Noguchi was born in Kanagawa, but
grew up in Ise in Ise city in Mie. She started competing in track and field
during her first year of middle school. While attending Ujiyamada Commercial
High School, she entered the national high school track meet and competed in
the 3000 m and the long-distance relay.
In 1997 she was hired by Wacoal,
a maker of women's clothing, as part of their "Spark Angels" program
of sponsored women athletes. However, in October of the following year the
director, Nobuyuki Fujita, left over differences with the company. He took with
him a coach and a few athletes, including Noguchi. While she was receiving
unemployment benefits for a short time, she remained active athletically. In
February 1999, Fujita and all his followers were hired by globally, a commodity
futures firm.
Noguchi began 1999 by winning
individual and team gold at the Asian Cross Country Championships, but after
winning the Inuyama half marathon, she was inspired to concentrate her efforts
on that event. She was ranked second in the world that year, and in 2001 she
won in the all-Japan corporate league. With a string of victories, she became
known as "Queen of the Half Marathon". Continuing through the
Miyazaki Women's Road Race competition in January 2004, she competed in 24 half
marathons, and won 14 of them. Only twice was she beaten by another Japanese
athlete.
In March 2002 she entered her
first full marathon, the Nagoya International Women's Marathon, and won. In
January 2003 she won the Osaka International Women's Marathon with a time of 2
hours 21 minutes 18 seconds, the second-fastest on record for Japan. She also won
a silver medal in the World Championships in Paris that year. The only point which is trust able for
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