Japan won the bronze medal in the women’s team pursuit event in the speed skating competition at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games on Tuesday.
This is Japan’s third straight Olympic medal in the event.
Japan faced off with the United States at the match for third place. The Japanese skaters were Takagi Miho, Sato Ayano, and Noake Hana.
Takagi broke the record she held for the number of medals won by a female Japanese Olympic athlete by winning her 10th medal.
Tuesday’s victory brought Japan’s total number of medals to 19 at the Winter Olympics, surpassing the country’s previous record set at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.
Nine medals up for grabs -Medal events: Men’s and women’s cross-country team sprint (08:45-12:15); Women’s slalom (09:00-14:20); Men’s snowboard slopestyle (10:20-11:50); Women’s aerials (12:00-13:35); Women’s snowboard slopestyle (13:30-14:50); Women’s biathlon 4 x 6km relay (13:45-15:20); Men’s 500m and women’s 3000m short track (19:15-21:00).
It’s not so much about unfinished business,” continued the American. “It’s more about making peace.”
Her main rivals are likely to be Croatian 21-year-old and slalom World Cup winner Zrinka Ljutic and Camille Rast, who last year became the first Swiss racer since 1991 to win the slalom world title.
Snowboard: Men’s slopestyle final (10:20-11:40)
The last of the snowboard events at these Games should be a fascinating contest. Canadian veteran Mark McMorris, who has won slopestyle bronze at the last three Olympics, returns for a crack at an elusive gold, along with 2018 Olympic champion Red Gerard. Japan have a crop of exciting young stars.
Snowboard: Women’s slopestyle final (13:30-14:50 – re-arranged from Tuesday because of weather)
British teenager Mia Brookes was a potential medal hope in this event but she is not in the final after finishing 16th in qualification.
Reigning Olympic and world champion Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand topped qualification, ahead of the Netherlands’ Melissa Peperkamp.
The rest of the field were at least nine points behind the pair.
The riders have three runs to impress the judges, with their best score counting.
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It’s the quarter-finals in men’s ice hockey, with the four winners from the previous day’s play-off games taking on the four teams with the best record in the group stage.
In curling, Great Britain’s women return after a rest day to face the USA at 09:05 and Japan at 18:05. Britain’s men meet the USA at 13:05 in the last of their round-robin matches.
There’ll be plenty of breathtaking acrobatics on display as the re-arranged women’s aerials final takes place (12:00). Can 35-year-old five-time Olympian Xu Mengtao of China retain her title?
Switzerland’s Noe Roth has won the past two world titles but has not managed to land on the podium at either of the past two Olympics.
A medal in Milano-Cortina would emulate his mother Colette Brand, who won aerials bronze in Nagano in 1998. Qi Guangpu is the defending champion.
The men’s speed skating 1500m (15:30) is regarded as one of speed skating’s blue riband contests and is known by afficionados as the ‘king’s race’.
US star Jordan Stolz, 21, came into these Games targeting gold in the 500m, 1000m and 1500m, with this competition potentially giving him the chance of a famous hat-trick. He has won all five of this season’s World Cup races over 1500m.
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