Hirooki Arai
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Born | Nagano Prefecture, Japan | 18 May 1988
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
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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 for making contact 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.
Arai serves in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force as a second lieutenant.[3]
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- Japanese male racewalkers
- Living people
- 1988 births
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Japan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Nagano Prefecture
- Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- Japanese athletics biography stubs