Yumi Kajihara Explained

Yumi Kajihara
Honorific Suffix:OLY
Birth Date:10 April 1997
Birth Place:Saitama, Japan
Discipline:Track
Road
Role:Rider

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]

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

Track

2016
  • Asian Track Championships
  • 1st Scratch
  • 2nd Team pursuit (with Kisato Nakamura, Sakura Tsukagoshi and Minami Uwano
  • 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)
  • National Track Championships
  • 1st Individual pursuit
  • 1st Points Race

    Road

    2014
  • 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships
  • Asian Road Championships
  • 2nd Time trial
  • 2nd Road race
    2015
  • National Junior Road Championships
  • 1st Road race
  • 1st Time trial Asian Road Championships
  • 1st Time trial
  • 1st Road race
    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
    2018
  • National Under-23 Road Championships
  • 1st Time trial 3rd Road race
  • 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
  • 3rd Overall Tour of Thailand
  • 4th Time trial, National Road Championships

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: 2020-06-05. Six Japanese cyclists selected for Tokyo 2020. 2021-04-10. www.insidethegames.biz.
    2. Web site: 8 August 2021. Olympics: Yumi Kajihara wins women's omnium track cycling silver for Japan. 8 August 2021. Mainichi Daily News. en.
    3. Web site: Cycling Track KAJIHARA Yumi. dead. 2021-08-16. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. en-us. 16 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210816202116/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/cycling-track/athlete-profile-n1313875-kajihara-yumi.htm.
    4. Web site: 2016 Asia Cycling Championships: Entries list track cycling women. cycling-championships.asi. 1 February 2016.
    5. Web site: Yumi Kajihara. cyclingarchives.com. 1 February 2016.
    6. Web site: 28 February 2020. Kajihara wins dramatic omnium at World Track Cycling. 2021-08-16. www.insidethegames.biz.

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