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Toshiki Kuroiwa

Japanese bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ16845483 ↗
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Toshiki Kuroiwa (黒岩 俊喜) (born (1993-08-31)August 31, 1993 in Yokohama) is a Japanese bobsledder.

Kuroiwa competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Japan. He teamed with driver Hiroshi Suzuki, Shintaro Sato and Hisashi Miyazaki in the four-man event, finishing 26th.

Kuroiwa made his World Cup debut in December 2013. As of April 2014, his best finish is 19th, in a four-man event in 2012-13 at Lake Placid.

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This entry incorporates text from “Toshiki Kuroiwa” 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.