Yumi Kajihara (梶原 悠未, Kajihara Yūmi, born 10 April 1997) is a Japanese professional 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]
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| Born | 10 April 1997 Saitama, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career edit
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 edit
Track edit
- 2016
- Asian Track Championships
- 1st
Scratch - 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
- 1st Omnium, Japan Track Cup
- 2017
- Asian Track Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Points race
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 3rd
Madison (with Kie Furuyama)
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit - 1st Points Race
- 1st
Road edit
- 2014
- 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships
- Asian Road Championships
- 2nd
Time trial - 2nd Road race
- 2nd
- 2015
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- Asian Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 1st Road race
- 1st
- 2016
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 2017
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- Asian Road Championships
- 3rd
Time trial - 5th Road race
- 3rd
- 2018
- National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 1st
- Panorama Guizhou International Women's Road Cycling Race
- 1st Stage 2, 4 & 5
- 1st Points classification
- 7th Overall Tour of Zhoushan Island
- 2019
- 1st Overall The 60th Anniversary "Thai Cycling Association"
- 1st Stage 2
- Asian Road Championships
- 2nd Under-23 Time trial
- 8th Road race
- 2nd
- 3rd Overall Tour of Thailand
- 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
References edit
- ^ "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. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. 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 edit
- Yūmi Kajihara at UCI
- Yūmi Kajihara at Cycling Archives
- Yūmi Kajihara at ProCyclingStats
- Yūmi Kajihara at Cycling Quotient
- Yūmi Kajihara at CycleBase
- Yūmi Kajihara at Olympedia
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