Noriko Arai

This article is about the paralympic wheelchair racer. For the mathematician and artificial intelligence researcher, see Noriko H. Arai.

Noriko Arai (荒井 のり子, Arai Noriko; born 1973) is a paralympic athlete from Japan who competes mainly in category T34 sprint events.

Noriko Arai

Medal record
Track and field (athletics)
Representing  Japan
Paralympic Games
	1996 Atlanta	100 metres - T32-33
	2000 Sydney	100 metres - T34
	1996 Atlanta	200 metres - T32-33
	2000 Sydney	200 metres - T34
	2004 Athens	200 metres - T34

Noriko competed in the 100m and 200m at three consecutive Paralympics. In her first two games in 1996 and 2000, she won gold in the 100m and silver in the 200m on both occasions. In 2008, she won the bronze medal in the same event.^[1]