Yukiya Arashiro

Yukiya Arashiro (新城幸也, Arashiro Yukiya, born 22 September

Yukiya Arashiro
1984) is a Japanese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI
ProTeam Team Solution Tech–Vini Fantini.[5]

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
three times, in 2007, 2013 and 2022.

In 2009 he was selected by his team to ride the Tour de France.[6]

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.[7] By
finishing the 2010 Giro d'Italia, he became the first Japanese
person to finish two Grand Tour events.[8] He recorded a third-
place stage finish on the fifth stage, behind breakaway Arashiro in 2024

companions Jérôme Pineau and Julien Fouchard.[9] He completed Personal information

his third Tour de France in 2012 in 84th place—the highest placing Full name Yukiya Arashiro
of a Japanese person at that time[10]—and earned the most Born 22 September 1984
combative award on Stage 4.[11] He participated in the men's road Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan
race at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished in 48th place.[12]
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
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 Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
the Palais des Sports de Beaublanc in Limoges.[13] Competing in Team information
the 2015 Vuelta a España,[14] he became the first Japanese person Current team Team Solution Tech–Vini Fantini
to finish the three Grand Tours.[15] He took part three further times Disciplines Road
in the Olympic road race, coming 27th (2016), 35th (2021), and
Track
56th (2024).
Role Rider
Arashiro has completed all sixteen Grand Tours that he has started,
Rider type All-rounder
with a best finish of 65th at the 2014 Tour de France and the 2015
Vuelta a España. Professional teams
2006 Cycle Racing Team Vang
2007 Nippo Corporation
Major results 2008 Meitan Hompo-GDR
2009–2015 Bbox Bouygues Telecom
2005 2016 Lampre–Merida
National Under-23 Road Championships 2017–2024 Bahrain–Merida[1][2][3][4]
1st Time trial
1st Road race 2025– Team Solution Tech–Vini Fantini
Major wins
9th Tour de Okinawa
One-day races and Classics
2006
3rd Overall Tour du Limousin
3rd Tour de Okinawa
2007 Asian Road Race Championships
1st Road race, National Road Championships (2011)
1st Stage 7 Tour of Japan National Road Race Championships
2nd Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León
(2007, 2013, 2022)
1st Mountains classification

2nd Tour du Jura Medal record

3rd Overall Tour de Hokkaido Representing Japan
1st Stage 4
Men's road bicycle racing
3rd Tour de Okinawa Asian Championships
5th Japan Cup
7th Tour du Finistère 2011 Nakhon Ratchasima Road race
2008 2016 Izu Road race
1st Overall Tour de Okinawa
Mixed team
1st Stages 1 & 2 2025 Phitsanulok
relay
Asian Road Championships 2008 Nara Time trial
3rd Time trial
10th Road race 2023 Rayong Road race
2024 Almaty Time trial
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[16]

2018
Asian Road Championships
1st Team time trial
5th Road race

1st Overall Tour de Taiwan

2019
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2022
National Road Championships
1st Road race
3rd Time trial

2023
3rd Road race, Asian Road Championships
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
2024
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Tour

Giro — 93 — — — 127 — — — — — 89 77 — 123

d'Italia

Tour de 129 112 — 84 99 65 — 116 109 — — — — —

France

/
Vuelta
— — — — — — 65 106 — — 110 — 116 —
a
España

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External links
Yukiya Arashiro (https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/140742) at ProCyclingStats
Yukiya Arashiro (https://web.archive.org/web/2023/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?c
oureurid=20378) at Cycling Archives (archived)
Europcar Profile (http://en.teameuropcar.com/cycling/yukiya-arashiro_prs173310/person.shtml)
CyclingNews Profile (http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/yukiya-arashiro)
Tour De France Profile (https://web.archive.org/web/20120704183731/http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2012/
us/riders/team-europcar/arashiro-yukiya.html)
Yukiya Arashiro (https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/120808) at Olympedia
Yukiya Arashiro (https://olympics.com/en/athletes/yukiya-arashiro) at Olympics.com
Yukiya Arashiro (https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/yukiya-arashiro_1945759) at the Paris
2024 Summer Olympics

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