Hiroki Watanabe Explained
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| Hiroki Watanabe |
| Birth Date: | 23 May 1988 |
| Weight: | 800NaN0 |
| Sport: | Canoeing |
| Event: | Sprint canoe |
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is a Japanese sprint canoeist born in Yamanashi prefecture.[1] [2] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Hiroki Watanabe. London 2012. 19 February 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130501133253/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/watanabe-hiroki-1017027/. 1 May 2013.
- Hiroki Watanabe. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417213007/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/hiroki-watanabe-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 19 February 2013.
- News: China's Huang/Xu win men's kayak double 1000m gold at Asiad. https://web.archive.org/web/20101130163144/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-11/25/c_13621984.htm. dead. November 30, 2010. Xinhua News Agency. 25 November 2010. 19 February 2013.
- News: 14th Asian Canoe Sprint Championships – Men's K2 200m. PDF. Japan Canoe Federation. 19 February 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120815161537/http://www.canoe.or.jp/tournament/result/olympic_sp_02.pdf. 15 August 2012. dead. dmy-all.
- Web site: Men's Kayak Double (K2) 200m Final B. London 2012. 19 February 2013. 11 April 2013. https://archive.today/20130411071441/http://www.london2012.com/canoe-sprint/event/kayak-double-200m-men/phase=cfm122100/index.html. dead.
