_(cropped).jpg) Arashiro at the 2017 Tour de France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Yukiya Arashiro | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 September 1984 Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Bahrain Victorious | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rider type | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006 | Cycle Racing Team Vang | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Nippo Corporation | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Meitan Hompo-GDR | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2015 | Bbox Bouygues Telecom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Lampre–Merida | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Bahrain–Merida[1][2][3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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One-day races and Classics
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Yukiya Arashiro (新城幸也, Arashiro Yukiya, born 22 September 1984) is a Japanese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious.[4]
Born in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Arashiro was the Japanese Under-23 National Time Trial and Road Race Champion in 2005. He has also won the Japanese National Road Race Championships three times, in 2007, 2013 and 2022.
In 2009 he was selected by his team to ride the Tour de France.[5] Along with Fumiyuki Beppu, he was the first Japanese national to complete that race, as on prior occasions Kisso Kawamuro and Daisuke Imanaka had started, but not finished, the race.[6] By finishing the 2010 Giro d'Italia, he became the first Japanese person to finish two Grand Tour events.[7] He recorded a third-place stage finish on the fifth stage, behind breakaway companions Jérôme Pineau and Julien Fouchard.[8] He completed his third Tour de France in 2012 in 84th place—the highest placing of a Japanese person at that time[9]—and earned the most combative award on Stage 4.[10] He participated in the men's road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished in 48th place.[11] A few weeks after the Olympics, he became the first Japanese to win a race categorized as HC by the UCI, the Tour du Limousin of the Palais des Sports de Beaublanc in Limoges.[12] Competing in the 2015 Vuelta a España,[13] he became the first Japanese person to finish the three Grand Tours.[14] He finished 27th in the 2016 Summer Olympics men's road race, and 35th in the 2020 Summer Olympics men's road race.
Arashiro has completed all sixteen Grand Tours that he has started, with a best finish of 65th at the 2014 Tour de France and the 2015 Vuelta a España.
Time trial Road race Road race, National Road Championships
Time trial
Road race
Overall Tour du Limousin
Combativity award Stage 4 Tour de France Road race, National Road Championships
Road race, Asian Road Championships Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France Team time trial Team time trial Overall Tour de Taiwan Road race Road race, Asian Road Championships| Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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— | 93 | — | — | — | 127 | — | — | — | — | — | 89 | 77 | — | 123 |
 Tour de France
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129 | 112 | — | 84 | 99 | 65 | — | 116 | 109 | — | — | — | — | — | |
 / Vuelta a España
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— | — | — | — | — | — | 65 | 106 | — | — | 110 | — | 116 | — |
