Mass start

| club = Nidec Sankyo Corporation

| highestranking = 14 (mass start)

| retired = 2022

| medaltemplates =

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{{nihongo|Nana Takagi|髙木菜那}} (born 2 July 1992) is a Japanese former speed skater who is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nidec-sankyo.co.jp/skate/content/playershokai_inter.html |title=Athlete Profiles – Nidec Sankyo Speed Skating Team |access-date=4 December 2014 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028202620/http://www.nidec-sankyo.co.jp/skate/content/playershokai_inter.html |url-status=dead }}

Career

Takagi has won a pair of silver medals at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships, in two team pursuit events.{{cite web |title=SpeedSkatingStats.com Biography |url=http://www.speedskatingstats.com/index.php?file=skater&code=1992070201}}

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.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Nana Takagi |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/nana-takagi-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417213632/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/nana-takagi-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17}}{{cite web |title=Nana Takagi |date=19 March 2014 |url=http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-nana-takagi |website=Sochi2014.com |publisher=Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319041859/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-nana-takagi |archivedate=19 March 2014}}

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.

In 2018, Takagi was part of the Japanese team that won the Olympics women team pursuit gold medal.{{citation |last=Fielding |first=Gus |title=Miho Takagi overjoyed after claiming coveted gold medal in team pursuit |newspaper=Japan Times |date=22 February 2018 |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2018/02/22/olympics/winter-olympics/olympics-speedskating/miho-takagi-overjoyed-claiming-coveted-gold-medal-team-pursuit/ |access-date=22 February 2018 |archive-date=26 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426155959/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2018/02/22/olympics/winter-olympics/olympics-speedskating/miho-takagi-overjoyed-claiming-coveted-gold-medal-team-pursuit/ |url-status=dead }} Takagi won a second gold medal at the 2018 Olympics in the Women's mass start event.{{citation |last=Jennings |first=Simon |title=Speed skating: Japan's Takagi surges to mass start gold |work=Reuters |date=24 February 2018 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2018-skat-w-ms/speed-skating-japans-takagi-surges-to-mass-start-gold-idUSKCN1G80IG}}