Naoko Sakamoto

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Naoko Sakamoto ( Japanese 坂 本 直 子 , Sakamoto Naoko ; born November 14, 1980 in Nishinomiya ) is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in marathons .

At the marathon of the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis, she was fourth, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens seventh in the same discipline.

In 2003 she set her personal best as third in the Osaka Women's Marathon with 2:21:51, a year later she won this run in 2:25:29.

After a break from competition of three years, she finished fifth in the 2007 Berlin Marathon .

Naoko Sakamoto is 1.60 m tall and has a competition weight of 44 kg.

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