Norimi Sakurai

• Women's 100 km Track, 7:14:06, Lupatotissima  Italy, Sep 2003^[1]
• Women's 6hour Track, 83.200 kilometres (51.698 miles), Lupatoto Verone  Italy, Sept 2003^[1]

• 2007 female winner of IAU 24-hour run 100 km World Championship, 7:00:27, Winschoten  Netherlands

• 2001, 2003, 2007 female winner of Lake Saroma Ultramarathon,^[3] an IAU endorsed official 100 km race in Hokkaido, Japan
• 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008 female winner of Hasetsune cup,^[4] a 71.5 km trail in steep mountains in Japan. Sakurai's 2008 time of 8:54:07 is the current course record.^[4]

Sakurai was in the school's athletic club in her teens, and competed on the Wandervogel Club in University.^[5] After joining her first full marathon in 1996, Sakurai started joining various types of ultramarathon events.^[5] She now works for Adventure Divas and runs as a guide for people with hearing difficulties.^[5]

When Sakurai won the 2007 World Championship in Netherland, she ran with her water bottle in hand until the next aid station came.^[6] When asked, she answered that she did not want to throw it on the street.^[6]