Natsumi Hoshi is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specialises in the 200 metre butterfly, born on 21 August 1990. In that event she won the world title in 2015 and took bronze medals at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. She studied sports science at Waseda University in Tokyo. In 2006 she showed symptoms of Graves disease, an overactive thyroid condition that causes frequent fatigue, and her thyroid gland was removed in November 2014, after which she returned to competition in January 2015 and won her world title the same year. In 2011 she was named Best Athlete of the Year by the Saitama Swimming Federation.
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she won the world title in 2015 and bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics
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bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics
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bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics
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