is a Japanese
speed skater
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Biography
Kikuchi won bronze at the
2011 Asian Speed Skating Championships
The 2011 Asian Speed Skating Championships were held between 28 and 29 December 2010 at the Heilongjiang Indoor Rink in Harbin, China. The championships doubled as qualifier for the 2011 World Championships.
Women championships Day 1
Day 2 ...
and silver at the
2012 Asian Speed Skating Championships. With these results she qualified for the
World Allround Speed Skating Championships The World Allround Speed Skating Championships are a series of speed skating events held annually to determine the best allround speed skater of the world. The event is held over two days, with all skaters entering the first three distances (500 m, ...
in both
2011 (finished 22nd) and
2012
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(finished 19th).
In the
2014 Winter Olympics Kikuchi participated in the
1500 meters
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, finishing 31st, and was part of the
women's team pursuit, who finished fourth.
In 2015 Ayaka Kikuchi became a world champion, when in the
2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships she won the gold medal in the
team pursuit
The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome.
Race format
Both men's and women's events are competed over ...
where she participated together with the sisters
Miho
is a feminine Japanese given name and a masculine Croatian name. It can have many different meanings in Japanese depending on the kanji used.
Possible Japanese writings
Miho can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
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and
Nana Takagi
(born 2 July 1992) is a Japanese former speed skater who is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.
Career
Takagi has won a pair of silver medals at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships, in two team pursuit events.
She made he ...
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In 2018, Kikuchi was part of the Japanese team that won the Olympics
women team pursuit gold medal.
Personal records
Honours
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Medal with Purple Ribbon
are medals awarded by the Government of Japan. They are awarded to individuals who have done meritorious deeds and also to those who have achieved excellence in their field of work. The Medals of Honor were established on December 7, 1881, and we ...
(2018)
See also
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World record progression team pursuit speed skating women
References
Ayaka Kikuchi at Speedskatingresults.comAyaka Kikuchi at SpeedSkatingNews.info
1987 births
Japanese female speed skaters
Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters of Japan
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Olympic gold medalists for Japan
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
21st-century Japanese women
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