Mizuki Noguchi
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Mizuki Noguchi is a Japanese professional long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon event. She is an Olympic champion over the distance.
NOGUCHI Mizuki Road of Gold Medal
Naoko Takahashi
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Naoko Takahashi is a Japanese retired long-distance runner and Olympic gold medal-winning marathoner. She won the gold medal in the marathon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and at the 2001 Berlin Maratho
Mizuki Noguchi
…which was her first big competition since winning the gold medal in Athens more than a year earlier. Four years earlier, the Berlin Marathon was won by Naoko Takahashi, the Japanese runner who took the Olympic gold medal in Sydney in 2000. Takahashi's remarkable win in 2001 in Berlin marked the first time in history…
Naoko Takahashi at the 2008 Nagoya Women's International Marathon