Yukiya Arashiro

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.[3]

Yukiya Arashiro
Arashiro at the 2017 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameYukiya Arashiro
Born (1984-09-22) 22 September 1984
Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current teamTeam Bahrain Victorious
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Professional teams
2006Cycle Racing Team Vang
2007Nippo Corporation
2008Meitan Hompo-GDR
2009–2015Bbox Bouygues Telecom
2016Lampre–Merida
2017–Bahrain–Merida[1][2]
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Road Race Championships (2007, 2013)

Career

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 twice, in 2007 and 2013.

In 2009 he was selected by his team to ride the Tour de France.[4] 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.[5] By finishing the 2010 Giro d'Italia, he became the first Japanese person to finish two Grand Tour events.[6] He recorded a third-place stage finish on the fifth stage, behind breakaway companions Jérôme Pineau and Julien Fouchard.[7] He completed his third Tour de France in 2012 in 84th place—the highest placing of a Japanese person at that time[8]—and earned the most combative award on Stage 4.[9] He participated in the men's road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished in 48th place.[10] 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.[11] Competing in the 2015 Vuelta a España,[12] he became the first Japanese person to finish the three Grand Tours.[13] He finished 27th in the 2016 Summer Olympics men's road race.

Arashiro has completed all thirteen Grand Tours that he has started, with a best finish of 65th at the 2014 Tour de France and the 2015 Vuelta a España.

Major results
2005
National Under-23 Road Championships
1st Time trial
1st Road race
9th Tour de Okinawa
2006
3rd Overall Tour du Limousin
3rd Tour de Okinawa
2007
1st Road race, National Road Championships
1st Stage 7 Tour of Japan
2nd Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León
1st Mountains classification
2nd Tour du Jura
3rd Overall Tour de Hokkaido
1st Stage 4
3rd Tour de Okinawa
5th Japan Cup
7th Tour du Finistère
2008
1st Overall Tour de Okinawa
1st Stages 1 & 2
Asian Road Championships
3rd Time trial
10th Road race
3rd Overall Tour du Limousin
1st Stage 2
3rd Overall Tour de Kumano
1st Stage 2
5th Overall Tour of Japan
7th Overall Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse
7th Overall Tour de Bretagne
2009
9th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
10th Trophée des Grimpeurs
10th Grand Prix de Denain
2010
1st Critérium cycliste international de Quillan
5th Paris–Tours
7th Grand Prix de la Somme
9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
9th Val d'Ille Classic
9th Japan Cup
2011
Asian Road Championships
1st Road race
4th Time trial
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
5th Overall Paris–Corrèze
10th Overall Tour du Limousin
2012
1st Overall Tour du Limousin
Combativity award Stage 4 Tour de France
2013
1st Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Overall Tour du Limousin
2014
10th Amstel Gold Race
2015
3rd Japan Cup
5th Paris–Camembert
6th Cholet-Pays de Loire
10th Road race, Asian Road Championships
2016
1st Stage 7 Tour of Japan
2nd Road race, Asian Road Championships
9th Japan Cup
Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France
2017
Asian Road Championships
2nd Team time trial
7th Road race
3rd Hong Kong Challenge[14]
2018
Asian Road Championships
1st Team time trial
5th Road race
1st Overall Tour de Taiwan
2019
National Road Championships
2nd Road race
7th Time trial

Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Giro d'Italia — 93 — — — 127 — — — — — 89
Tour de France 129 112 — 84 99 65 — 116 109 — — —
/ Vuelta a España — — — — — — 65 106 — — 110 —

References
  1. "Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team". Merida Bikes. Merida Industry Co., Ltd. Archived from the original on 1 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  2. Ostanek, Daniel (26 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Bahrain McLaren". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  3. "Bahrain Victorious". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. Arashiro Flies Flag For Japan in Tour de France
  5. Quénet, Jean-François. "Tour de France likely for two Japanese riders". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  6. Ayano, Makoto (31 May 2010). "Arashiro Yukiya ga Jiro de Itaria sōgō 93-i kansō". Cyclowired (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 May 2010.
  7. Clarke, Les; Quénet, Jean-François (13 May 2010). "Pineau nabs Quick Step's second stage". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  8. "Arashiro Yukiya rēsu-go intabyū". Cyclowired. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  9. Benson, Daniel. "Greipel wins Tour de France stage in Rouen". CyclingNews.com. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  10. "Men's Road Race". London 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  11. Tsuji, Kei. "Nihonjin hatsu no chōkyū kategorī rēsu seiha". Cyclowired. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  12. "Vuelta a España 2015". Cycling Fever. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  13. Iijima, Miwa. "新城幸也が日本人初のグランツール3大会完走". Cyclist Sanspo (in Japanese). Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  14. "Mohoric wins inaugural Hong Kong Cyclothon". cyclingnews.com. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
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