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Sara Takanashi

1996 - Today

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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 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 (an all-time female record), seven World Championship medals, and a Winter Olympic medal. As of December 2024, Takanashi holds the record for the most individual World Cup wins, male or female, with 63. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sara Takanashi has received more than 213,713 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Sara Takanashi is the 413th most popular skier (down from 384th in 2019), the 2,371st most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,093rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Skier.

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  • 210k

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  • 34.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Sara Takanashi ranks 413 out of 817Before her are Tina Weirather, Daiki Ito, Klaus Sulzenbacher, Svetlana Nageykina, Michelle Gisin, and Alexandra Meissnitzer. After her are Jason Lamy-Chappuis, Yuliya Chepalova, Yevgeniya Medvedeva, Damjan Fras, Corinne Suter, and Matthias Mayer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1996, Sara Takanashi ranks 221Before her are Robert Skov, Jack Griffo, D'Angelo Russell, Christian Coleman, Zakaria Bakkali, and Kendji Girac. After her are Oh Ha-young, Andreas Obst, Doyoung, Aleksandr Vlasov, Edimilson Fernandes, and Mary Mouser.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sara Takanashi ranks 2,371 out of 6,245Before her are Yoko Ishida (1973), Yuka Iguchi (1988), Takeshi Motoyoshi (1967), Hitomi Shimatani (1980), Kentaro Hayashi (1972), and Nami Tamaki (1988). After her are Crystal Kay (1986), Hiroshi Moriyasu (1972), Aya Matsuura (1986), Naotake Hanyu (1979), Kenji Fukuda (1977), and Nobuhiro Ueno (1965).

Among SKIERS In Japan

Among skiers born in Japan, Sara Takanashi ranks 14Before her are Ryoyu Kobayashi (1996), Akito Watabe (1988), Hirokazu Yagi (1959), Hiroya Saitō (1970), Taku Takeuchi (1987), and Daiki Ito (1985). After her are Tae Satoya (1976), Takanori Kono (1969), Junshirō Kobayashi (1991), and Yuki Ito (1994).