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Shigeo Arai

1916 - 1944

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Shigeo Arai (新井 茂雄, Arai Shigeo; August 8, 1916 – July 19, 1944) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer who competed at the 1936 Olympics. He won a gold medal in 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, setting a world record. In the individual 100 m race he finished almost simultaneously with Masanori Yusa and Masaharu Taguchi and was awarded a bronze medal. Those Games were the only international competition for Arai, though he won three national titles in the 100 m and four in the 200 m freestyle between 1937 and 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shigeo Arai is the 46th most popular swimmer (down from 44th in 2019), the 1,160th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,242nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Shigeo Arai ranks 46 out of 709. Before him are Ilona Novák, Arvo Aaltonen, George Hodgson, Yasuji Miyazaki, Judit Temes, and Barbara Krause. After him are Károly Bartha, Willy den Ouden, Steve Clark, Kusuo Kitamura, Kathy Ellis, and Pontus Hanson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Shigeo Arai ranks 181. Before him are Herbert Norkus, Nadya Nozharova, Anne Hébert, Yasuji Miyazaki, Nelly Landry, and Ralph Nelson. After him are Herbert Friedman, Edward Binns, Guy Lapébie, José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, Delio Rodríguez, and Kurt Pettersén. Among people deceased in 1944, Shigeo Arai ranks 236. Before him are Karel Hartmann, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, Wim Anderiesen, Olga Sanfirova, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, and Paul-Émile Janson. After him are Hippolyte Aucouturier, Jaan Kikkas, Nikolai Roslavets, Mary Adela Blagg, Henryk Sławik, and Yevgeniya Rudneva.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeo Arai ranks 1,160 out of 6,245. Before him are Akira Ifukube (1914), Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892), Masaaki Kato (1958), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Akihito Kusunose (1986), and Takeshi Okada (1956). After him are Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Masako Yoshida (1957), Shinji Mikami (1965), Kōichi Kido (1889), Shinobu Hashimoto (1918), and Ayako Wakao (1933).

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Among SWIMMERS In Japan

Among swimmers born in Japan, Shigeo Arai ranks 2. Before him are Yasuji Miyazaki (1916). After him are Kusuo Kitamura (1917), Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Hideko Maehata (1914), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Shiro Hashizume (1928), Daichi Suzuki (1967), Kosuke Kitajima (1982), Ai Shibata (1982), Kosuke Hagino (1994), and Daiya Seto (1994).

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