is a Japanese sprint canoeist born in
Yamanashi prefecture.
He won a bronze medal, along with his partner Keiji Mizumoto, in the men's kayak doubles (1000 m) at the
2010 Asian Games in
Guangzhou, China
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.
Watanabe qualified for the
men's K-2 200 metres at the
2012 Summer Olympics in
London
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by placing first at the
2011 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships in
Tehran, Iran
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. Watanabe and his partner
Momotaro Matsushita paddled to a second-place finish, and tenth overall in the B-final by twenty-four hundredths of a second (0.24) behind the Kazakh pair
Alexey Dergunov and Yevgeniy Alexeyev, posting their time of 35.739 seconds.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
1988 births
Japanese male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Japan
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Asian Games medalists in canoeing
Canoeists at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Sportspeople from Yamanashi Prefecture
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