1916 - 1944
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, Shigeo Arai ranks 49 out of 392. Before 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.
1914 - 2014
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 43
1930 - 2020
HPI: 44.72
Rank: 44
1882 - 1961
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 45
1926 - 2006
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 46
1881 - 1960
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 47
1965 - Present
HPI: 44.25
Rank: 48
1916 - 1944
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 49
1914 - 1995
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 50
1883 - 1954
HPI: 44.12
Rank: 51
1959 - Present
HPI: 44.06
Rank: 52
1909 - 1955
HPI: 44.04
Rank: 53
1900 - 1970
HPI: 43.94
Rank: 54
1924 - 2013
HPI: 43.84
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1916, Shigeo Arai ranks 235. Before 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 249. Before 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.
1916 - 1990
HPI: 44.56
Rank: 229
1916 - 1963
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 230
1916 - 2000
HPI: 44.46
Rank: 231
1916 - 1984
HPI: 44.33
Rank: 232
1916 - 1985
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 233
1916 - 1957
HPI: 44.26
Rank: 234
1916 - 1944
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 235
1916 - 1984
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 236
1916 - 1962
HPI: 44.12
Rank: 237
1916 - 1982
HPI: 44.03
Rank: 238
1916 - 1990
HPI: 43.91
Rank: 239
1916 - 2017
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 240
1916 - 2010
HPI: 43.77
Rank: 241
1869 - 1944
HPI: 44.93
Rank: 243
1867 - 1944
HPI: 44.92
Rank: 244
1872 - 1944
HPI: 44.92
Rank: 245
1901 - 1944
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 246
1874 - 1944
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 247
1864 - 1944
HPI: 44.41
Rank: 248
1916 - 1944
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 249
1880 - 1944
HPI: 43.99
Rank: 250
1879 - 1944
HPI: 43.84
Rank: 251
1885 - 1944
HPI: 43.74
Rank: 252
1881 - 1944
HPI: 43.71
Rank: 253
1901 - 1944
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 254
1890 - 1944
HPI: 43.44
Rank: 255
Among people born in Japan, Shigeo Arai ranks 1,300 out of 6,048. Before 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).
1949 - Present
HPI: 44.26
Rank: 1,294
1890 - 1968
HPI: 44.26
Rank: 1,295
1986 - Present
HPI: 44.24
Rank: 1,296
1941 - Present
HPI: 44.23
Rank: 1,297
1946 - Present
HPI: 44.22
Rank: 1,298
1949 - Present
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 1,299
1916 - 1944
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 1,300
1914 - 1995
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 1,301
1961 - Present
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 1,302
1941 - Present
HPI: 44.17
Rank: 1,303
1976 - Present
HPI: 44.15
Rank: 1,304
1969 - Present
HPI: 44.14
Rank: 1,305
1956 - 2011
HPI: 44.14
Rank: 1,306
Among swimmers born in Japan, Shigeo Arai ranks 3. Before 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).
1916 - 1989
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 1
1917 - 1996
HPI: 46.01
Rank: 2
1916 - 1944
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 3
1914 - 1995
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 4
1903 - 1986
HPI: 42.14
Rank: 5
1906 - 1966
HPI: 39.09
Rank: 6
1982 - Present
HPI: 34.61
Rank: 7
1967 - Present
HPI: 33.50
Rank: 8
1994 - Present
HPI: 29.40
Rank: 9
1990 - Present
HPI: 26.64
Rank: 10
1994 - Present
HPI: 26.46
Rank: 11
1984 - Present
HPI: 25.93
Rank: 12