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Azusa Nojiri

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In her first race of 2012 she gave a varying performance in Osaka. She was down the order at the start of the race, then resurged in the second half of the race to lift herself into the runner-up spot, but again slowed in the final stages and ended up third behind
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and in response to her exclusion she left her running team and skipped competition for the rest of the year, looking to find a way to improve her running further.
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was cancelled. The race was to be used to select the national team, but Nojiri and several other Japanese were allowed as late additions to the
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in November saw an improvement as she led for a large portion of the race before being overhauled at the 30 km mark by eventual winner
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instead. In an extremely competitive field she came twelfth in a time of 2:25:29 hours. She was the second placed Japanese runner (after
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corporate running team around this time. The following year she improved to 70:53 minutes, taking tenth place at the
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races. Her personal best for the distance is 2:24:57 hours. She represented Japan in the marathon at the
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at the Sapporo Half Marathon. This performance earned her an international debut at the
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and her thirteenth-place finish at that event helped the Japanese team, including
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Her first marathon race came at the beginning of 2010, when she entered the
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Recovering from earthquake and tsunami, Sendai stages Ekiden Championships
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Upon her return the following year, she appeared to be out of form at the
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Japanese World Championships Marathon squad selected – Daegu 2011
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Marathoner Nojiri Leaves National Champion Team Daiichi Seimei
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and shared in the team bronze medal. She formerly ran for the
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but switched to distance running instead. She competed at the
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of Tenmaya – an outcome matched in the final team rankings.
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Nojiri, after excelling 1st in Borneo International Marathon
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Fourth Japanese Marathon victory for Mayorova in Yokohama
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Ngatuny and Nakamura take Sapporo Half Marathon titles
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in a time of 74:12 minutes. Nojiri signed up with the
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Tenmaya team wins Japanese Corp Women's Ekiden Champs
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was similarly underwhelming as she came tenth in the
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All Japan Corporate Team Half Marathon Championships
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Index

Nojiri, after excelling 1st in Borneo International Marathon 2015
Toyama Prefecture
Japan
Athletics
Long-distance running
long-distance runner
marathon
2011 World Championships in Athletics
cross-country skier
2005 Winter Universiade
2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Dai-Ichi Life
ekiden
Toyama Prefecture
cross-country skier
2005 Winter Universiade
marathon
half marathons
Hakodate Half Marathon
Dai-ichi Life
All Japan Corporate Team Half Marathon Championships
Sapporo Half Marathon
All-Japan Women's Corporate Ekiden Championships
Osaka Women's Marathon
Sachiko Yamashita
Yuri Kano
2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Yoshimi Ozaki
Ryoko Kizaki
Risa Shigetomo

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