On February 17, Beijing time, the women's 1000-meter speed skating event at the Beijing Winter Olympics was completed, and Japan's Mifan Takagi won the championship in 1:13.19, Lardan from the Netherlands won the silver medal in 1:13.83, and Britannini from the United States won the bronze medal in 1:13.83. Miho Takagi finally won the first gold medal of the Olympic Games, after she had already won three silver medals for Japan, and she was personally very happy after the game.
Takagi Miho also broke the Olympic record held by Dutch athlete Moore at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 1:13.56 this time, and this is far from the best result of Takagi Miho, the 27-year-old she constantly challenged herself, his best time this season is 1 minute 11.83 seconds, which is not much different from the world record 1:11.61, and 1 minute 11.83 is also the best of all the players in the 1000m event, so she is the favorite to win the championship before the race.
Before winning the gold medal in the 1000 meters event, he had already won the silver medal in the 500 meters speed skating, the silver medal in the 1500 meters speed skating, the women's team chased the silver medal, she was once labeled by the Japanese media as the "millennium old two", she said in the pre-race interview: In the face of the disappointment of the 500 meters and 1500 meters, I know that I can only do my best, and I will hold all the consciousness to complete.
The performance of Japan in this Winter Olympics is not too good, they currently only have 3 gold, 5 silver and 9 bronze, 17 in the medal table ranked first in Asia, China 15 medals in Asia second, but China has 7 gold medals ranked fifth, and Japan is only 12th, Takagi Miho This third gold is a great incentive for the Japanese people, and the Japanese media is also a wind critic.
Japanese media wrote in the report: Takagi Miho alone participated in five events to win four medals for Japan, and when participating in the 1000-meter event, Takagi Miho's left leg was already injured, but Takagi Miho did not give up the competition, she won the championship with tenacious perseverance.
Miho Takagi is also 27 years old this year, and two years ago she set a world record of speed skating in 1500 meters with 1:49.83, and at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 1500 meters she was runner-up and 1000 meters was third.
Text/Yan Xiaobai