Japanese ski jumper

Sara Takanashi

Sara Takanashi 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, seven World Championship medals, and two bronze Winter Olympics medals. As of May 2026, Takanashi holds the record for the most individual World Cup wins, male or female, with 63. She also has three Guinness World Records certificates for the most podium finishes in the Ski Jumping World Cup, the most individual victories by a female in the Ski Jumping World Cup, and the most Ski Jumping World Cup individual victories in a career (overall).

Born

1996

October 8

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1996 Born

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876 Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II ("the Bald").
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The world in 1996

When Sara arrived

april 13 Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
april 18 The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more.
april 21 Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland.
april 24 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

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Anne-Caroline Chausson 1977– French cyclist Bill Elliott 1955– American race car driver CeCe Winans 1964– American singer-songwriter Claude Jade 1948–2006 French actress (born 1948) Gus Hall 1910– American soldier and politician (died 2000) Heinrich Schütz 1585–1672 German organist and composer (born 1585) Juan Perón 1895–1974 Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895) Lynne Stewart 1939–2017 American attorney and activist (born 1939) Mike Morgan 1959– American baseball player and coach

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Aaron Ekblad 1996– Canadian ice hockey player Abigail Breslin 1996– American actress Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Ben Simmons 1996– Australian basketball player Caeleb Dressel 1996– American swimmer Emmanuel Mudiay 1996– Congolese-American basketball player Jacob Batalon 1996– Filipino-American actor Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Kevin Fiala 1996– Swiss ice hockey player

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