Hiroki Watanabe

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]

Hiroki Watanabe
Personal information
Nationality Japan
Born (1988-05-23) 23 May 1988
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
SportCanoeing
Event(s)Sprint canoe

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

  1. 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)
  2. "Hiroki Watanabe". London 2012. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  3. 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.
  4. "China's Huang/Xu win men's kayak double 1000m gold at Asiad". Xinhua News Agency. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  5. "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.
  6. "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 200m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.


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