Yumi Kajihara
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| Born | 10 April 1997 Saitama, Japan |
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| Discipline | Track cycling Road cycling |
| Role | Rider |
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Yumi Kajihara (梶原 悠未, Kajihara Yūmi, born 10 April 1997) is a Japanese female road racing and track cyclist. She represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics,[1] and won a silver medal in the women's omnium, becoming the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic medal in cycling.[2][3]
Career[]
As a junior, she competed on the road in the junior events at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships and 2014 UCI Road World Championships. She won the gold medal in the scratch and the silver medal in the team pursuit at the 2016 Asian Cycling Championships.[4][5] She is the reigning world champion in Women's omnium, having won gold in 2020.[6]
Career results[]
- 2016
- Asian Track Championships
- 1st
Scratch Race - 2nd
Team Pursuit (with Kisato Nakamura, Sakura Tsukagoshi and Minami Uwano
- 1st
- Track Clubs ACC Cup
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Points race
- 1st Team Sprint (With Takako Ishii)
- 2nd Scratch race
- 1st Omnium, Japan Track Cup
- 2017
- Asian Track Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Points Race
- 2nd Individual Pursuit
- 3rd
Madison (with )
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Individual Pursuit - 1st Points Race
- 1st
References[]
- ^ "Six Japanese cyclists selected for Tokyo 2020". www.insidethegames.biz. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
- ^ "Olympics: Yumi Kajihara wins women's omnium track cycling silver for Japan". Mainichi Daily News. 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Cycling Track KAJIHARA Yumi - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". .. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ "2016 Asia Cycling Championships: Entries list track cycling women" (PDF). cycling-championships.asi. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Yumi Kajihara". cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Kajihara wins dramatic omnium at World Track Cycling". www.insidethegames.biz. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
External links[]
- Yūmi Kajihara at Olympedia
- Yūmi Kajihara at Cycling Archives
- Yūmi Kajihara at ProCyclingStats
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