Skate World Championship Miho Takagi wins first sprint overall championship March 1st 0:57
On the 29th, the world championship of speed skating in Norway was held on the 2nd day of the tournament, and Miho Takagi won the first overall victory in the sprint girl who decides the best short distance in the world.
The World Speed Skating Championships in Hamar, Norway has been integrated from this season with the World Sprint Championship and the World All-Round Championship.
Among the women in the "Sprint" competition, where they slid twice at 500m and 1000m each to compete in the overall results, the second day of the tournament on the 29th, Takagi who ranked first overall on the first day and the World Sprint Championship last year Nao Kodaira who won the race came in second overall.
Takagi and Kodaira made a strong slide together in the final set of 500 meters, but lost second to Kodaira in 37 seconds and 52 seconds. Kodaira, who slid together again, was pushed back with the tenacity of the second half, and took 1st place with a time of 1:13:93 for two consecutive days.
As a result, Takagi achieved his first overall championship with total points of 148.870 for all the second events.
Takagi is the world championship for adults. He is the best in the world in the "all-round" competition, where he competes in short-range and long-distance fours, and this is the first Japanese man and woman to achieve the double crown with "Sprint".
Kodaira, on the other hand, finished first in the second 500 meters at 37.46, and sixth in the second 1000 meters at 1'14.88, for a total of 150.150.