Hiroki Watanabe
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| Nationality |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 May 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Canoeing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint canoe | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hiroki Watanabe (渡辺大規[1], Watanabe Hiroki, born May 23, 1988) is a Japanese sprint canoeist born in Yamanashi prefecture.[2][3] He won a bronze medal, along with his partner Keiji Mizumoto, in the men's kayak doubles (1000 m) at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.[4]
Watanabe qualified for the men's K-2 200 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by placing first at the 2011 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships in Tehran, Iran.[5] Watanabe and his partner Momotaro Matsushita paddled to a second-place finish, and tenth overall in the B-final by twenty-four hundredths of a second (0.24) behind the Kazakh pair Alexey Dergunov and Yevgeniy Alexeyev, posting their time of 35.739 seconds.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ カヌー代表選手団 選手 渡邊 大規 (わたなべ ひろき) - Japanese Olympic Committee(joc)
- ^ "Hiroki Watanabe". London 2012. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hiroki Watanabe". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ "China's Huang/Xu win men's kayak double 1000m gold at Asiad". Xinhua News Agency. 25 November 2010. Archived from the original on November 30, 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ "14th Asian Canoe Sprint Championships – Men's K2 200m" (PDF). Japan Canoe Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 200m Final B". London 2012. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
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- 1988 births
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- Olympic canoeists for Japan
- Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in canoeing
- Canoeists at the 2010 Asian Games
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
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