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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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Yuka Naoi (直井 由香, Naoi Yuka, 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 Yuki Naoi. [4]
Like Yuki, she has retinitis pigmentosa. She developed symptoms when she was 20, [5] and began playing goalball in around 1997. [4]