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Sport
  
Swimming

Name
  
Shigeo Arai

Role
  
Freestyle swimmer


Shigeo Arai

Born
  
August 8, 1916

Died
  
July 19, 1944, Myanmar (Burma)

Olympic medals
  
Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

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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. Those Games were the only international competition for Arai, though he won three national titles in the 100 m and four in the 200 m freestyle between 1937 and 1940.

While serving in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, he was killed in action in Burma.

References

Shigeo Arai Wikipedia