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Born | 23 May 1988 | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Canoeing | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint canoe | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hiroki Watanabe (渡辺大規[1], Watanabe Hiroki, born May 23, 1988) is a Japanese sprint canoeist born in Yamanashi prefecture.[2][3] 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.[4]
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.[5] 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.[6]