Hirooki Arai

Hirooki Arai
Personal information
Born (1988-05-18) 18 May 1988 (age 36)
Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Country Japan
SportTrack and field
EventRacewalking
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 50 km walk
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 London 50 km walk
World Race Walking Cup
Gold medal – first place 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

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.


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