Yuki Naoi
Appearance
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Born | Maebashi,[1] Gunma, Japan | March 17, 1963|||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Women's goalball | |||||||||||||||||
Disability | Retinitis pigmentosa | |||||||||||||||||
Disability class | B2[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yuki Naoi (直井 由紀, Naoi Yuki, born 17 March 1963[2]) is a Japanese retired goalball player. She won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics with the Japanese team[3] which also included her twin sister Yuka Naoi.[4]
Like Yuka, she has retinitis pigmentosa. She developed symptoms when she was in junior high, before her sister.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Athens2004 Athletes" (PDF). Japanese Para-Sports Association (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ "Naoi Yuki". 2008 Summer Paralympics. Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ "Yuki Naoi". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
- ^ "挑戦!アテネパラリンピック-ゴールボール選手 直井由香(なおいゆか)さん". Normalization (in Japanese). 24 (276). July 2004. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ "視覚障害ある双子・直井さん、パラリンピック出場". Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). 8 June 2004. Archived from the original on 12 October 2006. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
Categories:
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Goalball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Goalball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Sportspeople from Gunma Prefecture
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic goalball players for Japan
- Female goalball players
- Japanese twins
- Twin sportspeople
- People from Maebashi
- Paralympic medalists in goalball
- 21st-century Japanese women
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Para Games
- Japanese Paralympic medalist stubs
- Goalball biography stubs