Hirooki Arai

Hirooki Arai

Personal information
Born	(1988-05-18) 18 May 1988 (age 36) Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Country	Japan
Sport	Track and field
Event	Racewalking
Medal record Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 50 km walk World Championships 2017 London 50 km walk World Race Walking Cup 2018 Taicang 50 km walk

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 following his collision in the final kilometres 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.

See also

• Japan at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics

References

1. "Men's 50 kilometres walk heats results" (PDF). IAAF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
2. "Evan Dunfee loses bronze on Japanese appeal in 50km race walk". CBC Sports.

External links

• Hirooki Arai at World Athletics
• Hirooki Arai at JAAF (in Japanese)
• Hirooki Arai at Olympedia (archive)
• Hirooki Arai at Olympics.com
• Hirooki Arai – Rio 2016 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)