# Yukiya Arashiro

Yukiya Arashiro (新城幸也, Arashiro Yukiya, born 22 September 1984) is a Japanese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team Solution Tech–Vini Fantini.

## 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
       1st Time trial
       1st Road race
    9th Tour de Okinawa

### 2006

    3rd Overall Tour du Limousin
    3rd Tour de Okinawa

### 2007

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    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
       3rd Time trial
       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
       1st Road race
       4th Time trial
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    5th Overall Paris–Corrèze
    10th Overall Tour du Limousin

### 2012

    1st Overall Tour du Limousin
    Combativity award Stage 4 Tour de France

### 2013

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    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
    2nd Road race, Asian Road Championships
    9th Japan Cup
    Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France

### 2017

    Asian Road Championships
       2nd Team time trial
       7th Road race
    3rd Hong Kong Challenge

### 2018

    Asian Road Championships
       1st Team time trial
       5th Road race
    1st Overall Tour de Taiwan

### 2019

    2nd Road race, National Road Championships

### 2022

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       3rd Time trial

### 2023

    3rd Road race, Asian Road Championships
    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

### 2024

    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | 93 | — | — | — | 127 | — | — | — | — | — | 89 | 77 | — | 123 |
| Tour de France | 129 | 112 | — | 84 | 99 | 65 | — | 116 | 109 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| / Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — | 65 | 106 | — | — | 110 | — | 116 | — | |