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Overall ski jumping World Cup champion Sara Takanashi of Japan fell just short in her bid for a world title Friday, taking a silver medal behind American rival Sarah Hendrickson.

Newly crowned overall ski jumping World Cup champion Sara Takanashi will aim for her first gold medal at the Nordic skiing world championships on Friday.

In an official practice on Thursday, the 16-year-old phenom had a leap of 101 meters to move into first place, but she could only manage 92.5 meters on her second attempt, leaving her in fifth.

Japanese teenager Sara Takanashi became the youngest ever winner of an overall World Cup skiing crown Sunday, claiming the women's ski jumping title with her fourth consecutive victory and eighth of the season.

Japanese ski jumper Taku Takeuchi claimed a personal World Cup best with his second-place finish at a meet in Germany on Wednesday.

The 25-year-old Takeuchi, whose only previous podium finish came at Innsbruck in January 2012, landed jumps of 133.5 and 130.5 meters to score 254.6 points.

Saturday's ski jumping World Cup competition was completely cancelled after strong winds continued to howl at Zao ski resort in Yamagata Prefecture.

Sunday will feature a doubleheader, with the first competition starting at 8:30 a.m. Friday's official training had also been cancelled because of heavy snowfall.

Japanese teenager Sara Takanashi finished fifth in Sunday's World Cup women's ski jumping event at Miyamori hill in Hokkaido.

The 16-year-old local product landed a pair of 86-meter jumps to amass 225.4 points as she missed a World Cup podium finish for the second straight day and the third time this season.

Japanese phenomenon Sara Takanashi finished 12th in a women's World Cup meet on Saturday for her worst placing in over a year.

The second jump was delayed and eventually canceled due to high winds at Sapporo's Miyanomori-Schanze's K-90 normal hill. The 16-year-old Takanashi, who leads the World Cup standings and has four individual gold medals on the circuit this season, earned 99.1 points from an 85-meter jump. She had no chance to move up in the standings when the second jump was canceled.

Sara Takanashi of Japan won her fourth women's ski jump event of the season to extend her lead in the World Cup standings on Sunday.

The 16-year-old Takanashi was third after a first jump of 98 meters but soared to 105 with her next to win with 247.5 points overall.

Japanese teenager Sara Takanashi nailed the day's longest jumps but had to settle for the silver medal in the second women's ski jumping World Cup competition on Saturday.