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Japanese canoeist
Hiroki Watanabe
Personal information
Nationality Japan
Born (1988-05-23) 23 May 1988 (age 36)
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
SportCanoeing
EventSprint canoe
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Japan
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Guangzhou K-2 1000 m
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Tehran K-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2013 Samarkand K-1 200 m

Hiroki Watanabe (渡辺大規, Watanabe Hiroki, born May 23, 1988) is a Japanese sprint canoeist born in Yamanashi prefecture. 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.

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. 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.

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. Archived from the original on November 30, 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. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.

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