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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigeo Arai has received more than 26,976 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Shigeo Arai is the 49th most popular swimmer (down from 27th in 2019), the 1,300th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,089th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Shigeo Arai ranks 49 out of 392Before him are Helen Johns, Jimmy McLane, Max Hainle, Nel van Vliet, Julius Frey, and Matt Biondi. After him are Hideko Maehata, Emil Rausch, Barbara Krause, Martha Norelius, Irene Guest, and Bill Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Shigeo Arai ranks 235Before him are Margaret Lockwood, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Kazimierz Brandys, Paul Felix Schmidt, Toni Branca, and Kurt Pettersén. After him are Yvon Petra, Karen Lachmann, Jakob Streitle, Edward Binns, John Kundla, and José Joaquín Trejos Fernández. Among people deceased in 1944, Shigeo Arai ranks 249Before him are Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Charles Dana Gibson, Octav Băncilă, Endre Steiner, Frank Knox, and Arthur Smith Woodward. After him are George Herriman, Adaviye Efendiyeva, Karel Hartmann, John Dill, Katri Vala, and Eoin O'Duffy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeo Arai ranks 1,300 out of 6,048Before him are Toyokazu Nomura (1949), Ichiya Kumagae (1890), Kamui Kobayashi (1986), Takehide Nakatani (1941), Hiroshi Ochiai (1946), and Mitsunori Fujiguchi (1949). After him are Hideko Maehata (1914), Noriyuki Abe (1961), Kim Eui-tae (1941), Daisuke Namikawa (1976), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Yoshiko Tanaka (1956).

Among SWIMMERS In Japan

Among swimmers born in Japan, Shigeo Arai ranks 3Before him are Yasuji Miyazaki (1916) and Kusuo Kitamura (1917). After him are Hideko Maehata (1914), Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Kosuke Kitajima (1982), Daichi Suzuki (1967), Daiya Seto (1994), Ryosuke Irie (1990), Kosuke Hagino (1994), and Takeshi Matsuda (1984).