Photo: Kentaro Iemoto from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
The long jump doesn't give you a co-star to lean on the way team sports do — it's just you, a runway and a sandpit, and however many centimetres of honest reckoning you can find. Daisuke Arakawa chose it, cleared eight metres in 2002 and won the national title in 2007 to jump at the World Championships in his home city of Osaka, which already tells you something. I find myself picturing someone who's more at home in a pre-dawn training block than on a talk show, someone who measures progress in centimetres rather than headlines. Osaka guys are supposed to be loud and funny, but I'd bet Arakawa is the exception — the quietly relentless type who just keeps showing up and putting in the work long after everyone else has gone home.
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Overview
Daisuke Arakawa is a Japanese track and field athlete born on September 19, 1981, in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. A long jumper who attended Doshisha University, he cleared 8.06 m at the 2002 Shizuoka International to become the ninth Japanese man over eight metres, and in 2007 won his first national title and was selected for the World Championships held in his home city of Osaka.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Daisuke Arakawa
- Name (Japanese)
- 荒川大輔
- Reading
- あらかわ だいすけ
- Born
- September 19, 1981 (age 45)
- Origin
- Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- Track and field athlete / Long jumper
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Rooster
2. Background
- University
- Doshisha University
3. Links
4. About this entry
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- Last updated
Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
Frequently asked questions
When was Daisuke Arakawa born?
Daisuke Arakawa was born on September 19, 1981 and is 45 years old.
Where is Daisuke Arakawa from?
Daisuke Arakawa is from Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
What does Daisuke Arakawa do?
Daisuke Arakawa works as Track and field athlete, Long jumper.
Where did Daisuke Arakawa study?
Daisuke Arakawa attended Doshisha University.
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