*anese road bicycle racer

Yukiya Arashiro (新城幸也, Arashiro Yukiya, born 22 September 1984) is a *anese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Major results
  • 2.1 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Born in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Arashiro was the *anese Under-23 National Time Trial and Road Race Champion in 2005. He has also won the *anese National Road Race Championships twice, in 2007 and 2013.

In 2009 he was selected by his team to ride the Tour de France. Along with Fumiyuki Beppu, he was the first *anese national to complete that race, as on prior occasions Kisso Kawamuro and Daisuke Imanaka had started, but not finished, the race. By finishing the 2010 Giro d'Italia, he became the first *anese person to finish two Grand Tour events. He recorded a third-place stage finish on the fifth stage, behind breakaway companions Jérôme Pineau and Julien Fouchard. He completed his third Tour de France in 2012 in 84th place—the highest placing of a *anese person at that time—and earned the most combative award on Stage 4. He participated in the men's road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished in 48th place. A few weeks after the Olympics, he became the first *anese to win a race categorized as HC by the UCI, the Tour du Limousin of the Palais des Sports de Beaublanc in Limoges. Competing in the 2015 Vuelta a España, he became the first *anese person to finish the three Grand Tours. 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 fifteen 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

2005National Under-23 Road Championships1st Time trial1st Road race9th Tour de Okinawa20063rd Overall Tour du Limousin3rd Tour de Okinawa20071st Road race, National Road Championships1st Stage 7 Tour of *an2nd Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León1st Mountains cl*ification2nd Tour du Jura3rd Overall Tour de Hokkaido1st Stage 43rd Tour de Okinawa5th *an Cup7th Tour du Finistère20081st Overall Tour de Okinawa1st Stages 1 & 2Asian Road Championships3rd Time trial10th Road race3rd Overall Tour du Limousin1st Stage 23rd Overall Tour de *ano1st Stage 25th Overall Tour of *an7th Overall Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse7th Overall Tour de Bretagne20099th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk10th Trophée des Grimpeurs10th Grand Prix de Denain20101st Critérium cycliste international de Quillan5th Paris–Tours7th Grand Prix de la Somme9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships9th Val d'Ille Cl*ic9th *an Cup2011Asian Road Championships1st Road race4th Time trial2nd Road race, National Road Championships5th Overall Paris–Corrèze10th Overall Tour du Limousin20121st Overall Tour du Limousin Combativity award Stage 4 Tour de France20131st Road race, National Road Championships2nd Overall Tour du Limousin201410th Amstel Gold Race20153rd *an Cup5th Paris–Camembert6th Cholet-Pays de Loire10th Road race, Asian Road Championships20161st Stage 7 Tour of *an2nd Road race, Asian Road Championships9th *an Cup Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France2017Asian Road Championships2nd Team time trial7th Road race3rd Hong Kong Challenge2018Asian Road Championships1st Team time trial5th Road race1st Overall Tour de Taiwan2019National Road Championships2nd Road race7th Time trial

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

References

External links

• Yukiya Arashiro on Twitter
• Yukiya Arashiro at ProCyclingStats
• Yukiya Arashiro at Cycling Archives
• Europcar Profile
• CyclingNews Profile
• Tour De France Profile