Hirooki Arai
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File:Hirooki Arai Médaillés du 50 km marche (36180448400) (cropped).jpg | |
Personal information | |
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Born | Nagano Prefecture, Japan | 18 May 1988
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan |
Sport | Track and field |
Event | Racewalking |
Hirooki Arai (荒井 広宙, Arai Hirooki, born 18 May 1988) is a male Japanese racewalker. He competed in the 50 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.[1] He finished third in the 50-kilometre race walk event at the 2016 Rio Olympics, but was subsequently disqualified following his collision in the final kilometres with Evan Dunfee of Canada, who then moved up from fourth place to claim the bronze medal.[2] He had it given back to him after a few minutes when a Japanese appeal overturned the disqualification.
See also
References
- ↑ "Men's 50 kilometres walk heats results" (PDF). IAAF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ↑ "Evan Dunfee loses bronze on Japanese appeal in 50km race walk". CBC Sports.
External links
- {{World Athletics}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- Hirooki Arai at JAAF (in Japanese)
- {{Olympedia}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
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- Hirooki Arai – Rio 2016 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
Categories:
- Living people
- 1988 births
- Sportspeople from Nagano Prefecture
- Japanese male racewalkers
- Olympic male racewalkers
- Olympic athletes for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
- Japan Championships in Athletics winners
- Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen