The 20-year-old could only manage a best finish of second in two of the four competitionsin Sapporo and Zao during a season where she has dominated proceedings as the jumpers head to Rasnov in Romania tomorrow.

Takanashi, the defending World Cup champion, had to watch her team-mate Yuki Ito claim three wins and Norway’s Maren Lundby top the podium in the other, in Sapporo.

Takanashi still remains on top of the leaderboard on 815 points, 83 in front of Ito, with Lundby further back on 517.

Last year, warm weather forced the stage in Rasnov to be cancelled.

In the 2014-2015 season, Takanashi topped the podium on the second day of competition after Austria’s Daniela Iraschko-Stolz won 24 hours earlier on her way to the World Cup title.

The men’s FIS World Cup heads to Germany with Willingen’s hills playing host.

Current leader Kamil Stoch of Poland will be looking to continue the fine form he has shown lately having won all four of the last jumps he has contested, three coming in his home country on the hills at Wisla and Zakopane.

The double Olympic gold medallist from Sochi 2014 has 933 points overall with Norwegian Daniel Andre Tande in second place with 803.

Teenager Domen Prevc of Slovenia, leader earlier in the season, is currently third on 780 points.

His older brother Peter won the same stage of the competition last season during a campaign which saw him lift the overall title.

Both the men and women start the latest legs of their World Cups with qualification rounds tomorrow before two competitions on Saturday (January 28) and Sunday (January 29).