is a Japanese female

rhythmic gymnast Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and calisthenics; gymnasts must be strong, flexible, agile, dexterous and coordi ...

Career

Noshitani helped the Japanese ladies secure a gold-medal triumph in the group all-around at the 2016 Asian Championships in

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, and eventually competed as a member of the nation's rhythmic gymnastics squad at the

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

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on that same year. There, she and fellow gymnasts

Airi Hatakeyama is a former group rhythmic gymnast and current television reporter in Japan. Career Hatakeyama has represented Japan at international competitions. She participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She competed at world championships, including at ...

Rie Matsubara is a Japanese group rhythmic gymnast. Being World champion and 10-time Asian champion, she is widely considered to be the most successful Japanese rhythmic gymnast ever. Career She has participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished on ...

, Sayuri Sugimoto, and

Kiko Yokota is a Japanese group rhythmic gymnast. Career Yokota represented Japan at the 2015 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships where she won the bronze medal in the 5 ribbons event. and eventually competed alongside her teammates Airi Hatakeya ...

attained a total score of 34.200 on the combination of ribbons, hoops, and clubs to wrap up the group all-around final roster of eight teams in last place. She competed at the

2013 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships The 2013 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Kyiv, Ukraine, from August 28 to September 1, 2013 at the Palace of Sports. Yana Kudryavtseva of the Russian Federation became the youngest individual world all-around champion in rh ...

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* * * * 1997 births Living people Japanese rhythmic gymnasts Gymnasts from Tokyo Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Japan Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese people Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics Asian Championships {{Japan-rhythmic-gymnastics-bio-stub