Yukiya Arashiro

is a Japanese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .

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. 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. By finishing the 2010 Giro d'Italia, he became the first Japanese person to finish two Grand Tour events. He recorded a third-place stage finish on the fifth stage, behind breakaway companions Jérôme Pineau and Julien Fouchard. He completed his third Tour de France in 2012 in 84th place—the highest placing of a Japanese person at that time —and earned the most combative award on Stage 4. He participated in the men's road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished in 48th place. 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 the Palais des Sports de Beaublanc in Limoges. Competing in the 2015 Vuelta a España, he became the first Japanese person to finish the three Grand Tours. He took part three further times in the Olympic road race, coming 27th (2016), 35th (2021), and 56th (2024).

Arashiro has completed all sixteen Grand Tours that he has started, with a best finish of 65th at the 2014 Tour de France and the 2015 Vuelta a España.

Major results

2005 National Under-23 Road Championships

9th Tour de Okinawa 2006 3rd Overall Tour du Limousin 3rd Tour de Okinawa 2007

1st Stage 7 Tour of Japan 2nd Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León 1st Mountains classification 2nd Tour du Jura 3rd Overall Tour de Hokkaido 1st Stage 4 3rd Tour de Okinawa 5th Japan Cup 7th Tour du Finistère 2008 1st Overall Tour de Okinawa 1st Stages 1 & 2 Asian Road Championships

10th Road race 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

4th Time trial 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 5th Overall Paris–Corrèze 10th Overall Tour du Limousin 2012

2013

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

9th Japan Cup

2017 Asian Road Championships

7th Road race 3rd Hong Kong Challenge 2018 Asian Road Championships

5th Road race

2019 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2022 National Road Championships

3rd Time trial 2023

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 2024 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline