Miho Takagi won the bronze medal in the women's 1,000 meters at the world speed skating championships in the Netherlands.
Four events were held on the third day of the tournament on the 4th, and among them, Takagi, who won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics last year and won the first overall victory in this event at the World Cup this season, is the women's 1000m. has participated.
Takagi was sixth overall in the first half of the 600m, but in the second half, although his speed slowed down, he showed tenacious skating and finished in 1:14.37 to win the bronze medal.
Yoshiko Yamane was 19th with a time of 1:17.79.
The winner was Utah Roerdam of the Netherlands, the silver medalist in this event at the Beijing Olympics, with her time of 1:13.03.
In the men's 1000m, Tatsuya Shinhama was 12th with a time of 1'8.92, Ryota Kojima was 16th with a time of 1'9.21, and Kazuya Yamada was 20th with a time of 1'9.79.
The winner was American 18-year-old Jordan Stoltz, who marked 1:07:11.