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Shoya Tomizawa

1990 - 2010

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Shoya Tomizawa (富沢 祥也, Tomizawa Shōya) (10 December 1990 – 5 September 2010) was a Japanese motorcycle racer. After a successful career in the All Japan Road Race Championship, he switched to MotoGP and competed in the 250cc class during 2009. In the 2010 season he rode in the newly created Moto2 class. Tomizawa won the first race of the new class, at Losail in Qatar, winning by nearly five seconds from Alex Debón and Jules Cluzel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shoya Tomizawa is the 868th most popular racing driver (down from 830th in 2019), the 2,570th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,998th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Japanese Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Shoya Tomizawa ranks 868 out of 1,080. Before him are Arthur Leclerc, Enrico Bertaggia, Monisha Kaltenborn, Franck Montagny, Gianmaria Bruni, and Dani Sordo. After him are Nicholas Latifi, Norberto Fontana, Don Branson, Carl Fogarty, Yvan Muller, and Franco Morbidelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1990, Shoya Tomizawa ranks 278. Before him are Lucas Till, Christophe Lemaitre, Wendie Renard, Kostas Sloukas, Romarinho, and Roy Smith. After him are Luis Advíncula, Mário Fernandes, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Masahiro Ishikawa, Jonny Brownlee, and Kirsten Zien. Among people deceased in 2010, Shoya Tomizawa ranks 479. Before him are Helen Wagner, Barbara Billingsley, Yvette Vickers, Teena Marie, Harry Schwarz, and Janusz Kurtyka. After him are Massamasso Tchangai, Edwin Morgan, Orlando Zapata, Bill Dixon, Adele Mara, and Nalini Jaywant.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shoya Tomizawa ranks 2,570 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroki Azuma (1966), Fumiya Suzuki (1998), Eisuke Nakanishi (1973), Rimi Natsukawa (1973), Genki Haraguchi (1991), and Daizen Maeda (1997). After him are Masashi Oguro (1980), Kentaro Sawada (1970), Kana Ueda (1980), Nobuhiro Ishizaki (1958), Kairi Sane (1988), and Saori Hara (1988).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Japan

Among racing drivers born in Japan, Shoya Tomizawa ranks 24. Before him are Sakon Yamamoto (1982), Masami Kuwashima (1950), Shinji Nakano (1971), Tetsuya Harada (1970), Kazuto Sakata (1966), and Toranosuke Takagi (1974). After him are Hideki Noda (1969), Toshi Arai (1966), Hiroshi Aoyama (1981), Shinya Nakano (1977), Haruchika Aoki (1976), and Nobuharu Matsushita (1993).

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