She won Canada's first gold medal at the World University Games in Judo in 1984 and coached Canada's first women's Judo Olympian Sandra Greaves in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.
[1][2] Takahashi was the first Canadian woman to achieve the rank of roku-dan (sixth-degree black belt), and the first women's Sport Canada carded athlete.
[3][4] In 2008, she was named as Chair of the National Grading Board by Judo Canada.
In 2005, she co-authored a book titled Mastering Judo with her parents and three siblings.
Original sensei, coached many athletes from children to national and international champions.