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| Nationality |  Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 May 1988 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| 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
- ↑ 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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