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Nao Kodaira
Japanese speed skater

Nao Kodaira

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Japanese speed skater
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Female
Place of birth
Chino, Japan
Age
38 years
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Height:
165 cm
Weight:
61 kg
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Biography

Nao Kodaira (Japanese: 小平 奈緒; born 26 May 1986) is a Japanese long-track speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances.

She is the 2018 Olympic champion in the 500 m distance. Kodaira is the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic gold medal in speed skating.

In 2009, she graduated from Shinshu University with a bachelor's degree in education.

Career

At the 2010 Winter Olympics she won a silver medal in the team pursuit event. She placed 5th in the 1000 and the 1500 m events and 12th in the 500 m one at the Olympics. At the 2014–15 World Cup stop in Seoul, South Korea, on 21 November 2014, she won the 500 m event, and she has a total of 25 podium placings in the world cup. At the 2015 world single distance championships, she won the bronze medal in the 500 m event.

At the 2017 world single distance championships, she became the first Japanese woman to win an individual single distance world title winning the women's 500 m event. She won also silver medal in the 1000 m event at the championships. At the world sprint championships in the year, she won the women's competition. In the season, she became overall winner of ISU World Cup 500 m cup.

Kodaira took the top step also in every single ISU world cup one in the 2017–18 season ahead of the Olympics.

She is the current world record holder in the 2×500 metres and the sprint combination, and the former world record holder in the 1000 metres and the team sprint, as well as the current Olympic and Japanese record holder in the 500 metres.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Kodaira won gold medal in the women's 500 m event and silver one in the women's 1000 m event respectively. In the former, she also set an Olympic record and became the first woman to break the 37-second barrier at sea level, as well as the first female Japanese Olympic champion in speed skating.

Records

Personal records

Personal records
Speed skating
EventResultDateLocationNotes
500 m36.479 March 2019Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
500 m (sea level)36.9418 February 2018Gangneung Oval, GangneungCurrent sea-level world best, current Olympic record.
2×500 m73.5526 February 2017Olympic Oval, CalgaryCurrent world record.
1000 m1:11.779 March 2019Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
1500 m1:59.0320 February 2009Harbin, ChinaCurrent Universiade record.
Team sprint1:26.8214 November 2015Olympic Oval, CalgaryFormer world record.
Sprint comb.146.39025–26 February 2017Olympic Oval, CalgaryCurrent world record.

World records

World records
Speed skating
EventResultDateLocationNotes
1000 m1:12.0910 December 2017Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake CityWorld record until beaten by Brittany Bowe on 9 March 2019.

Olympic records

Olympic records
Speed skating
EventResultDateLocationNotes
500 m36.9418 February 2018Gangneung Oval, GangneungCurrent Olympic record.
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