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Takumi Saito (race walker)

Olympic racewalker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ7678586 ↗
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Takumi Saito (西塔 拓己, Saitō Takumi) (born 23 March 1993 in Kaita, Hiroshima) is a Japanese former racewalker. He placed 25th at the 20 km walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and 5th at the 2013 World Championships.

Saito represented Aichi Steel. He retired from professional competition in February 2020.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Takumi Saito (race walker)” as olympic racewalker. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2012, 2013, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-03-23. The account is most persuasive where Takumi, Saito and race can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as olympic racewalker. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7678586. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2012, 2013 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Takumi Saito (race walker)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.