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Naoko Takahashi

1972 - Today

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Naoko Takahashi (高橋 尚子, Takahashi Naoko; born May 6, 1972) 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 Marathon she became the first woman to complete a marathon in under 2 hours and 20 minutes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Naoko Takahashi is the 2,761st most popular athlete (down from 2,482nd in 2024), the 2,474th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,939th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Naoko Takahashi ranks 2,757 out of 6,025. Before her are Abdi Bile, and Tapio Sipilä. After her are Yaroslav Rybakov, Tatyana Kotova, Olimpiada Ivanova, Michal Martikán, Bettine Jahn, Salah Hissou, Chris Harris, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Marina Stepanova, and Jörg Freimuth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Naoko Takahashi ranks 615. Before her are Ovidiu Stîngă, Nicky Morgan, Carole Samaha, Kim Do-keun, Andrzej Kubica, and Michel Ancel. After her are Zhao Lijian, Naohito Fujiki, Joachim Rønning, Kenji Wakamatsu, Mykola Oleshchuk, and Salah Hissou.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoko Takahashi ranks 2,472 out of 6,245. Before her are Daiki Oizumi (1989), Yūji Ueda (1967), Masashi Miyamura (1969), and Ryuzo Morioka (1975). After her are Shinya Kato (1980), Daijiro Takakuwa (1973), Takuro Okuyama (1983), Kinoto Saito (1976), Satoru Yoshida (1970), Shoko Mikami (1981), Naohito Fujiki (1972), and Kenji Wakamatsu (1972).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Naoko Takahashi ranks 41. Before her are Shinji Hosokawa (1960), Nobutaka Taguchi (1951), Hideaki Tomiyama (1957), Hiroshi Yamamoto (1962), Koji Murofushi (1974), and Daniel Martínez (null). After her are Yuko Arimori (1966), Takeru Kobayashi (1978), Takanori Nagase (1993), Tadanori Koshino (1966), Yukinori Miyabe (1968), and Masato (1979).

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