Yukiya Arashiro
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Arashiro at the 2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | September 22, 1984 |
nation |
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discipline | Street |
To the team | |
Current team | Bahrain-McLaren |
function | driver |
Team (s) | |
2006 2007–2008 2009–2010 2015 2016 2017– |
Cycle Racing Team Vang Meitan Hompo Bbox Bouygues Télécom Europcar Lampre-Merida Bahrain-McLaren |
Most important successes | |
Overall ranking Tour du Limousin 2012 |
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Last updated: December 28, 2018 |
Yukiya Arashiro ( Japanese 新城 幸 也 , Arashiro Yukiya ; born September 22, 1984 in Ishigaki ) is a Japanese cyclist .
Career
Arashiro rode for smaller Japanese cycling teams until 2008 and was primarily successful in races on the UCI Asia Tour : He won the overall ranking of the Tour de Okinawa and a total of five daily sections of Asian stage races . In 2005 he was also the Japanese champion in the individual time trial of the elite and the U23. In 2005 and 2006 he was U23 national road racing champion . In the following year he was the first title holder in the road race of the elite. At the French Tour du Limousin 2008 - a first category race at the time - he won a stage in 2008 and was third in the overall standings.
Subsequently, Arashiro joined the French UCI ProTeam Bbox Bouygues Télécom (later a Professional Continental Team as Team Europcar ) at the beginning of the 2009 season , until he switched to WorldTeam Lampre-Merida at the end of the 2015 season.
Arashiro was the first Japanese to finish the Tour de France in 2009 . In 2009 and 2012 , he was awarded the red shirt number as the most combative driver after each stage . Until 2017 he took part in this Grand Tour a total of seven times and was able to finish the tour every time.
At the UCI Road World Championships 2010 in Geelong , Arashiro was ninth in the sprint of the 30-strong front field. At the classic Paris-Tours , he finished fifth in the mass sprint a week later. The following year Arashiro was Asian road race champion. His most important victory to date was in 2012, when he won the overall ranking of the Tour du Limousin, a race hors categorie at the time. In 2013 Arashiro was national road racing champion for the second time.
Arashiro represented Japan in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics , where he finished 48th and 27th in road races.
successes
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- one stage tour of Japan
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Japanese champion - road racing
- one stage Tour de Hokkaidō
- 2008
- one stage Tour de Kumano
- one stage Tour du Limousin
- Overall classification and two stages of the Tour de Okinawa
- 2011
- 2012
- Overall ranking Tour du Limousin
- 2013
- 2016
- one stage tour of Japan
- 2017
- 2018
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Asian champions - team time trial
- Overall ranking Tour de Taiwan
Grand Tours placements
Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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- | 93 | - | - | - | 127 | - | - | - | - | - |
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128 | 112 | - | 84 | 99 | 65 | - | 116 | 109 | - | - |
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- | - | - | - | - | - | 65 | 106 | - | - | 110 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arashiro: 208-kilometer escape rewarded with a red start number. In: radsport-news.com. July 4, 2012, accessed December 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Hushovd new world champion, Germans get nothing. In: radsport-news.com. October 3, 2010, accessed December 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Freire wins ahead of Furlan and Steegmans. In: radsport-news.com. October 10, 2010, accessed December 28, 2018 .
Web links
- Yukiya Arashiro in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Yukiya Arashiro in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Yukiya Arashiro in the Tour de France database(French / English )
- Yukiya Arashiro in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Arashiro, Yukiya |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 新城 幸 也 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ishigaki , Okinawa Prefecture , Japan |