is a Japanese

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who competed in the early to mid-1970s. He was eliminated in the repechages of the C-2 1000 m event at the

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. Four years later in

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, paired with

Atsunobu Ogata (born July 23, 1948) is a Japanese sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1970s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Cana ...

, Hata was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-2 1000 m event while being disqualified in the repechages of the C-2 500 m event.

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